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President of baseball ops: John Hart (since 2015) · GM: John Coppolella (since 2016)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-9.4
WAB — wins above budget
-10.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
72–90 (0.444)
record
-46M
surplus $M (value/$)
23.2
roster fWAR
$124.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Freddie Freeman 27 FA-elig 117 4.5 20.5 -5.3
Tyler Flowers 31 FA-elig 99 4.3 3.0 +11.5
Ender Inciarte 26 arb 158 4.0 2.7 +10.9
Johan Camargo 23 – 82 1.6 0.4 +5.1
Jaime García↔ MIN 30 FA-elig 18 1.6 8.0 -2.8
Ozzie Albies 20 – 57 1.5 0.2 +4.9
R.A. Dickey 42 FA-elig 31 1.4 7.5 -2.7
Mike Foltynewicz 25 arb 29 1.3 0.5 +4.0
Kurt Suzuki 33 FA-elig 81 1.1 1.5 +2.4
Julio Teheran 26 FA-elig 37 0.9 6.3 -3.1
Brandon Phillips↔ ANA 36 FA-elig 120 0.9 12.1 -8.9
Sean Newcomb 24 – 19 0.9 0.3 +2.7
Luiz Gohara 20 pre-arb 5 0.9 0.1 +2.8
Nick Markakis 33 FA-elig 160 0.7 11.0 -8.5
Lane Adams 27 pre-arb 85 0.7 0.3 +1.9
Arodys Vizcaíno 26 FA-elig 62 0.7 1.6 +0.6
Sam Freeman 30 pre-arb 58 0.6 0.4 +1.7
A.J. Minter 23 – 16 0.6 0.1 +1.9
Matt Adams↔ STL 28 arb 100 0.5 2.1 -0.5
Dan Winkler 27 pre-arb 16 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Rex Brothers 29 arb 27 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Jim Johnson 34 FA-elig 61 0.2 5.0 -4.4
Akeel Morris 24 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Max Fried 23 – 10 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Chase d'Arnaud↔ BOS 30 FA-elig 11 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Luke Jackson 25 pre-arb 43 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Jason Hursh 25 pre-arb 9 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Lucas Sims 23 – 14 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Tony Sanchez 29 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Chaz Roe↔ TBR 30 arb 3 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Aaron Blair 25 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Bartolo Colon↔ MIN 44 FA-elig 13 -0.1 5.8 -6.0
David Freitas 28 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Anthony Recker 33 FA-elig 6 -0.1 0.8 -1.2
Danny Santana↔ MIN 26 arb 69 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Matt Wisler 24 pre-arb 20 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Sean Rodríguez↔ PIT 32 FA-elig 15 -0.1 1.6 -2.1
Micah Johnson 26 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.5 -1.0
Eric O'Flaherty 32 FA-elig 22 -0.2 1.2 -2.0
Ian Krol 26 arb 51 -0.3 0.9 -1.8
Jason Motte 35 FA-elig 46 -0.4 0.5 -1.9
José Ramírez 27 arb 68 -0.4 0.5 -2.0
Dansby Swanson 23 pre-arb 144 -0.4 0.5 -2.0
Josh Collmenter 31 FA-elig 11 -0.5 1.2 -2.8
Rio Ruiz 23 pre-arb 53 -0.6 0.3 -2.2
Jace Peterson 27 arb 89 -0.6 0.6 -2.5
Emilio Bonifácio 32 FA-elig 38 -0.6 1.2 -3.2
Adonis García 32 pre-arb 52 -0.7 0.5 -3.0
Matt Kemp 32 FA-elig 115 -1.0 21.8 -25.3

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR). Green = produced more value than paid (bargain); red = paid more than produced. Service: pre-arb (<3 yr) / arb (3–6) / FA-eligible (6+). Click headers to sort.

History: front-office performance & develop-vs-buy (1985–2024)

Trade ledger (realized WAR, all-time)

Best acquisitions
PlayerYearWAR for ATL
John Smoltz198781.6
Max Fried201420.1
Dansby Swanson201516.1
Gary Sheffield200212.1
Ender Inciarte201511.4
Fred McGriff199311.2
Charlie Leibrandt19899.9
Denny Neagle19968.6
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Adam Wainwright200352.6
Elvis Andrus200729.8
Brook Jacoby198318.1
Ryan Klesko199916.6
William Contreras202216.4
Duane Ward198614.9
Andrelton Simmons201514.6
Nick Ahmed201312.9
Rosternomics — quantifying front-office skill, attribution-clean. Follow @rosternomics on X. Decision-makers on record back to 1933; resource-controlled metrics (WAR & payroll) cover 1985–2026.
Data: FanGraphs (WAR), Baseball-Reference & the Chadwick Bureau register (rosters, IDs), the Lahman Database, Baseball America prospect rankings (via The Baseball Cube), and public payroll records. Transaction and trade data was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Executive birth/death data via Wikidata (CC0); bios are original. Emoji graphics by OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).
All figures are franchise-level outcomes credited to the decision-maker in the acquisition year — not solely attributable to one executive.