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GM: Alex Anthopoulos (since 2018)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+13.4
WAB — wins above budget
+2.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
97–65 (0.599)
record · made playoffs
-21M
surplus $M (value/$)
38.4
roster fWAR
$147.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Josh Donaldson 33 FA-elig 155 5.2 23.0 -5.9
Ronald Acuña Jr. 21 pre-arb 156 5.0 0.6 +15.9
Freddie Freeman 29 FA-elig 158 4.4 21.0 -6.6
Ozzie Albies 22 pre-arb 160 4.2 0.6 +13.2
Michael Soroka 21 pre-arb 29 3.8 0.5 +12.0
Max Fried 25 pre-arb 40 3.5 0.6 +10.8
Dansby Swanson 25 arb 127 1.9 0.6 +5.7
Tyler Flowers 33 FA-elig 85 1.4 4.0 +0.6
Julio Teheran 28 FA-elig 35 1.4 11.2 -6.7
Matt Joyce 34 FA-elig 129 1.3 1.2 +3.0
Luke Jackson 27 arb 71 1.3 0.6 +3.5
Adam Duvall 30 arb 41 1.0 2.9 +0.3
Ender Inciarte 28 arb 65 1.0 5.7 -2.6
Adeiny Hechavarría↔ NYM 30 FA-elig 24 1.0 0.1 +3.0
Kevin Gausman↔ CIN 28 FA-elig 16 0.9 4.8 -1.7
Brian McCann 35 FA-elig 85 0.9 2.0 +0.9
Dallas Keuchel 31 FA-elig 19 0.7 13.0 -10.6
Mark Melancon↔ SFG 34 FA-elig 23 0.7 5.0 -2.6
Nick Markakis 35 FA-elig 116 0.6 4.0 -2.0
Chris Martin↔ TEX 33 arb 20 0.6 0.8 +1.1
Mike Foltynewicz 27 arb 21 0.5 5.5 -3.9
Francisco Cervelli↔ PIT 33 FA-elig 14 0.3 3.4 -2.4
Sean Newcomb 26 pre-arb 55 0.3 0.6 +0.4
Jacob Webb 25 – 36 0.2 0.3 +0.2
Shane Greene↔ DET 30 arb 27 0.2 1.7 -1.1
Darren O'Day 36 FA-elig 8 0.1 9.0 -8.6
Josh Tomlin 34 FA-elig 51 0.1 1.2 -0.9
Charlie Culberson 30 FA-elig 108 0.1 1.4 -1.1
Jeremy Walker 24 – 6 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Billy Hamilton↔ KCR 28 FA-elig 26 0.1 0.9 -0.7
Austin Riley 22 – 80 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Jerry Blevins 35 FA-elig 45 -0.0 1.2 -1.3
John Ryan Murphy↔ ARI 28 FA-elig 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Huascar Ynoa 21 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Anthony Swarzak↔ SEA 33 FA-elig 44 -0.1 6.3 -6.5
Jesse Biddle↔ SEA 27 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Arodys Vizcaíno 28 FA-elig 4 -0.1 4.8 -5.0
A.J. Minter 25 pre-arb 36 -0.1 0.6 -0.9
Grant Dayton 31 arb 14 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Bryse Wilson 21 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Alex Jackson 23 – 4 -0.3 0.0 -0.9
Rafael Ortega 28 pre-arb 34 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Touki Toussaint 23 pre-arb 24 -0.3 0.3 -1.2
Kyle Wright 23 pre-arb 7 -0.3 0.6 -1.5
Dan Winkler 29 arb 27 -0.3 1.6 -2.6
Wes Parsons↔ COL 26 pre-arb 17 -0.3 0.3 -1.3
Chad Sobotka 25 pre-arb 32 -0.3 0.6 -1.7
Jonny Venters↔ WSN 34 FA-elig 9 -0.4 1.7 -3.0
Shane Carle 27 pre-arb 6 -0.4 0.6 -2.0
Johan Camargo 25 pre-arb 98 -0.6 0.6 -2.5

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.