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GM: Alex Anthopoulos (since 2018)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.0 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+8.4 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
35–25 (0.583)
record · made playoffs
-21M
surplus $M (value/$)
16.7
roster fWAR
$143.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Freddie Freeman 30 FA-elig 60 3.0 22.0 -0.2
Marcell Ozuna 29 FA-elig 60 2.7 18.0 +1.4
Ronald Acuña Jr. 22 pre-arb 46 2.2 1.0 +15.0
Dansby Swanson 26 arb 60 2.1 3.1 +11.9
Travis d'Arnaud 31 FA-elig 44 1.9 8.0 +5.9
Max Fried 26 pre-arb 11 1.5 0.2 +10.9
Ian Anderson 22 – 6 1.1 0.1 +7.8
Adam Duvall 31 FA-elig 57 1.0 3.2 +4.0
Tyler Matzek 29 pre-arb 21 0.8 0.2 +5.4
Ozzie Albies 23 arb 29 0.7 1.0 +4.0
Chris Martin 34 FA-elig 19 0.5 7.0 -3.5
A.J. Minter 26 pre-arb 22 0.4 0.2 +3.0
Josh Tomlin 35 FA-elig 17 0.4 0.1 +3.1
Shane Greene 31 FA-elig 28 0.3 6.2 -3.8
Tyler Flowers 34 FA-elig 22 0.3 4.0 -1.6
Darren O'Day 37 FA-elig 19 0.3 2.2 +0.1
Mark Melancon 35 FA-elig 23 0.3 10.2 -8.2
Michael Soroka 22 pre-arb 3 0.3 0.2 +1.7
Bryse Wilson 22 pre-arb 6 0.2 0.1 +1.3
Grant Dayton 32 arb 18 0.1 0.7 +0.3
Jacob Webb 26 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.1 +0.9
Cole Hamels 36 FA-elig 1 0.1 18.0 -17.3
Luke Jackson 28 arb 19 0.1 1.8 -1.2
Johan Camargo 26 arb 35 0.1 1.7 -1.2
Austin Riley 23 pre-arb 51 0.1 0.2 +0.3
William Contreras 22 – 4 0.0 0.0 +0.3
Pablo Sandoval↔ SFG 33 FA-elig 1 0.0 0.0 +0.2
Chad Sobotka 26 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Alex Jackson 24 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Nick Markakis 36 FA-elig 37 0.0 4.0 -3.9
Huascar Ynoa 22 pre-arb 9 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Scott Schebler 29 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Cristian Pache 21 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Patrick Weigel 25 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Charlie Culberson 31 FA-elig 10 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Jhoulys Chacín 32 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.8
Chris Rusin 33 arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.8
Adeiny Hechavarría 31 FA-elig 27 -0.1 1.0 -1.9
Kyle Wright 24 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.2 -1.3
Tucker Davidson 24 – 1 -0.2 0.0 -1.2
Tommy Milone↔ BAL 33 FA-elig 3 -0.2 0.1 -1.3
Sean Newcomb 27 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.1 -1.7
Mike Foltynewicz 28 FA-elig 1 -0.3 6.4 -8.5
Robbie Erlin↔ PIT 29 – 7 -0.3 0.2 -2.5
Touki Toussaint 24 pre-arb 7 -0.4 0.1 -2.9
Matt Adams 31 – 16 -0.4 0.2 -3.3
Will Smith 30 FA-elig 18 -0.6 13.0 -17.1
Ender Inciarte 29 FA-elig 46 -0.7 7.7 -12.5

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.