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GM: Alex Anthopoulos (since 2018)

2021 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.9
WAB — wins above budget
+3.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
88–73 (0.547)
record · World Series champions
-16M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.2
roster fWAR
$143.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Austin Riley 24 pre-arb 160 5.1 0.6 +15.8
Freddie Freeman 31 FA-elig 159 4.7 22.0 -6.6
Max Fried 27 arb 32 4.5 3.5 +11.1
Charlie Morton 37 FA-elig 34 4.4 15.0 -0.7
Ronald Acuña Jr. 23 arb 82 4.4 5.0 +9.2
Ozzie Albies 24 arb 156 3.7 3.0 +8.9
Dansby Swanson 27 arb 160 3.3 6.0 +4.7
Huascar Ynoa 23 pre-arb 18 1.7 0.6 +5.0
Ian Anderson 23 pre-arb 24 1.6 0.6 +4.7
A.J. Minter 27 arb 61 1.3 1.3 +2.8
Jorge Soler↔ KCR 29 FA-elig 55 1.2 3.0 +0.9
Adam Duvall↔ MIA 32 FA-elig 55 1.2 1.1 +2.7
Tyler Matzek 30 pre-arb 69 1.1 0.6 +2.8
Travis d'Arnaud 32 FA-elig 60 0.9 8.0 -5.0
Jesse Chavez 37 FA-elig 30 0.9 0.3 +2.7
Eddie Rosario↔ CLE 29 FA-elig 33 0.7 2.4 -0.1
Guillermo Heredia 30 arb 120 0.7 1.0 +1.1
Kyle Muller 23 – 9 0.6 0.1 +2.0
Luke Jackson 29 FA-elig 71 0.6 1.9 +0.1
Ehire Adrianza 31 FA-elig 109 0.6 1.5 +0.3
Chris Martin 35 FA-elig 46 0.5 7.0 -5.5
Will Smith 31 FA-elig 71 0.4 13.0 -11.7
Joc Pederson↔ CHC 29 FA-elig 64 0.4 2.1 -0.9
Sean Newcomb 28 pre-arb 32 0.3 0.4 +0.4
Tucker Davidson 25 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.4 +0.0
Jonathan Lucroy↔ WSN 35 – 2 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Drew Smyly 32 FA-elig 32 0.1 11.0 -10.8
Jacob Webb 27 pre-arb 34 0.1 0.3 -0.0
Edgar Santana 29 pre-arb 41 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Grant Dayton 33 arb 13 0.0 0.9 -0.9
Josh Tomlin 36 FA-elig 36 -0.0 1.0 -1.0
Ty Tice↔ TOR 24 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Dylan Lee 26 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Jesse Biddle 29 arb 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Sean Kazmar Jr. 36 – 3 -0.1 – –
Carl Edwards Jr.↔ TOR 29 FA-elig 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Ender Inciarte 30 FA-elig 52 -0.1 8.7 -8.9
Bryse Wilson↔ PIT 23 – 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Pablo Sandoval 34 FA-elig 69 -0.1 1.0 -1.3
William Contreras 23 pre-arb 52 -0.1 0.3 -0.7
Jay Flaa↔ BAL 29 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Spencer Strider 22 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Abraham Almonte 32 FA-elig 64 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Jeff Mathis 38 FA-elig 3 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Kyle Wright 25 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Marcell Ozuna 30 FA-elig 48 -0.2 12.0 -12.8
Orlando Arcia↔ MIL 26 arb 32 -0.3 1.8 -2.6
Alex Jackson↔ MIA 25 – 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Shane Greene↔ LAD 32 – 19 -0.3 0.8 -1.7
Touki Toussaint 25 pre-arb 11 -0.3 0.6 -1.5
Johan Camargo 27 arb 15 -0.3 1.4 -2.5
Stephen Vogt↔ ARI 36 FA-elig 26 -0.4 1.2 -2.4
Richard Rodríguez↔ PIT 31 arb 27 -0.5 0.7 -2.5
Nate Jones↔ LAD 35 FA-elig 12 -0.6 0.1 -1.9
Cristian Pache 22 pre-arb 22 -0.6 0.2 -2.1
Kevan Smith↔ TBR 33 – 30 -0.6 0.2 -2.3

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 55 of them (98%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

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.