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GM: Alex Anthopoulos (since 2018)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+18.8
WAB — wins above budget
+20.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
104–58 (0.642)
record · made playoffs
+31M
surplus $M (value/$)
57.6
roster fWAR
$197.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ronald Acuña Jr. 25 arb 159 9.2 17.0 +19.3
Matt Olson 29 FA-elig 162 6.6 21.0 +5.2
Spencer Strider 24 pre-arb 32 5.5 1.0 +20.7
Austin Riley 26 arb 159 5.1 15.0 +5.2
Sean Murphy 28 arb 108 5.0 4.0 +15.6
Ozzie Albies 26 FA-elig 148 4.1 7.0 +9.3
Michael Harris II 22 pre-arb 138 3.9 5.0 +10.5
Marcell Ozuna 32 FA-elig 144 3.2 18.0 -5.3
Charlie Morton 39 FA-elig 30 2.7 20.0 -9.4
Orlando Arcia 28 FA-elig 139 2.4 2.3 +7.3
Max Fried 29 FA-elig 14 1.9 13.5 -6.1
Bryce Elder 24 pre-arb 31 1.8 0.7 +6.4
A.J. Minter 29 FA-elig 70 1.4 4.3 +1.4
Eddie Rosario 31 FA-elig 142 1.3 9.0 -3.8
Raisel Iglesias 33 FA-elig 58 1.0 16.0 -11.9
Nick Anderson 32 arb 35 0.9 0.9 +2.6
Jesse Chavez 39 FA-elig 36 0.7 1.2 +1.7
Travis d'Arnaud 34 FA-elig 74 0.7 8.0 -5.2
Joe Jiménez 28 FA-elig 59 0.5 2.8 -0.9
Allan Winans 27 – 6 0.5 0.0 +1.8
Pierce Johnson↔ COL 32 FA-elig 24 0.4 1.8 -0.0
Forrest Wall 27 – 15 0.4 0.2 +1.2
Nicky Lopez↔ KCR 28 arb 26 0.4 1.0 +0.4
Collin McHugh 36 FA-elig 41 0.3 5.0 -3.7
Kevin Pillar 34 FA-elig 81 0.3 3.0 -1.9
Kolby Allard 25 pre-arb 4 0.2 0.8 -0.1
Danny Young 29 – 8 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Sam Hilliard 29 arb 40 0.1 0.8 -0.4
Yonny Chirinos↔ TBR 29 arb 5 0.1 0.3 -0.0
Brad Hand↔ COL 33 FA-elig 20 0.1 1.0 -0.7
Michael Tonkin 33 FA-elig 45 0.1 0.8 -0.5
Jackson Stephens 29 FA-elig 5 0.1 0.7 -0.5
Darius Vines 25 – 5 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Jared Shuster 24 – 11 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Charlie Culberson 34 FA-elig 1 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Dylan Lee 28 pre-arb 24 0.0 0.7 -0.6
Nick Solak↔ DET 28 – 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Kyle Wright 27 arb 9 -0.0 0.8 -0.9
Daysbel Hernández 26 – 4 -0.0 0.3 -0.5
Lucas Luetge 36 FA-elig 12 -0.1 1.6 -1.8
Taylor Hearn↔ KCR 28 arb 1 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Eli White 29 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Ben Heller 31 arb 19 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Chadwick Tromp 28 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Kirby Yates 36 FA-elig 61 -0.1 6.0 -6.6
Braden Shewmake 25 – 2 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Dereck Rodríguez↔ MIN 31 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Ehire Adrianza 33 FA-elig 5 -0.2 1.0 -1.9
Luke Williams↔ LAD 26 pre-arb 7 -0.3 0.1 -1.3
AJ Smith-Shawver 20 – 6 -0.3 0.2 -1.4
Michael Soroka 25 arb 7 -0.4 2.8 -4.4
Vaughn Grissom 22 pre-arb 23 -0.5 0.1 -2.0
Dylan Dodd 25 – 7 -0.5 0.1 -2.2

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.