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GM: Roland Hemond (since 1988)

1992 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.9
WAB — wins above budget
+11.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
89–73 (0.549)
record
+9M
surplus $M (value/$)
42.7
roster fWAR
$24.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Mussina 23 pre-arb 32 5.3 0.2 +4.0
Brady Anderson 28 arb 159 5.3 0.4 +3.7
Mike Devereaux 29 arb 156 4.7 1.0 +2.7
Cal Ripken Jr. 31 FA-elig 162 3.7 2.1 +0.8
Chris Hoiles 27 arb 96 3.3 0.2 +2.4
Rick Sutcliffe 36 FA-elig 36 3.0 2.4 -0.1
Leo Gomez 26 pre-arb 137 2.7 0.1 +2.0
Randy Milligan 30 arb 137 2.3 1.2 +0.6
Arthur Rhodes 22 pre-arb 15 2.0 0.1 +1.5
Ben McDonald 24 arb 35 2.0 0.5 +1.0
Gregg Olson 25 arb 59 1.6 1.4 -0.2
Todd Frohwirth 29 arb 65 1.1 0.3 +0.6
Chito Martinez 26 pre-arb 83 1.0 0.1 +0.6
Glenn Davis 31 FA-elig 106 1.0 3.4 -2.7
Jeff Tackett 26 pre-arb 65 0.9 0.1 +0.6
Tim Hulett Sr. 32 FA-elig 57 0.9 0.4 +0.3
Storm Davis 30 FA-elig 48 0.8 2.6 -2.0
Craig Lefferts↔ SDP 34 FA-elig 5 0.8 0.3 +0.3
Alan Mills 25 pre-arb 35 0.7 0.1 +0.4
Billy Ripken 27 arb 111 0.4 0.7 -0.4
Joe Orsulak 30 FA-elig 117 0.3 1.3 -1.0
Mark Parent 30 FA-elig 17 0.3 0.2 +0.0
Bob Milacki 27 arb 23 0.2 1.2 -1.0
Pat Clements↔ SDP 30 FA-elig 23 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Sam Horn 28 arb 63 0.1 0.7 -0.6
Mark Williamson 32 arb 12 0.1 0.9 -0.8
Jim Poole 26 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.1 -0.1
Tommy Shields 27 – 2 0.0 – –
Jack Voigt 26 – 1 0.0 – –
Jose Mesa↔ CLE 26 arb 13 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Manny Alexander 21 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Steve Scarsone↔ PHI 26 – 11 -0.0 – –
Richie Lewis 26 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Rick Dempsey 42 FA-elig 8 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Mark McLemore 27 FA-elig 101 -0.2 0.3 -0.5
Luis Mercedes 24 pre-arb 23 -0.4 0.1 -0.4
Mike Flanagan 40 FA-elig 42 -0.4 0.6 -0.9
David Segui 25 pre-arb 115 -0.8 0.1 -0.8

38 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (92%). 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 BAL
Brady Anderson198833.0
Adam Jones200829.6
Melvin Mora200026.9
Chris Hoiles198824.8
Scott Erickson199516.4
J. J. Hardy201014.3
Randy Milligan198811.9
Mike Devereaux198911.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Dennis Martínez198622.5
Jake Arrieta201319.6
Bryn Smith197716.4
Mickey Tettleton199114.4
Eduardo Rodríguez201414.3
Mike Yastrzemski201911.3
Eddie Murray198810.8
José Mesa19929.1
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.