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GM: Roland Hemond (since 1988)

1994 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.5
WAB — wins above budget
+10.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
63–49 (0.562)
record
-1M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.8
roster fWAR
$39.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Cal Ripken Jr. 33 FA-elig 112 4.6 5.5 -0.2
Rafael Palmeiro 29 FA-elig 111 4.6 5.4 -0.1
Mike Mussina 25 arb 24 3.4 0.8 +3.2
Chris Hoiles 29 arb 99 3.3 2.0 +1.8
Brady Anderson 30 FA-elig 111 3.0 3.1 +0.4
Ben McDonald 26 arb 24 3.0 2.7 +0.8
Leo Gomez 28 arb 84 2.8 0.6 +2.6
Jamie Moyer 31 FA-elig 23 1.9 0.7 +1.5
Mark Eichhorn 33 FA-elig 43 1.6 0.6 +1.3
Tim Hulett Sr. 34 FA-elig 36 1.2 0.6 +0.8
Mark McLemore 29 FA-elig 104 1.0 1.0 +0.1
Jeffrey Hammonds 23 pre-arb 68 0.9 0.1 +0.8
Harold Baines 35 FA-elig 94 0.8 1.9 -1.0
Lee Smith 36 FA-elig 41 0.8 2.0 -1.1
Arthur Rhodes 24 arb 10 0.5 0.2 +0.3
Sid Fernandez 31 FA-elig 19 0.3 3.3 -2.9
Armando Benitez 21 pre-arb 3 0.3 0.1 +0.3
Mike Oquist 26 pre-arb 15 0.3 0.1 +0.2
Mark Williamson 34 FA-elig 28 0.3 0.3 -0.1
Jeff Tackett 28 arb 26 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Jack Voigt 28 pre-arb 59 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Dwight Smith↔ ANA 30 arb 28 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Alan Mills 27 arb 47 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Scott Klingenbeck 23 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Damon Buford 24 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Tom Bolton 32 – 22 -0.1 – –
Mark Smith 24 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Jim Poole 28 arb 38 -0.1 0.3 -0.4
Chris Sabo 32 FA-elig 68 -0.2 2.0 -2.2
Brad Pennington 25 pre-arb 8 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Lonnie Smith 38 FA-elig 35 -0.4 0.8 -1.2
Mike Devereaux 31 FA-elig 85 -1.2 3.4 -4.8

32 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 31 of them (97%). 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.