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GM: Frank Wren (since 1999)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-10.0
WAB — wins above budget
+0.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-24M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.5
roster fWAR
$77.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Mussina 30 FA-elig 31 6.1 6.6 +1.1
Brady Anderson 35 FA-elig 150 5.2 5.7 +0.9
B.J. Surhoff 34 FA-elig 162 4.6 3.7 +2.1
Mike Bordick 33 FA-elig 160 4.4 3.1 +2.4
Albert Belle 32 FA-elig 161 3.6 11.9 -7.4
Charles Johnson 27 arb 135 3.1 3.6 +0.3
Cal Ripken Jr. 38 FA-elig 86 2.9 6.5 -2.9
Harold Baines↔ CLE 40 FA-elig 107 2.6 1.4 +1.9
Scott Erickson 31 FA-elig 34 1.9 6.1 -3.7
Will Clark 35 FA-elig 77 1.4 4.9 -3.2
Sidney Ponson 22 pre-arb 32 1.3 0.2 +1.4
Jeff Conine 33 FA-elig 139 1.2 2.0 -0.5
Juan Guzman↔ CIN 32 FA-elig 21 1.1 3.3 -2.0
Jason Johnson 25 pre-arb 22 1.0 0.2 +1.0
Jerry Hairston Jr. 23 pre-arb 50 1.0 0.2 +1.0
Doug Johns 31 arb 32 0.8 0.3 +0.7
Delino DeShields 30 FA-elig 96 0.7 3.7 -2.9
Rich Amaral 37 FA-elig 91 0.6 0.5 +0.3
Scott Kamieniecki 35 FA-elig 43 0.6 3.4 -2.6
B.J. Ryan↔ CIN 23 pre-arb 13 0.6 0.2 +0.5
Mike Timlin 33 FA-elig 62 0.3 2.2 -1.9
Jim Corsi↔ BOS 37 FA-elig 13 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Derrick May 30 FA-elig 26 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Jeff Reboulet 35 FA-elig 99 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Al Reyes↔ MIL 29 – 27 0.0 – –
Brian Falkenborg 21 – 2 0.0 – –
Jesse Orosco 42 FA-elig 65 0.0 0.8 -0.8
Lenny Webster↔ BOS 34 FA-elig 16 -0.1 0.6 -0.6
Tommy Davis 26 – 5 -0.1 – –
Jesse Garcia 25 pre-arb 17 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Ricky Bones 30 FA-elig 31 -0.1 0.8 -1.0
Heathcliff Slocumb↔ STL 33 FA-elig 10 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Gene Kingsale 22 arb 28 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Doug Linton 34 FA-elig 14 -0.3 0.4 -0.7
Gabe Molina 24 – 20 -0.3 – –
Mike Fetters 34 FA-elig 27 -0.3 0.8 -1.1
Arthur Rhodes 29 FA-elig 43 -0.4 2.2 -2.7
Ryan Minor 25 pre-arb 46 -0.4 0.2 -0.7
Matt Riley 19 – 3 -0.4 – –
Calvin Pickering 22 – 23 -0.4 – –
Rocky Coppinger↔ MIL 25 – 11 -0.4 – –
Mike Figga 28 – 41 -0.7 – –
Willis Otáñez↔ TOR 26 pre-arb 29 -0.7 0.1 -1.0

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (81%). 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.