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GM: Syd Thrift (since 2000)

2000 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-12.4
WAB — wins above budget
-11.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
-37M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.3
roster fWAR
$76.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Mussina 31 FA-elig 34 6.4 6.8 +2.2
Sidney Ponson 23 pre-arb 32 3.2 0.4 +4.1
Charles Johnson↔ CHW 28 FA-elig 84 3.1 3.0 +1.3
Delino DeShields 31 FA-elig 151 2.5 4.2 -0.7
B.J. Surhoff↔ ATL 35 FA-elig 103 2.2 2.9 +0.2
Pat Rapp 32 FA-elig 31 2.2 0.8 +2.4
Mike Bordick↔ NYM 34 FA-elig 100 1.8 1.9 +0.6
Brady Anderson 36 FA-elig 141 1.7 7.1 -4.8
Will Clark↔ STL 36 FA-elig 79 1.6 3.6 -1.4
Jose Mercedes 29 – 36 1.5 – –
Cal Ripken Jr. 39 FA-elig 83 1.3 6.3 -4.5
Buddy Groom 34 FA-elig 70 1.1 1.8 -0.2
Brook Fordyce↔ CHW 30 arb 53 1.0 0.4 +1.1
Jerry Hairston Jr. 24 pre-arb 49 1.0 0.2 +1.2
Albert Belle 33 FA-elig 141 0.9 12.9 -11.6
Melvin Mora↔ NYM 28 pre-arb 53 0.6 0.1 +0.7
Chris Richard↔ STL 26 pre-arb 56 0.5 0.2 +0.6
Chuck McElroy 32 FA-elig 43 0.5 1.4 -0.8
Luis Matos 21 pre-arb 72 0.4 0.2 +0.4
Ryan Kohlmeier 23 pre-arb 25 0.4 0.2 +0.4
Jeff Conine 34 FA-elig 119 0.4 2.5 -2.0
Scott Erickson 32 FA-elig 17 0.3 6.6 -6.2
Harold Baines↔ CHW 41 FA-elig 72 0.2 1.5 -1.3
Willie Morales 27 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Mike Kinkade↔ NYM 27 – 3 0.1 – –
Rich Amaral 38 FA-elig 30 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Luis Rivera↔ ATL 22 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Jesse Garcia 26 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Fernando Lunar↔ ATL 23 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Gabe Molina↔ ATL 25 – 9 -0.1 – –
Lesli Brea 26 – 6 -0.1 – –
Mike Timlin↔ STL 34 FA-elig 37 -0.1 2.5 -2.7
Carlos Casimiro 23 – 2 -0.1 – –
Al Reyes↔ LAD 30 arb 13 -0.2 0.4 -0.7
Darren Holmes↔ ARI 34 FA-elig 5 -0.2 0.5 -0.8
John Parrish 22 – 8 -0.2 – –
B.J. Ryan 24 pre-arb 42 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Greg Myers 34 FA-elig 43 -0.2 1.2 -1.5
Ivanon Coffie 23 – 23 -0.2 – –
Jay Spurgeon 23 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Jason Johnson 26 arb 25 -0.3 0.3 -0.7
Karim Garcia↔ DET 24 arb 8 -0.3 0.3 -0.8
Mark Lewis↔ CIN 30 FA-elig 71 -0.4 0.5 -1.1
Tim Worrell↔ CHC 32 FA-elig 5 -0.4 0.1 -0.6
Mike Trombley 33 FA-elig 75 -0.4 2.2 -2.9
Trenidad Hubbard↔ ATL 36 FA-elig 31 -0.5 0.1 -0.9
Calvin Maduro 25 arb 15 -0.6 0.2 -1.1
Alan Mills↔ LAD 33 FA-elig 23 -0.7 1.3 -2.2
Gene Kingsale 23 arb 26 -0.7 0.2 -1.2
Ryan Minor 26 – 32 -1.3 – –

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 of them (84%). 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.