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GM: Andy MacPhail (since 2008)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-13.2
WAB — wins above budget
-11.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
64–98 (0.395)
record
-26M
surplus $M (value/$)
18.0
roster fWAR
$63.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brian Roberts 31 FA-elig 159 3.5 8.0 +0.2
Gregg Zaun↔ TBR 38 FA-elig 56 2.4 0.9 +4.9
Nick Markakis 25 arb 161 2.1 3.4 +1.7
Brad Bergesen 23 pre-arb 19 2.0 0.4 +4.3
Koji Uehara 34 pre-arb 12 1.8 5.0 -0.7
Adam Jones 23 arb 119 1.5 0.4 +3.2
Jeremy Guthrie 30 arb 35 1.4 0.7 +2.6
Luke Scott 31 arb 128 1.3 2.4 +0.7
Nolan Reimold 25 – 104 1.1 – –
Felix Pie 24 pre-arb 101 1.0 0.4 +2.1
George Sherrill↔ LAD 32 arb 42 1.0 1.6 +0.7
Brian Matusz 22 – 8 0.9 – –
Matt Wieters 23 – 96 0.7 – –
Matt Albers 26 arb 56 0.7 0.4 +1.1
Cesar Izturis 29 FA-elig 114 0.5 2.4 -1.2
Rich Hill 29 arb 15 0.5 0.4 +0.8
Jason Berken 25 – 24 0.5 – –
Michael Aubrey 27 pre-arb 31 0.4 0.4 +0.6
Mark Hendrickson 35 FA-elig 53 0.3 1.5 -0.7
Jim Johnson 26 arb 64 0.3 0.4 +0.3
Melvin Mora 37 FA-elig 125 0.3 8.0 -7.3
Kam Mickolio 25 pre-arb 11 0.3 0.4 +0.2
Alberto Castillo 33 – 20 0.2 – –
Oscar Salazar↔ SDP 31 FA-elig 17 0.2 0.1 +0.3
Danys Baez 31 FA-elig 59 0.1 7.2 -6.8
Ryan Freel↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 9 0.1 0.9 -0.7
Sean Henn↔ MIN 28 arb 6 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Chris Lambert↔ DET 26 – 4 -0.0 – –
Cla Meredith↔ SDP 26 arb 29 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Dennis Sarfate 28 arb 20 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Justin Turner 24 – 12 -0.0 – –
Chad Moeller 34 FA-elig 30 -0.1 0.8 -0.9
Guillermo Rodriguez 31 – 7 -0.1 – –
Adam Eaton↔ COL 31 – 8 -0.1 – –
Chris Waters 28 – 5 -0.1 – –
Radhames Liz 25 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Chris Tillman 21 – 12 -0.2 – –
Robert Andino 25 arb 78 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Jeff Fiorentino 26 – 24 -0.2 – –
Chris Ray 27 arb 46 -0.3 0.8 -1.5
Jamie Walker 37 FA-elig 22 -0.4 4.5 -5.4
Bob McCrory 27 – 7 -0.4 – –
Alfredo Simon 28 pre-arb 2 -0.4 0.4 -1.3
Brian Bass 27 pre-arb 48 -0.5 0.4 -1.5
David Hernandez 24 pre-arb 20 -0.6 0.4 -1.8
Luis Montanez 27 pre-arb 29 -0.6 0.4 -1.9
Aubrey Huff↔ DET 32 FA-elig 110 -1.2 5.9 -8.7
Ty Wigginton 31 FA-elig 122 -1.6 2.5 -6.2

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (73%). 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.