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GM: Ed Lynch (since 1995)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.0
WAB — wins above budget
-0.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
73–71 (0.507)
record
-2M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.6
roster fWAR
$31.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Sammy Sosa 26 FA-elig 144 5.2 4.3 +0.7
Mark Grace 31 FA-elig 143 4.7 4.4 +0.1
Brian McRae 27 arb 137 3.6 2.6 +0.8
Jaime Navarro 28 FA-elig 29 3.5 1.3 +2.0
Frank Castillo 26 arb 29 2.4 0.2 +2.1
Luis Gonzalez↔ HOU 27 arb 77 2.1 0.9 +1.2
Scott Servais↔ HOU 28 arb 52 2.0 0.2 +1.7
Jim Bullinger 29 arb 25 1.5 0.2 +1.3
Kevin Foster 26 pre-arb 33 1.3 0.1 +1.1
José Hernández 25 arb 93 1.1 0.1 +1.0
Steve Trachsel 24 pre-arb 30 1.1 0.2 +0.9
Rick Wilkins↔ HOU 28 arb 50 0.9 1.1 -0.3
Ozzie Timmons 24 pre-arb 77 0.8 0.1 +0.7
Todd Haney 29 arb 25 0.7 0.1 +0.6
Scott Bullett 26 arb 104 0.7 0.1 +0.6
Shawon Dunston 32 FA-elig 127 0.5 3.8 -3.3
Randy Myers 32 FA-elig 57 0.4 4.2 -3.8
Mark Parent↔ PIT 33 FA-elig 12 0.4 0.0 +0.3
Joe Kmak 32 pre-arb 19 0.4 0.1 +0.2
Mike Morgan↔ STL 35 FA-elig 4 0.3 0.6 -0.3
Bryan Hickerson↔ COL 31 arb 38 0.3 0.3 +0.0
Rey Sanchez 27 arb 114 0.3 0.7 -0.4
Terry Adams 22 pre-arb 18 0.3 0.1 +0.1
Rich Garces↔ MIA 24 arb 7 0.1 0.0 +0.1
Mike Perez 30 arb 68 0.1 0.3 -0.3
Dave Swartzbaugh 27 – 7 0.1 – –
Kevin Roberson 27 – 32 0.1 – –
Mike Walker 28 FA-elig 42 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Tom Edens 34 – 5 -0.0 – –
Matt Franco 25 pre-arb 16 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Roberto Rivera 26 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Larry Casian 29 arb 42 -0.1 0.2 -0.2
Tanyon Sturtze 24 – 2 -0.1 – –
Anthony Young 29 arb 32 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
Mike Hubbard 24 pre-arb 15 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Steve Buechele↔ TEX 33 – 32 -0.2 – –
Chris Nabholz 28 arb 34 -0.2 0.3 -0.5
Karl Rhodes↔ BOS 26 – 13 -0.3 – –
Turk Wendell 28 pre-arb 43 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Todd Pratt 28 arb 25 -0.6 0.2 -0.8
Willie Banks↔ LAD 26 arb 10 -0.7 0.1 -0.7
Howard Johnson 34 FA-elig 87 -1.2 0.3 -1.5
Todd Zeile↔ STL 29 FA-elig 79 -1.3 2.6 -3.8

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (86%). 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 CHC
Sammy Sosa199260.7
Ryne Sandberg198248.2
Anthony Rizzo201231.1
Aramis Ramírez200325.0
Kyle Hendricks201224.4
Derrek Lee200321.4
Jake Arrieta201319.6
Rick Sutcliffe198417.2
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Rafael Palmeiro198842.3
Dontrelle Willis200220.7
Dennis Eckersley198719.3
Ricky Nolasco200517.5
Jon Garland199817.2
Chris Archer201116.9
Gleyber Torres201615.9
Josh Donaldson200813.8
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.