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GM: John Hart (since 1992)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.6
WAB — wins above budget
+10.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
97–65 (0.599)
record · made playoffs
-11M
surplus $M (value/$)
49.9
roster fWAR
$74.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Manny Ramirez 27 FA-elig 147 7.5 4.3 +5.0
Roberto Alomar 31 FA-elig 159 7.3 7.0 +2.1
Omar Vizquel 32 FA-elig 144 6.0 3.0 +4.5
Kenny Lofton 32 FA-elig 120 4.8 7.5 -1.6
Jim Thome 28 FA-elig 146 4.2 8.2 -2.9
Bartolo Colon 26 pre-arb 32 3.8 0.6 +4.1
David Justice 33 FA-elig 133 3.2 7.0 -3.0
Charles Nagy 32 FA-elig 34 3.2 6.0 -2.0
Dave Burba 32 FA-elig 34 3.1 4.7 -0.7
Paul Shuey 28 arb 72 1.8 1.1 +1.2
Steve Karsay 27 FA-elig 50 1.6 0.5 +1.5
Einar Díaz 26 arb 119 1.2 0.2 +1.3
Jaret Wright 23 pre-arb 26 1.0 0.8 +0.4
Dwight Gooden 34 FA-elig 26 0.7 2.6 -1.7
Travis Fryman 30 FA-elig 85 0.7 5.2 -4.4
Jacob Cruz 26 arb 32 0.6 0.2 +0.6
Sean DePaula 25 pre-arb 11 0.5 0.2 +0.4
Chris Haney 30 FA-elig 13 0.5 0.6 +0.0
Richie Sexson 24 pre-arb 134 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Sandy Alomar Jr. 33 FA-elig 37 0.4 2.8 -2.3
Mark Langston 38 FA-elig 25 0.3 0.3 +0.1
Mike Jackson 34 FA-elig 72 0.3 2.1 -1.8
Wil Cordero 27 FA-elig 54 0.3 0.5 -0.2
Jeff Manto↔ NYY 34 – 12 0.2 – –
John McDonald 24 – 18 0.2 – –
David Riske 22 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Alex Ramirez 24 pre-arb 48 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Steve Reed 34 FA-elig 63 0.1 1.4 -1.2
Dave Roberts 27 pre-arb 41 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Tom Martin 29 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Jeff Tam↔ NYM 28 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Ricardo Rincon 29 pre-arb 59 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Tyler Houston↔ CHC 28 arb 13 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
Paul Wagner 31 – 3 -0.1 – –
Jim Poole↔ PHI 33 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Dave Stevens 29 – 5 -0.1 – –
Jerry Spradlin↔ SFG 32 FA-elig 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Tom Candiotti↔ OAK 42 FA-elig 7 -0.1 1.2 -1.3
Paul Assenmacher 38 FA-elig 55 -0.1 1.5 -1.6
Russell Branyan 23 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Jason Rakers 26 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Chris Turner 30 FA-elig 12 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Jolbert Cabrera 26 pre-arb 30 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Harold Baines↔ BAL 40 FA-elig 28 -0.2 0.4 -0.6
Mark Whiten 32 FA-elig 8 -0.2 0.5 -0.7
Jesse Levis 31 FA-elig 10 -0.3 0.4 -0.7
Pat Borders↔ TOR 36 FA-elig 6 -0.3 0.1 -0.5
Jim Brower 26 – 9 -0.3 – –
Rich DeLucia 34 – 6 -0.3 – –
Carlos Baerga↔ SDP 30 FA-elig 22 -0.5 0.2 -0.9
Enrique Wilson 25 pre-arb 113 -0.9 0.2 -1.3

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 of them (88%). 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 CLE
Kenny Lofton199142.5
Corey Kluber201034.6
Grady Sizemore200230.3
Carlos Carrasco200925.5
Travis Hafner200222.3
Carlos Santana200821.6
Michael Brantley200820.0
Shin-Soo Choo200619.2
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Jeff Kent199630.9
Brandon Phillips200630.1
Brian Giles199825.4
Von Hayes198222.3
Yandy Díaz201819.5
Rick Sutcliffe198417.2
Jeromy Burnitz199617.1
Sean Casey199815.9
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.