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GM: Bob Gebhard (since 1991)

1994 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-3.4
WAB — wins above budget
-13.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
53–64 (0.453)
record
-9M
surplus $M (value/$)
12.5
roster fWAR
$23.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Marvin Freeman 31 FA-elig 19 2.1 0.5 +1.9
Andres Galarraga 33 FA-elig 103 1.7 3.9 -1.8
Dante Bichette 30 FA-elig 116 1.5 2.9 -1.1
Mike Kingery 33 FA-elig 105 1.5 0.2 +1.5
Ellis Burks 29 FA-elig 42 1.2 2.3 -0.9
Charlie Hayes 29 FA-elig 113 0.9 3.1 -2.0
David Nied 25 pre-arb 22 0.8 0.2 +0.8
Eric Young Sr. 27 pre-arb 90 0.8 0.2 +0.7
Kevin Ritz 29 arb 15 0.8 0.2 +0.7
Bruce Ruffin 30 FA-elig 56 0.7 0.8 +0.0
John Vander Wal 28 arb 91 0.6 0.2 +0.5
Lance Painter 26 pre-arb 15 0.6 0.1 +0.5
Mike Harkey 27 FA-elig 24 0.5 0.6 -0.1
Nelson Liriano 30 FA-elig 87 0.5 0.3 +0.3
Armando Reynoso 28 arb 9 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Curt Leskanic 26 pre-arb 8 0.3 0.1 +0.2
Greg Harris 30 FA-elig 29 0.3 1.9 -1.6
Kent Bottenfield↔ SFG 25 pre-arb 15 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Joe Girardi 29 arb 93 0.2 1.0 -0.8
Jayhawk Owens 25 pre-arb 6 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Willie Blair 28 arb 47 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Roberto Mejia 22 pre-arb 38 0.1 0.1 -0.1
Mike Munoz 28 arb 57 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Trenidad Hubbard 30 pre-arb 18 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Ty Van Burkleo 30 – 2 -0.0 – –
Vinny Castilla 26 arb 52 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Marcus Moore 23 pre-arb 29 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Bruce Walton 31 – 4 -0.1 – –
Steve Reed 29 pre-arb 61 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Jim Czajkowski 30 – 5 -0.2 – –
Howard Johnson 33 FA-elig 93 -0.2 1.7 -2.0
Mark Thompson 23 pre-arb 2 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Chris Jones 28 arb 21 -0.3 0.2 -0.6
Darren Holmes 28 arb 29 -0.4 0.7 -1.2
Danny Sheaffer 32 FA-elig 44 -0.6 0.2 -0.8
Walt Weiss 30 FA-elig 110 -0.9 0.6 -1.6

36 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 33 of them (92%). 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 COL
Carlos González200824.7
Germán Márquez201619.1
Jorge De La Rosa200813.1
DJ LeMahieu201113.1
Pedro Astacio19978.3
Brian Fuentes20017.7
Rafael Betancourt20095.9
Tyler Chatwood20115.8
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Chone Figgins200122.2
Nolan Arenado202118.3
Andy Ashby199317.7
Mark Canha201410.3
Darryl Kile19999.7
Juan Pierre20029.4
Everth Cabrera20084.5
Ubaldo Jiménez20114.4
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.