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GM: Bob Gebhard (since 1991)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+3.3
WAB — wins above budget
-5.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
77–67 (0.535)
record · made playoffs
-10M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.4
roster fWAR
$35.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Larry Walker 28 FA-elig 131 4.6 5.0 -0.6
Kevin Ritz 30 FA-elig 31 3.1 0.4 +2.5
Curt Leskanic 27 pre-arb 76 2.7 0.1 +2.4
Vinny Castilla 27 arb 139 2.3 0.3 +1.9
Eric Young Sr. 28 arb 120 2.2 0.3 +1.9
Dante Bichette 31 FA-elig 139 1.8 3.4 -1.7
Steve Reed 30 arb 71 1.7 0.3 +1.4
Bill Swift 33 FA-elig 19 1.7 3.9 -2.3
Darren Holmes 29 arb 68 1.6 1.4 +0.1
Walt Weiss 31 FA-elig 137 1.5 2.3 -0.8
Bryan Rekar 23 pre-arb 15 1.1 0.1 +0.9
Andres Galarraga 34 FA-elig 143 1.1 4.0 -2.9
John Vander Wal 29 arb 105 0.8 0.3 +0.5
Joe Grahe 27 arb 17 0.7 0.6 +0.1
Marvin Freeman 32 FA-elig 22 0.5 1.9 -1.4
Bruce Ruffin 31 FA-elig 37 0.5 1.0 -0.5
Armando Reynoso 29 arb 20 0.5 0.3 +0.2
Mark Thompson 24 pre-arb 21 0.4 0.1 +0.3
Jayhawk Owens 26 pre-arb 18 0.3 0.1 +0.1
Ellis Burks 30 FA-elig 103 0.2 3.3 -3.2
Harvey Pulliam 27 – 5 0.1 – –
Bret Saberhagen↔ NYM 31 FA-elig 9 0.1 2.0 -1.9
Trenidad Hubbard 31 pre-arb 24 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Lance Painter 27 pre-arb 33 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Roger Bailey 24 pre-arb 39 0.1 0.1 -0.0
A.J. Sager 30 pre-arb 10 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Craig Counsell 24 – 3 0.0 – –
Omar Olivares↔ PHI 27 arb 12 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Quinton McCracken 24 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Mike Kingery 34 FA-elig 119 -0.1 0.7 -0.8
Pedro Castellano 25 – 4 -0.1 – –
David Nied 26 arb 2 -0.1 0.3 -0.4
Matt Nokes↔ BAL 31 FA-elig 10 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Jason Bates 24 pre-arb 116 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Jim Tatum 27 arb 34 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Bryan Hickerson↔ CHC 31 arb 18 -0.2 0.1 -0.4
Jorge Brito 29 pre-arb 18 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Juan Acevedo 25 pre-arb 17 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Mike Munoz 29 FA-elig 64 -0.4 0.3 -0.6
Joe Girardi 30 FA-elig 125 -0.7 1.9 -2.5
Roberto Mejia 23 – 23 -0.7 – –

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (90%). 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.