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GM: Joe Klein (since 1995)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-13.2
WAB — wins above budget
-22.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
60–84 (0.417)
record
-23M
surplus $M (value/$)
11.0
roster fWAR
$34.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Travis Fryman 26 arb 144 3.5 4.2 -0.8
David Wells↔ CIN 32 FA-elig 18 2.1 1.4 +0.7
Felipe Lira 23 pre-arb 37 1.7 0.1 +1.5
Chad Curtis 26 arb 144 1.6 1.9 -0.4
Lou Whitaker 38 FA-elig 84 1.3 3.8 -2.5
Mike Henneman↔ HOU 33 FA-elig 29 1.3 2.8 -1.6
Brian Bohanon 26 arb 52 1.2 0.2 +1.0
Sean Bergman 25 pre-arb 28 1.1 0.1 +0.9
Jose Lima 22 pre-arb 15 0.9 0.1 +0.8
Cecil Fielder 31 FA-elig 136 0.7 9.2 -8.5
John Doherty 28 arb 48 0.7 0.4 +0.3
Alan Trammell 37 FA-elig 74 0.7 1.3 -0.7
Kirk Gibson 38 FA-elig 70 0.6 1.3 -0.7
Bobby Higginson 24 pre-arb 131 0.4 0.1 +0.3
Mike Christopher 31 arb 36 0.4 0.2 +0.2
Ron Tingley 36 FA-elig 54 0.4 0.3 +0.1
Greg Gohr 27 pre-arb 10 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Kevin Wickander↔ MIL 30 FA-elig 21 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Tony Clark 23 – 27 0.1 – –
John Flaherty 27 arb 112 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Dwayne Henry 33 – 10 0.1 – –
Mike Moore 35 FA-elig 25 0.0 3.3 -3.3
Rudy Pemberton 25 – 12 -0.0 – –
Pat Ahearne 25 – 4 -0.0 – –
Sean Whiteside 24 – 2 -0.1 – –
Clint Sodowsky 22 – 6 -0.1 – –
Mike Myers↔ MIA 26 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
C.J. Nitkowski↔ CIN 22 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.1 -0.2
Franklin Stubbs 34 FA-elig 62 -0.2 0.3 -0.5
Joe Hall 29 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Ben Blomdahl 24 – 14 -0.2 – –
Juan Samuel↔ KCR 34 FA-elig 76 -0.2 0.3 -0.5
Shannon Penn 25 – 3 -0.3 – –
Buddy Groom↔ MIA 29 arb 23 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Todd Steverson 23 pre-arb 30 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Joe Boever 34 FA-elig 60 -0.3 0.6 -0.9
Mike Gardiner 29 arb 9 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Brian Maxcy 24 pre-arb 41 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Scott Fletcher 36 FA-elig 67 -0.4 0.2 -0.7
Milt Cuyler 26 arb 41 -0.4 0.3 -0.8
Steve Rodriguez↔ BOS 24 – 12 -0.5 – –
Danny Bautista 23 pre-arb 89 -0.6 0.1 -0.7
Phil Nevin↔ HOU 24 pre-arb 29 -0.6 0.1 -0.7
Chris Gomez 24 pre-arb 123 -1.1 0.2 -1.3
Derrick White 25 pre-arb 39 -1.3 0.1 -1.4

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (80%). 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 DET
Max Scherzer200922.2
Carlos Guillén200418.3
Ian Kinsler201316.3
Jeremy Bonderman200215.8
Damion Easley199615.4
Austin Jackson200914.8
Mickey Tettleton199114.4
Chet Lemon198114.2
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
John Smoltz198781.6
Luis Gonzalez199833.8
Chris Hoiles198824.8
Howard Johnson198422.8
Justin Verlander201719.7
Rick Porcello201413.1
Robbie Ray201411.8
Matt Joyce200810.7
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.