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GM: Bob Watson (since 1994)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+3.4
WAB — wins above budget
+7.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
76–68 (0.528)
record
+3M
surplus $M (value/$)
37.1
roster fWAR
$32.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Craig Biggio 29 FA-elig 141 6.2 4.7 +1.2
Shane Reynolds 27 arb 31 4.7 0.2 +4.3
Jeff Bagwell 27 arb 114 4.5 6.9 -2.5
Doug Drabek 32 FA-elig 33 3.1 5.0 -2.1
Tony Eusebio 28 arb 113 2.4 0.2 +2.2
Mike Hampton 22 pre-arb 24 2.4 0.1 +2.1
John Cangelosi 32 FA-elig 90 2.0 0.2 +1.7
Dave Magadan 32 FA-elig 127 1.9 0.4 +1.5
Derrick May↔ MIL 26 arb 78 1.9 0.3 +1.6
Derek Bell 26 arb 112 1.8 1.4 +0.3
Darryl Kile 26 arb 25 1.8 1.3 +0.4
Dave Veres 28 pre-arb 72 1.7 0.1 +1.5
Brian L. Hunter 24 pre-arb 78 1.5 0.1 +1.4
Greg Swindell 30 FA-elig 34 1.5 4.5 -3.0
Mike Simms 28 arb 50 1.0 0.1 +0.8
John Hudek 28 pre-arb 19 0.5 0.2 +0.3
Mike Henneman↔ DET 33 FA-elig 21 0.5 2.0 -1.6
Todd Jones 27 pre-arb 68 0.4 0.2 +0.2
Rick Wilkins↔ CHC 28 arb 15 0.4 0.3 +0.0
Luis Gonzalez↔ CHC 27 arb 56 0.3 0.6 -0.3
Orlando Miller 26 pre-arb 92 0.3 0.1 +0.1
James Mouton 26 pre-arb 104 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Jeff Tabaka↔ SDP 31 pre-arb 24 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Dean Hartgraves 28 pre-arb 40 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Scooter Tucker↔ CLE 28 arb 5 0.1 0.0 +0.1
Doug Brocail 28 arb 37 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Billy Wagner 23 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Dave Hajek 27 – 5 0.0 – –
Scott Servais↔ CHC 28 arb 28 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Jerry Goff 31 – 12 -0.1 – –
Jim Dougherty 27 pre-arb 56 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Chris Donnels↔ BOS 29 arb 19 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Donne Wall 27 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Craig McMurtry 35 FA-elig 11 -0.1 0.3 -0.4
Andy Stankiewicz 30 arb 43 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Phil Plantier↔ SDP 26 arb 22 -0.2 0.6 -0.7
Milt Thompson 36 FA-elig 92 -0.2 0.5 -0.7
Ross Powell↔ PIT 27 pre-arb 15 -0.3 0.1 -0.3
Mike Brumley 32 – 18 -0.3 – –
Pedro Martinez 26 pre-arb 25 -0.4 0.2 -0.5
Craig Shipley 32 FA-elig 92 -0.4 0.6 -0.9
Pat Borders↔ KCR 32 FA-elig 11 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Ricky Gutierrez 25 pre-arb 52 -0.6 0.2 -0.8
Phil Nevin↔ DET 24 pre-arb 18 -0.7 0.0 -0.7

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 of them (93%). 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 HOU
Jeff Bagwell199080.2
Yordan Álvarez201626.7
Mike Scott198221.9
Justin Verlander201719.7
Mike Hampton199319.2
Kevin Bass198217.5
Nolan Ryan198516.2
Moisés Alou199713.5
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Kenny Lofton199142.5
Curt Schilling199236.3
Ben Zobrist200633.1
Ken Caminiti199417.4
Freddy García199815.6
Jed Lowrie201313.0
Ramón Laureano20179.2
Patrick Sandoval20188.9
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.