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GM: Dave Dombrowski (since 1991)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-1.7
WAB — wins above budget
+2.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
67–76 (0.469)
record
+5M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.2
roster fWAR
$24.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chris Hammond 29 arb 25 3.2 1.0 +2.1
Jeff Conine 29 arb 133 3.2 0.5 +2.5
Charles Johnson 23 pre-arb 97 3.1 0.1 +2.8
Quilvio Veras 24 pre-arb 124 3.1 0.1 +2.8
Gary Sheffield 26 FA-elig 63 2.5 5.6 -3.2
Terry Pendleton 34 FA-elig 133 2.3 1.6 +0.6
John Burkett 30 FA-elig 31 1.9 3.4 -1.5
Pat Rapp 27 arb 28 1.8 0.2 +1.6
Bobby Witt↔ TEX 31 FA-elig 21 1.8 1.2 +0.5
Kurt Abbott 26 pre-arb 120 1.8 0.1 +1.6
Greg Colbrunn 25 arb 138 1.8 0.2 +1.5
Jesus Tavarez 24 pre-arb 63 1.0 0.1 +0.9
Robb Nen 25 pre-arb 62 1.0 0.2 +0.8
Terry Mathews 30 arb 57 1.0 0.1 +0.8
Alex Arias 27 arb 94 0.9 0.2 +0.6
Chuck Carr 27 arb 105 0.5 0.3 +0.2
Alejandro Pena↔ ATL 36 FA-elig 13 0.4 0.1 +0.3
Mark Gardner 33 FA-elig 39 0.4 0.4 +0.0
Steve Decker 29 arb 51 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Jerry Browne 29 FA-elig 77 0.3 0.7 -0.4
David Weathers 25 arb 28 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Russ Morman 33 FA-elig 34 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Rob Natal 29 arb 16 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Rich Garces↔ CHC 24 arb 11 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Willie Banks↔ CHC 26 arb 12 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Bryan Harvey 32 FA-elig 1 0.0 4.9 -4.9
Buddy Groom↔ DET 29 arb 14 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Rich Scheid 30 – 6 -0.0 – –
Ryan Bowen 27 arb 4 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Mike Myers↔ DET 26 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Matt Mantei 21 pre-arb 12 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jay Powell 23 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
John Johnstone 26 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Rob Murphy↔ LAD 35 FA-elig 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Eddie Zosky 27 – 6 -0.1 – –
Aaron Small 23 – 7 -0.2 – –
Jeremy Hernandez 28 arb 7 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Yorkis Perez 27 arb 69 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Matt Dunbar 26 – 8 -0.2 – –
Marc Valdes 23 pre-arb 3 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Tommy Gregg 31 FA-elig 72 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Randy Veres 29 FA-elig 47 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Mario Diaz 33 FA-elig 49 -0.4 0.2 -0.6
Darrell Whitmore 26 pre-arb 27 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Richie Lewis 29 – 21 -0.5 – –
Andre Dawson 40 FA-elig 79 -0.7 0.5 -1.1

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 of them (89%). 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 MIA
Hanley Ramírez200529.1
Dontrelle Willis200220.7
Ricky Nolasco200517.5
A. J. Burnett199816.1
Gary Sheffield199313.6
Cliff Floyd199713.2
Derrek Lee199710.6
Aníbal Sánchez20059.9
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Johan Santana199932.0
Christian Yelich201828.6
J. T. Realmuto201925.7
Trevor Hoffman199324.3
Derrek Lee200321.4
Josh Beckett200520.1
Édgar Rentería199817.4
Gary Sheffield199814.7
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.