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GM: Dave Dombrowski (since 1991)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-6.2
WAB — wins above budget
-3.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
64–98 (0.395)
record
+5M
surplus $M (value/$)
19.9
roster fWAR
$19.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Alex Fernandez 29 FA-elig 25 3.5 7.0 -2.6
Livan Hernandez↔ SFG 24 arb 20 2.2 1.2 +1.5
Bruce Aven 27 pre-arb 137 1.9 0.2 +2.2
Mike Redmond 28 pre-arb 84 1.9 0.2 +2.1
Luis Castillo 23 arb 128 1.8 0.2 +2.1
Dave Berg 28 pre-arb 109 1.6 0.2 +1.8
Cliff Floyd 26 FA-elig 69 1.4 2.5 -0.8
Kevin Orie 26 pre-arb 77 1.3 0.2 +1.4
Dennis Springer 34 arb 38 1.3 0.3 +1.2
Antonio Alfonseca 27 pre-arb 73 0.8 0.2 +0.8
Mark Kotsay 23 pre-arb 148 0.8 0.3 +0.7
Vladimir Nunez↔ ARI 24 pre-arb 17 0.8 0.1 +0.9
Preston Wilson 24 pre-arb 149 0.7 0.2 +0.7
Reid Cornelius 29 – 5 0.6 – –
A.J. Burnett 22 pre-arb 7 0.5 0.2 +0.5
Braden Looper 24 pre-arb 72 0.5 0.2 +0.5
Kevin Millar 27 pre-arb 105 0.5 0.2 +0.5
Danny Bautista 27 FA-elig 70 0.5 0.3 +0.3
Mike Lowell 25 pre-arb 97 0.5 0.2 +0.4
Ryan Dempster 22 pre-arb 26 0.5 0.2 +0.4
Jorge Fabregas↔ ATL 29 arb 82 0.4 1.7 -1.2
Matt Mantei↔ ARI 25 arb 35 0.3 0.4 -0.0
Armando Almanza 26 pre-arb 14 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Brian Meadows 23 pre-arb 31 0.3 0.3 +0.1
Amaury Garcia 24 – 10 0.2 – –
Álex González 22 pre-arb 136 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Archie Corbin 31 – 17 0.1 – –
Ramon Castro 23 pre-arb 24 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Hector Almonte 23 – 15 0.1 – –
Michael Tejera 22 – 3 -0.0 – –
Chris Clapinski 27 pre-arb 36 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Guillermo Garcia 27 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Kirt Ojala 30 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Brian Edmondson 26 pre-arb 68 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
John Roskos 24 – 13 -0.1 – –
Julio Ramirez 21 – 15 -0.2 – –
Tim Hyers 27 arb 58 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Vic Darensbourg 28 pre-arb 56 -0.3 0.3 -0.6
Rafael Medina 24 pre-arb 20 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Brent Billingsley 24 – 8 -0.4 – –
Craig Counsell↔ LAD 28 arb 37 -0.7 0.1 -1.0
Derrek Lee 23 pre-arb 70 -0.8 0.3 -1.3
Jesus Sanchez 24 pre-arb 60 -1.2 0.3 -1.8
Todd Dunwoody 24 pre-arb 64 -1.4 0.2 -2.0

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (82%). 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.