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GM: Joe McIlvaine (since 1994)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.9
WAB — wins above budget
+3.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
69–75 (0.479)
record
+5M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.0
roster fWAR
$22.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jeff Kent 27 arb 125 2.8 0.7 +2.0
Todd Hundley 26 arb 90 2.7 1.0 +1.7
Bobby Jones 25 pre-arb 30 2.6 0.2 +2.3
Bobby Bonilla↔ BAL 32 FA-elig 80 2.4 3.0 -0.7
Rico Brogna 25 arb 134 2.3 0.1 +2.0
Bill Pulsipher 21 pre-arb 17 1.7 0.1 +1.5
Jason Isringhausen 22 pre-arb 14 1.6 0.1 +1.4
Carl Everett 24 pre-arb 79 1.6 0.1 +1.4
Pete Harnisch 28 FA-elig 18 1.5 3.0 -1.6
Bret Saberhagen↔ COL 31 FA-elig 16 1.4 3.6 -2.2
Chris Jones 29 arb 79 1.4 0.2 +1.1
Dave Mlicki 27 arb 29 1.3 0.1 +1.1
Mike Birkbeck 34 – 4 0.8 – –
Jerry Dipoto 27 pre-arb 58 0.8 0.1 +0.6
Ryan Thompson 27 arb 75 0.8 0.2 +0.5
John Franco 34 FA-elig 48 0.8 2.5 -1.8
Brett Butler↔ LAD 38 FA-elig 90 0.7 1.4 -0.7
Doug Henry 31 arb 51 0.6 0.4 +0.2
Jose Vizcaino 27 FA-elig 135 0.6 1.4 -0.7
Paul Byrd 24 pre-arb 17 0.6 0.1 +0.4
Edgardo Alfonzo 21 pre-arb 101 0.4 0.1 +0.3
David Segui↔ WSN 28 arb 33 0.4 0.2 +0.2
Tim Bogar 28 pre-arb 78 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Robert Person 25 pre-arb 3 0.3 0.1 +0.2
Eric Gunderson↔ BOS 29 arb 30 0.3 0.1 +0.2
Blas Minor 29 arb 35 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Dave Telgheder 28 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Damon Buford↔ BAL 25 pre-arb 44 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Alex Ochoa 23 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Kelly Stinnett 25 pre-arb 77 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Brook Fordyce 25 – 4 0.1 – –
Don Florence 28 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Kevin Lomon 23 – 6 0.1 – –
Reid Cornelius↔ WSN 25 pre-arb 10 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Mike Remlinger↔ CIN 29 arb 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Alberto Castillo 25 pre-arb 13 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Josias Manzanillo↔ NYY 27 arb 12 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Jeff Barry 25 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Pete Walker 26 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Aaron Ledesma 24 pre-arb 21 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Jason Jacome↔ KCR 24 pre-arb 5 -0.3 0.0 -0.3
Butch Huskey 23 pre-arb 28 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Ricky Otero 23 pre-arb 35 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Joe Orsulak 33 FA-elig 108 -0.5 0.9 -1.3
Bill Spiers 29 FA-elig 63 -0.6 0.4 -1.0

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 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 NYM
Sid Fernandez198327.5
Howard Johnson198422.8
David Cone198721.2
Noah Syndergaard201220.1
John Olerud199618.3
Keith Hernandez198316.5
Kevin McReynolds198615.1
Johan Santana200814.3
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Melvin Mora200026.9
Mike Scott198221.9
Nolan Ryan198516.2
A. J. Burnett199816.1
José Oquendo198515.3
Scott Kazmir200415.0
Walt Terrell198413.5
Andrés Giménez202113.3
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.