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GM: Steve Phillips (since 1998)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.2
WAB — wins above budget
+7.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
97–66 (0.595)
record · made playoffs
-11M
surplus $M (value/$)
45.6
roster fWAR
$67.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Robin Ventura 31 FA-elig 161 7.3 7.0 +2.2
Edgardo Alfonzo 25 arb 158 5.9 2.8 +4.7
John Olerud 30 FA-elig 162 5.8 4.2 +3.1
Mike Piazza 30 FA-elig 141 4.5 7.2 -1.5
Al Leiter 33 FA-elig 32 3.0 5.2 -1.4
Rey Ordonez 28 arb 154 3.0 1.6 +2.1
Armando Benitez 26 arb 77 3.0 2.0 +1.7
Rickey Henderson 40 FA-elig 121 2.1 1.9 +0.8
Orel Hershiser 40 FA-elig 32 1.8 2.5 -0.2
Bobby Jones 29 FA-elig 12 1.6 4.9 -2.9
Roger Cedeno 24 arb 155 1.5 0.5 +1.4
Rick Reed 34 FA-elig 27 1.3 1.7 -0.1
Darryl Hamilton↔ COL 34 FA-elig 55 1.2 1.4 +0.2
Masato Yoshii 34 pre-arb 31 1.2 2.0 -0.5
Benny Agbayani 27 pre-arb 101 1.1 0.2 +1.2
Kenny Rogers↔ OAK 34 FA-elig 12 1.1 1.9 -0.5
John Franco 38 FA-elig 46 0.9 3.0 -1.8
Todd Pratt 32 FA-elig 71 0.7 0.3 +0.6
Octavio Dotel 25 pre-arb 19 0.7 0.2 +0.7
Turk Wendell 32 FA-elig 80 0.7 1.2 -0.3
Shawon Dunston↔ STL 36 FA-elig 42 0.4 0.2 +0.2
Allen Watson↔ NYY 28 FA-elig 14 0.2 0.3 +0.0
Pat Mahomes 28 FA-elig 41 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Jay Payton 26 – 13 0.1 – –
Rigo Beltran↔ COL 29 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Dennis Cook 36 FA-elig 71 0.1 2.0 -1.9
Chuck McElroy↔ COL 31 FA-elig 15 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Matt Franco 29 arb 122 0.1 0.2 -0.2
Jermaine Allensworth 27 arb 40 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Melvin Mora 27 pre-arb 66 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Josias Manzanillo 31 FA-elig 13 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Greg McMichael↔ OAK 32 FA-elig 19 0.0 1.0 -1.0
Glendon Rusch↔ KCR 24 – 1 0.0 – –
Shane Halter 29 pre-arb 7 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Jorge Toca 24 – 4 -0.0 – –
Dan Murray↔ KCR 25 – 1 -0.0 – –
Mike Kinkade 26 pre-arb 28 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Billy Taylor↔ OAK 37 arb 18 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Terrence Long 23 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Jeff Tam↔ CLE 28 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Luis Lopez 28 FA-elig 68 -0.2 0.6 -0.8
Jason Isringhausen↔ OAK 26 arb 13 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Bobby Bonilla 36 FA-elig 60 -1.3 5.9 -7.6
Brian McRae↔ COL 31 FA-elig 96 -2.3 2.7 -5.6

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (91%). 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.