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GM: Omar Minaya (since 2005)

2006 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.7
WAB — wins above budget
+5.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
97–65 (0.599)
record · made playoffs
-18M
surplus $M (value/$)
44.3
roster fWAR
$105.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Carlos Beltrán 29 FA-elig 140 7.8 13.6 +1.9
José Reyes 23 arb 153 5.7 0.4 +10.9
David Wright 23 pre-arb 154 4.7 0.4 +8.9
Tom Glavine 40 FA-elig 32 3.3 10.0 -3.5
Endy Chavez 28 arb 133 3.0 0.5 +5.5
Jose Valentin 36 FA-elig 137 3.0 0.9 +5.0
Carlos Delgado 34 FA-elig 144 2.8 13.5 -8.0
Paul Lo Duca 34 FA-elig 124 2.5 6.6 -1.6
Pedro Martínez 34 FA-elig 23 2.2 14.9 -10.5
Orlando Hernandez↔ ARI 40 FA-elig 20 2.0 3.2 +0.7
Billy Wagner 34 FA-elig 70 1.9 10.5 -6.8
Aaron Heilman 27 arb 74 1.7 0.4 +3.0
Chad Bradford 31 FA-elig 70 1.5 1.4 +1.6
Pedro Feliciano 29 – 64 0.8 – –
Duaner Sanchez 26 arb 49 0.8 0.4 +1.2
Steve Trachsel 35 FA-elig 30 0.7 2.5 -1.1
John Maine 25 – 16 0.6 – –
Ramon Castro 30 FA-elig 40 0.5 0.8 +0.2
Brian Bannister 25 pre-arb 8 0.5 0.3 +0.6
Dave Williams↔ CIN 27 arb 6 0.4 0.6 +0.2
Michael Tucker 35 – 35 0.4 – –
Guillermo Mota↔ CLE 32 FA-elig 18 0.3 1.0 -0.4
Cliff Floyd 33 FA-elig 97 0.2 6.6 -6.2
Oliver Pérez↔ PIT 24 arb 7 0.2 0.6 -0.1
Roberto Hernandez↔ PIT 41 FA-elig 22 0.2 0.9 -0.5
Xavier Nady↔ PIT 27 FA-elig 75 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Jorge Julio↔ ARI 27 arb 18 0.1 0.7 -0.6
Mike Pelfrey 22 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Heath Bell 28 – 22 0.1 – –
Philip Humber 23 – 2 0.0 – –
Darren Oliver 35 FA-elig 45 0.0 0.6 -0.6
Henry Owens 27 – 3 -0.0 – –
Royce Ring 25 – 11 -0.0 – –
Shawn Green↔ ARI 33 FA-elig 34 -0.1 2.3 -2.4
Julio Franco 47 FA-elig 95 -0.1 1.1 -1.2
Kelly Stinnett↔ NYY 36 FA-elig 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Alay Soler 26 – 8 -0.1 – –
Geremi Gonzalez↔ MIL 31 – 3 -0.1 – –
Jose Lima 33 – 4 -0.1 – –
Eli Marrero↔ COL 32 FA-elig 25 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Victor Diaz 24 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.3 -0.7
Victor Zambrano 30 arb 5 -0.2 3.0 -3.4
Ricky Ledee↔ LAD 32 FA-elig 27 -0.3 0.6 -1.1
Kazuo Matsui↔ COL 30 pre-arb 38 -0.3 4.4 -4.9
Mike DiFelice 37 – 15 -0.3 – –
Bartolome Fortunato 31 – 2 -0.3 – –
Anderson Hernandez 23 pre-arb 25 -0.6 0.3 -1.4
Lastings Milledge 21 – 56 -0.6 – –
Chris Woodward 30 FA-elig 83 -0.6 0.8 -2.0

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (73%). 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.