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GM: Omar Minaya

Overview

CONTEND ↘ cooling
expensive & winning · year 3 in this regime · payroll 1.49× league · TAB +3.1
+3.1TAB — talent above budget11th/30
+1.9WAB — realized wins (TAB + luck)15th/30
6.0depth — 2+ WAR regulars16th/30
-2.4dead WAR — sub-replacement drag6th/30
32%dead money %10th/30
0.549win %7th/30
42.2roster fWAR6th/30
-40surplus $M (value vs cost)27th/30
$131Mpayroll $M3rd/30

Roster

CFCarlos Beltrán 158GEndy Chavez 10GÁngel Pagán 2G
LFEndy Chavez 54GFernando Tatis 51GDaniel Murphy 32G
RFRyan Church 83GEndy Chavez 60GFernando Tatis 39G
SSJosé Reyes 158GDamion Easley 8G
2BLuis Castillo 81GDamion Easley 64GArgenis Reyes 27G
3BDavid Wright 159GFernando Tatis 4GDamion Easley 1G
1BCarlos Delgado 154GMarlon Anderson 6GFernando Tatis 6G
STARTERSJohan Santana 5.3WARMike Pelfrey 2.8WARJohn Maine 1.6WAROliver Pérez 1.5WARNelson Figueroa 0.4WAR
CBrian Schneider 109GRamon Castro 47GRobinson Cancel 15G
DHCarlos Delgado 2GMoises Alou 1GMarlon Anderson 1G
BULLPEN★ Billy Wagner 27svPedro Feliciano 21hDuaner Sanchez 21hLuis Ayala 19hJoe Smith 18hAaron Heilman 15hScott Schoeneweis 15hBrian Stokes 4h
CBrian Schneider 109 · Ramon Castro 47 · Robinson Cancel 15
1BCarlos Delgado 154 · Marlon Anderson 6 · Fernando Tatis 6
2BLuis Castillo 81 · Damion Easley 64 · Argenis Reyes 27
3BDavid Wright 159 · Fernando Tatis 4 · Damion Easley 1
SSJosé Reyes 158 · Damion Easley 8
LFEndy Chavez 54 · Fernando Tatis 51 · Daniel Murphy 32
CFCarlos Beltrán 158 · Endy Chavez 10 · Ángel Pagán 2
RFRyan Church 83 · Endy Chavez 60 · Fernando Tatis 39
DHCarlos Delgado 2 · Moises Alou 1 · Marlon Anderson 1
SPJohan Santana 5.3 · Mike Pelfrey 2.8 · John Maine 1.6 · Oliver Pérez 1.5 · Nelson Figueroa 0.4
BP★ Billy Wagner 27 · Pedro Feliciano 21 · Duaner Sanchez 21 · Luis Ayala 19 · Joe Smith 18 · Aaron Heilman 15 · Scott Schoeneweis 15 · Brian Stokes 4

Each position lists its starter then backups by games (so platoons & bench show). Starters (mound) & bullpen (left, foul territory) are ranked by WAR; ★ marks the closer (most save chances). MLB Stats API.

2008 roster — value & surplus

PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Carlos Beltrán 31 FA-elig 1617.2 18.6 -2.1
David Wright 25 arb 1607.0 5.2 +10.7
José Reyes 25 arb 1595.9 4.4 +9.0
Johan Santana 29 FA-elig 345.3 17.0 -5.0
Mike Pelfrey 24 pre-arb 322.8 2.0 +4.4
Carlos Delgado 36 FA-elig 1592.4 16.0 -10.5
Brian Schneider 31 FA-elig 1101.9 4.9 -0.7
John Maine 27 arb 261.6 0.5 +3.3
Oliver Pérez 26 FA-elig 341.5 6.5 -3.1
Ryan Church 29 arb 901.4 2.0 +1.2
Fernando Tatis 33 – 921.3 – –
Billy Wagner 36 FA-elig 451.2 10.5 -7.7
Endy Chavez 30 FA-elig 1330.9 1.8 +0.2
Daniel Murphy 23 – 490.8 – –
Ángel Pagán 26 pre-arb 310.4 0.4 +0.6
Nelson Figueroa 34 – 160.4 – –
Luis Castillo 32 FA-elig 870.4 6.2 -5.4
Brian Stokes 28 pre-arb 240.3 0.4 +0.3
Joe Smith 24 pre-arb 820.3 0.4 +0.3
Ramon Castro 32 FA-elig 520.3 2.0 -1.4
Raul Casanova 35 – 200.2 – –
Nick Evans 22 – 500.2 0.4 +0.1
Duaner Sanchez 28 FA-elig 660.2 0.8 -0.4
Pedro Martínez 36 FA-elig 200.2 11.8 -11.4
Moises Alou 41 FA-elig 150.2 7.5 -7.1
Brandon Knight 32 – 40.1 – –
Luis Ayala↔ WSN 30 arb 190.1 0.4 -0.2
Brady Clark 35 – 70.1 – –
Claudio Vargas 30 – 110.1 – –
Bobby Parnell 23 – 60.1 – –
Ramon Martinez 35 – 70.0 – –
Jonathon Niese 21 – 30.0 – –
Robinson Cancel 32 – 27-0.0 – –
Trot Nixon 34 – 11-0.0 – –
Ricardo Rincon 38 – 8-0.0 – –
Damion Easley 38 FA-elig 113-0.0 0.9 -1.0
Tony Armas 30 – 3-0.0 – –
Gustavo Molina 26 – 2-0.0 – –
Abraham O. Nunez 32 – 2-0.0 – –
Andy Phillips↔ CIN 31 – 4-0.1 – –
Argenis Reyes 25 – 49-0.1 – –
Chris Aguila 29 – 8-0.1 – –
Carlos Muniz 27 – 18-0.1 – –
Pedro Feliciano 31 FA-elig 86-0.1 1.0 -1.3
Eddie Kunz 22 – 4-0.1 – –
Matt Wise 32 FA-elig 8-0.1 1.2 -1.5
Jorge Sosa 30 FA-elig 20-0.3 2.0 -2.7
Marlon Anderson 34 FA-elig 87-0.3 1.1 -1.8
Aaron Heilman 29 arb 78-0.4 1.2 -2.1
Scott Schoeneweis 34 FA-elig 73-0.4 3.6 -4.6

Key additions (new vs 2007)

PlayerfWAR
Johan Santana5.3
Brian Schneider1.9
Ryan Church1.4
Fernando Tatis1.3
Daniel Murphy0.8
Ángel Pagán0.4

Key subtractions (gone from 2007)

Player2007 fWAR
Tom Glavine2.0
Orlando Hernandez1.4
Ruben Gotay0.7
Carlos Gómez0.3
Brian Lawrence0.2
Guillermo Mota0.2

Current & Historical Payroll

2008 payroll
$130.8M

What the front office was committed to as of 2008, 2008–2014. Pre-2015 has no contract-terms data — forward italic $ are realized actuals (hindsight, not commitments known then). Control labels (ARB/FA) are point-in-time.

current $ guaranteed $ actual $ (hindsight) arbitration (proj) pre-arb (proj) free agent

Guaranteed / signed (27)

PlayerAgeSvc2008200920102011201220132014
Carlos Beltrán3110.000$18.6M$19.2M$19.4M$13.3MFREE AGENT
Johan Santana298.000$17.0M$18.9M$20.1MFREE AGENT$24.0M
Carlos Delgado3615.000$16.0M$12.0MFREE AGENT
Pedro Martínez3616.000$11.8MFREE AGENT
Billy Wagner3613.000$10.5M$9.3MFREE AGENT
Moises Alou4118.000$7.5MFREE AGENT
Oliver Pérez266.000$6.5M$12.0M$12.0MFREE AGENT
Luis Castillo3212.000$6.2M$6.2M$6.2MFREE AGENT
Brian Schneider318.000$4.9M$4.9MFREE AGENT
Scott Schoeneweis349.000$3.6MFREE AGENT
Jorge Sosa306.000$2.0MFREE AGENT
Ramon Castro329.000$2.0M$1.4MFREE AGENT
Endy Chavez307.000$1.8MFREE AGENT
Matt Wise328.000$1.2MFREE AGENT
Marlon Anderson3410.000$1.1M$1.1MFREE AGENT
Pedro Feliciano316.000$1.0M$1.6M$2.9MFREE AGENT$322k
Damion Easley3816.000$950kFREE AGENT
Duaner Sanchez286.000$850kFREE AGENT
Raul Casanova3512.000—FREE AGENT
Trot Nixon3412.000—FREE AGENT
Abraham O. Nunez3211.000—FREE AGENT
Ricardo Rincon3811.000—FREE AGENT
Fernando Tatis3311.000—$1.7M$850kFREE AGENT
Ramon Martinez3510.000—FREE AGENT
Nelson Figueroa348.000—FREE AGENT
Tony Armas309.000—FREE AGENT
Brady Clark358.000—FREE AGENT

Arbitration-eligible (9)

PlayerAgeSvc2008200920102011201220132014
David Wright254.000$5.2MARB 3FREE AGENT
José Reyes255.000$4.4MFREE AGENT
Ryan Church294.000$2.0MARB 3FREE AGENT
Aaron Heilman295.000$1.2MFREE AGENT
John Maine274.000$450kARB 3FREE AGENT
Luis Ayala305.000$399kFREE AGENT
Claudio Vargas305.000—FREE AGENT
Andy Phillips314.000—ARB 3FREE AGENT
Chris Aguila294.000—ARB 3FREE AGENT

Pre-arbitration (14)

PlayerAgeSvc2008200920102011201220132014
Mike Pelfrey242.000$2.0MARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Brian Stokes282.000$402kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Ángel Pagán262.000$402kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Joe Smith241.000$398kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Nick Evans220.000$390kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Brandon Knight32–—
Robinson Cancel32–—
Gustavo Molina261.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Carlos Muniz27–—
Eddie Kunz22–—
Bobby Parnell230.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Argenis Reyes25–—
Jonathon Niese210.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Daniel Murphy230.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT

Graphs

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR. Bars = Mets 2008; the black line = the league-average player at each slot that season. Staying above the line deep into the roster is the depth edge; dropping below it = holes & dead weight.

What each regime is worth — every settled team-season since 1985

RegimeSeasonsWin %Playoff %Pennant %WS %
WINDOW 28152.131.05.01.1
CONTEND 30056.964.719.710.3
FORCED-SPEND 25648.09.81.61.6
REBUILD 32143.31.20.30.3
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.