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GM: Sandy Alderson (since 2011)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.7
WAB — wins above budget
-4.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
77–85 (0.475)
record
-27M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.4
roster fWAR
$93.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Reyes 28 FA-elig 126 5.8 11.0 +3.3
Carlos Beltrán↔ SFG 34 FA-elig 98 3.3 13.3 -5.4
Jonathon Niese 24 arb 29 2.6 0.5 +6.0
Daniel Murphy 26 arb 109 2.6 0.4 +5.9
R.A. Dickey 36 FA-elig 33 2.5 2.8 +3.3
David Wright 28 FA-elig 102 1.7 14.2 -10.0
Rubén Tejada 21 pre-arb 96 1.7 0.4 +3.8
Chris Capuano 32 FA-elig 36 1.7 1.5 +2.5
Ike Davis 24 pre-arb 36 1.3 0.4 +2.7
Mike Pelfrey 27 arb 34 1.2 3.9 -1.0
Ángel Pagán 29 arb 123 0.9 3.5 -1.3
Lucas Duda 25 pre-arb 100 0.8 0.4 +1.6
Francisco Rodríguez↔ MIL 29 FA-elig 42 0.7 7.0 -5.3
Bobby Parnell 26 arb 60 0.7 0.4 +1.3
Jason Pridie 27 – 101 0.7 – –
Tim Byrdak 37 FA-elig 72 0.6 0.9 +0.6
Chris Schwinden 24 – 4 0.6 – –
Nick Evans 25 – 59 0.5 – –
Chris Young 32 FA-elig 4 0.4 1.1 -0.1
Josh Thole 24 pre-arb 114 0.4 0.4 +0.6
Justin Turner 26 pre-arb 117 0.4 0.4 +0.5
Jason Bay 32 FA-elig 123 0.4 18.1 -17.2
Mike Baxter 26 – 22 0.3 – –
Miguel Batista↔ STL 40 FA-elig 9 0.3 0.2 +0.6
Scott Hairston 31 FA-elig 79 0.3 1.1 -0.4
Manny Acosta 30 arb 44 0.3 0.4 +0.2
Dale Thayer 30 arb 11 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Dillon Gee 25 pre-arb 30 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Michael O'Connor 30 – 9 0.2 – –
Daniel Herrera↔ MIL 26 – 16 0.1 – –
Ryota Igarashi 32 pre-arb 45 0.1 1.8 -1.6
Fernando Martinez 22 pre-arb 11 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Valentino Pascucci 32 – 10 0.0 – –
Pat Misch 29 – 6 -0.1 – –
Josh Stinson 23 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Mike Nickeas 28 pre-arb 21 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Josh Satin 26 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Taylor Buchholz 29 arb 23 -0.1 0.6 -0.9
Pedro Beato 24 pre-arb 60 -0.1 0.4 -0.8
Brad Emaus 25 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Jason Isringhausen 38 FA-elig 53 -0.3 0.4 -1.0
Blaine Boyer 29 FA-elig 5 -0.3 0.7 -1.4
D.J. Carrasco 34 FA-elig 42 -0.4 1.2 -2.3
Chin-Lung Hu 27 arb 22 -0.5 0.4 -1.5
Willie Harris 33 FA-elig 126 -0.6 0.8 -2.2
Ronny Paulino 30 FA-elig 78 -1.2 1.3 -4.3

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (83%). 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.