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GM: Sandy Alderson (since 2011)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+8.3
WAB — wins above budget
+9.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record · won pennant
+19M
surplus $M (value/$)
43.6
roster fWAR
$118.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Curtis Granderson 34 FA-elig 157 5.3 16.0 +0.8
Jacob deGrom 27 pre-arb 31 5.2 0.6 +15.7
Matt Harvey 26 arb 29 3.9 0.6 +11.8
Travis d'Arnaud 26 pre-arb 67 3.4 0.5 +10.1
Noah Syndergaard 22 – 24 3.2 0.4 +9.8
Lucas Duda 29 arb 135 3.2 4.2 +5.9
Yoenis Cespedes↔ DET 29 arb 57 2.6 3.8 +4.3
Bartolo Colon 42 FA-elig 33 2.4 11.0 -3.3
Daniel Murphy 30 FA-elig 130 2.2 8.0 -1.2
Michael Conforto 22 – 56 1.9 0.2 +5.7
Wilmer Flores 23 pre-arb 137 1.7 0.5 +4.9
Jeurys Familia 25 arb 76 1.5 0.5 +4.2
Kevin Plawecki 24 – 73 1.1 0.4 +3.2
Rubén Tejada 25 arb 116 1.1 1.9 +1.7
David Wright 32 FA-elig 38 1.0 20.0 -16.8
Jonathon Niese 28 FA-elig 33 1.0 7.0 -3.8
Sean Gilmartin 25 – 50 0.9 0.5 +2.4
Steven Matz 24 – 6 0.7 0.3 +1.9
Juan Uribe↔ ATL 36 FA-elig 44 0.6 2.4 -0.6
Juan Lagares 26 pre-arb 143 0.6 0.5 +1.2
Erik Goeddel 26 pre-arb 35 0.5 0.5 +1.0
Dilson Herrera 21 pre-arb 31 0.5 0.2 +1.2
Carlos Torres 32 FA-elig 59 0.4 0.6 +0.7
Rafael Montero 24 pre-arb 5 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Addison Reed↔ ARI 26 arb 17 0.3 1.5 -0.6
Darrell Ceciliani 25 pre-arb 39 0.3 0.4 +0.5
Buddy Carlyle 37 FA-elig 11 0.2 0.7 +0.0
Jerry Blevins 31 arb 7 0.2 2.4 -1.7
Jenrry Mejia 25 arb 7 0.2 2.6 -2.0
Michael Cuddyer 36 FA-elig 117 0.2 8.5 -8.0
Dillon Gee 29 arb 8 0.2 5.3 -4.8
Kelly Johnson↔ ATL 33 FA-elig 49 0.2 0.7 -0.1
Hansel Robles 24 – 57 0.2 0.5 +0.0
Kirk Nieuwenhuis↔ ANA 27 arb 64 0.1 0.5 -0.0
Jack Leathersich 24 – 17 0.1 0.4 +0.0
Logan Verrett↔ TEX 25 – 14 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Eric Young Jr.↔ ATL 30 FA-elig 18 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Bobby Parnell 30 FA-elig 30 -0.1 3.7 -4.1
Akeel Morris 22 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Tim Stauffer↔ MIN 33 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Eric O'Flaherty↔ OAK 30 FA-elig 16 -0.1 2.1 -2.6
Tyler Clippard↔ OAK 30 FA-elig 32 -0.2 3.8 -4.3
Danny Muno 26 – 17 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Eric Campbell 28 pre-arb 71 -0.2 0.5 -1.3
Dario Alvarez 26 pre-arb 6 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
John Mayberry Jr. 31 FA-elig 59 -0.3 1.4 -2.5
Johnny Monell 29 pre-arb 27 -0.5 0.2 -1.7
Alex Torres 27 arb 39 -0.7 0.5 -2.7
Anthony Recker 31 arb 32 -0.9 0.5 -3.4

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.