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GM: Sandy Alderson (since 2011)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-13.1
WAB — wins above budget
-6.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
70–92 (0.432)
record
-45M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.2
roster fWAR
$142.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jacob deGrom 29 arb 37 4.7 4.0 +11.7
Michael Conforto 24 pre-arb 109 4.3 0.6 +13.8
Jay Bruce↔ CLE 30 FA-elig 103 2.1 9.2 -2.1
Curtis Granderson↔ LAD 36 FA-elig 111 1.8 11.3 -5.1
Seth Lugo 27 pre-arb 20 1.8 0.5 +5.4
Yoenis Cespedes 31 arb 81 1.8 22.5 -16.6
Noah Syndergaard 24 pre-arb 7 1.6 0.6 +4.8
Travis d'Arnaud 28 arb 112 1.6 1.9 +3.5
José Reyes 34 FA-elig 145 1.5 22.0 -17.1
Asdrúbal Cabrera 31 FA-elig 135 1.4 8.2 -3.4
Juan Lagares 28 arb 94 1.2 4.5 -0.3
Brandon Nimmo 24 pre-arb 69 1.1 0.5 +3.3
Rafael Montero 26 arb 34 1.1 0.5 +3.1
Neil Walker↔ MIL 31 FA-elig 73 1.1 11.3 -7.7
Jerry Blevins 33 FA-elig 75 0.9 5.5 -2.5
Lucas Duda↔ TBR 31 FA-elig 75 0.9 4.3 -1.3
Addison Reed↔ BOS 28 FA-elig 48 0.9 4.8 -1.9
Wilmer Flores 25 arb 110 0.8 2.2 +0.7
T.J. Rivera 28 pre-arb 73 0.8 0.5 +2.2
Robert Gsellman 23 pre-arb 27 0.8 0.5 +2.1
Paul Sewald 27 – 57 0.6 0.5 +1.4
René Rivera↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 54 0.3 1.3 -0.2
Jeurys Familia 27 arb 26 0.3 7.4 -6.4
Phillip Evans 24 – 19 0.3 0.1 +0.9
Steven Matz 26 pre-arb 17 0.3 0.6 +0.3
Norichika Aoki↔ HOU 35 arb 27 0.2 1.4 -0.7
Chasen Bradford 27 – 28 0.2 0.3 +0.4
Jamie Callahan 22 pre-arb 9 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Zack Wheeler 27 arb 18 0.2 0.8 -0.3
Matt Reynolds 26 pre-arb 68 0.1 0.4 +0.0
Fernando Salas↔ ANA 32 FA-elig 48 0.1 2.4 -2.1
AJ Ramos↔ MIA 30 arb 21 0.1 2.3 -2.0
Tomás Nido 23 – 5 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Kevin Plawecki 26 pre-arb 37 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Ty Kelly↔ PHI 28 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Sean Gilmartin 27 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Josh Edgin 30 arb 46 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Tyler Pill 27 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Kevin McGowan 25 – 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Jacob Rhame 24 – 9 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Amed Rosario 21 – 46 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Neil Ramírez↔ SFG 28 arb 20 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Adam Wilk↔ MIN 29 – 1 -0.3 0.0 -0.9
Erik Goeddel 28 pre-arb 33 -0.3 0.3 -1.3
Josh Smoker 28 pre-arb 54 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Travis Taijeron 28 – 26 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Hansel Robles 26 pre-arb 46 -0.4 0.6 -1.8
Tommy Milone↔ MIL 30 FA-elig 11 -0.4 0.8 -2.1
Gavin Cecchini 23 pre-arb 32 -0.4 0.2 -1.6
Dominic Smith 22 – 49 -0.7 0.2 -2.6
Chris Flexen 22 – 14 -0.8 0.2 -2.7
Matt Harvey 28 arb 19 -1.1 5.1 -9.0

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.