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GM: Sandy Alderson (since 2011)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-7.3
WAB — wins above budget
-2.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
77–85 (0.475)
record
-38M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.0
roster fWAR
$156.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jacob deGrom 30 arb 32 9.4 7.4 +24.6
Brandon Nimmo 25 pre-arb 140 5.1 0.6 +16.9
Zack Wheeler 28 arb 29 4.4 1.9 +13.2
Noah Syndergaard 25 arb 25 4.2 3.0 +11.2
Michael Conforto 25 arb 153 3.4 0.6 +11.1
Asdrúbal Cabrera↔ PHI 32 FA-elig 98 2.8 5.5 +4.1
Jeff McNeil 26 – 63 2.6 0.2 +8.8
Seth Lugo 28 pre-arb 54 1.6 0.6 +4.7
Todd Frazier 32 FA-elig 115 1.4 8.0 -3.1
Jeurys Familia↔ OAK 28 FA-elig 40 1.1 4.5 -0.6
Steven Matz 27 arb 30 1.1 0.6 +3.3
Wilmer Flores 26 arb 126 0.8 3.4 -0.7
Yoenis Cespedes 32 FA-elig 38 0.7 29.0 -26.5
Juan Lagares 29 arb 30 0.5 6.5 -4.7
Kevin Plawecki 27 arb 79 0.5 0.6 +1.1
José Bautista↔ ATL 37 FA-elig 83 0.4 0.4 +1.1
Amed Rosario 22 pre-arb 154 0.4 0.5 +0.8
Robert Gsellman 24 pre-arb 68 0.4 0.6 +0.8
Drew Smith 24 – 27 0.3 0.3 +0.7
Jason Vargas 35 FA-elig 21 0.3 6.0 -5.1
Daniel Zamora 25 – 16 0.2 0.1 +0.7
Travis d'Arnaud 29 arb 4 0.1 3.5 -3.3
Scott Copeland 30 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.2
Paul Sewald 28 pre-arb 46 0.0 0.6 -0.4
Eric Hanhold 24 – 3 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Devin Mesoraco↔ CIN 30 FA-elig 66 -0.0 10.3 -10.3
David Wright 35 FA-elig 2 -0.0 20.0 -20.0
Jack Reinheimer 25 pre-arb 21 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Jerry Blevins 34 FA-elig 64 -0.1 7.0 -7.2
Matt Harvey↔ CIN 29 FA-elig 8 -0.1 1.4 -1.6
Austin Jackson↔ SFG 31 FA-elig 57 -0.1 0.8 -1.0
P.J. Conlon 24 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Kevin Kaczmarski 26 – 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Drew Gagnon 28 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Ty Kelly 29 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
AJ Ramos 31 FA-elig 28 -0.2 9.2 -9.8
Phillip Evans 25 pre-arb 15 -0.2 0.6 -1.1
Bobby Wahl 26 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Buddy Baumann↔ SDP 30 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Luis Guillorme 23 – 35 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Tyler Bashlor 25 – 24 -0.2 0.3 -1.1
Tomás Nido 24 pre-arb 34 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
Gerson Bautista 23 – 5 -0.3 0.0 -1.0
Jose Lobatón 33 FA-elig 22 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Chris Flexen 23 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
Chris Beck↔ CHW 27 pre-arb 6 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
Jacob Rhame 25 pre-arb 30 -0.3 0.5 -1.7
Adrián González 36 FA-elig 54 -0.4 0.5 -1.7
Anthony Swarzak 32 FA-elig 29 -0.4 5.5 -6.8
José Reyes 35 FA-elig 110 -0.4 2.0 -3.4
Jay Bruce 31 FA-elig 94 -0.5 11.0 -12.6
Tim Peterson 27 – 22 -0.5 0.3 -1.9
Dominic Smith 23 pre-arb 56 -0.5 0.2 -1.8
Corey Oswalt 24 – 17 -0.5 0.3 -2.0
Matthew den Dekker 30 – 8 -0.6 – –
Hansel Robles↔ ANA 27 arb 16 -0.7 0.3 -2.6

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 55 of them (98%). 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.