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GM: Brodie Van Wagenen (since 2019)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.1
WAB — wins above budget
+10.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–76 (0.531)
record
+23M
surplus $M (value/$)
43.4
roster fWAR
$119.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jacob deGrom 31 arb 33 7.6 9.0 +15.8
Zack Wheeler 29 FA-elig 31 5.2 6.0 +11.0
Jeff McNeil 27 pre-arb 133 4.8 0.6 +15.1
Pete Alonso 24 pre-arb 161 4.7 0.6 +14.9
Noah Syndergaard 26 arb 32 4.3 6.0 +8.2
Michael Conforto 26 arb 151 4.1 4.0 +9.5
J.D. Davis 26 pre-arb 140 2.6 0.6 +7.8
Seth Lugo 29 arb 61 2.3 0.6 +7.0
Amed Rosario 23 pre-arb 157 1.9 0.6 +5.7
Steven Matz 28 arb 36 1.9 2.6 +3.6
Todd Frazier 33 FA-elig 133 1.8 9.0 -3.2
Brandon Nimmo 26 arb 69 1.3 0.6 +3.5
Wilson Ramos 31 FA-elig 141 1.2 7.2 -3.4
Robinson Canó 36 FA-elig 107 1.1 24.0 -20.4
Jason Vargas↔ PHI 36 FA-elig 19 0.9 5.1 -2.0
Dominic Smith 24 pre-arb 89 0.8 0.6 +2.2
Marcus Stroman↔ TOR 28 arb 11 0.7 2.5 -0.3
Joe Panik↔ SFG 28 arb 39 0.5 1.0 +0.6
Brad Brach↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 16 0.5 0.5 +1.0
Robert Gsellman 25 arb 52 0.4 0.6 +0.8
Justin Wilson 31 FA-elig 45 0.3 5.0 -4.1
Paul Sewald 29 pre-arb 17 0.2 0.2 +0.7
Luis Guillorme 24 pre-arb 45 0.2 0.6 +0.0
Chris Mazza 29 – 9 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Edwin Díaz 25 arb 66 0.0 0.6 -0.5
Brooks Pounders 28 pre-arb 7 0.0 0.1 -0.0
René Rivera 35 FA-elig 9 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Héctor Santiago↔ CHW 31 FA-elig 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Donnie Hart↔ MIL 28 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Chris Flexen 24 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Sam Haggerty 25 – 11 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Ryan O'Rourke 31 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Daniel Zamora 26 pre-arb 17 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Rajai Davis 38 FA-elig 29 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Stephen Nogosek 24 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Carlos Gómez 33 FA-elig 34 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Walker Lockett 25 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Luis Avilán 29 FA-elig 45 -0.1 1.6 -2.0
Juan Lagares 30 FA-elig 133 -0.1 9.0 -9.4
Jed Lowrie 35 FA-elig 9 -0.1 10.0 -10.5
Tim Peterson 28 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.6 -1.1
Corey Oswalt 25 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Jacob Rhame 26 pre-arb 5 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Jeurys Familia 29 FA-elig 66 -0.2 6.7 -7.4
Aaron Altherr↔ PHI 28 arb 26 -0.2 0.7 -1.5
Rubén Tejada 29 – 6 -0.2 0.0 -0.9
Tomás Nido 25 pre-arb 50 -0.4 0.6 -1.8
Wilmer Font↔ TBR 29 FA-elig 15 -0.4 0.2 -1.6
Adeiny Hechavarría↔ ATL 30 FA-elig 60 -0.4 0.2 -1.6
Keon Broxton↔ BAL 29 arb 34 -0.4 0.2 -1.6
Travis d'Arnaud↔ LAD 30 FA-elig 10 -0.4 0.3 -1.8
Tyler Bashlor 26 pre-arb 24 -0.6 0.2 -2.2
Drew Gagnon 29 pre-arb 18 -1.0 0.2 -3.5

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.