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President of baseball ops: David Stearns (since 2024)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.6
WAB — wins above budget
-1.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
89–73 (0.549)
record · made playoffs
-102M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.4
roster fWAR
$266.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Francisco Lindor 30 FA-elig 152 7.7 34.1 -2.1
Mark Vientos 24 pre-arb 111 2.9 0.7 +11.3
Sean Manaea 32 FA-elig 32 2.8 14.5 -2.9
Brandon Nimmo 31 FA-elig 151 2.8 20.5 -9.0
Jose Iglesias 34 FA-elig 85 2.5 1.0 +9.6
Luis Severino 30 FA-elig 31 2.1 13.0 -4.2
Pete Alonso 29 arb 162 2.1 20.5 -11.9
David Peterson 28 arb 21 1.9 2.1 +5.7
Francisco Alvarez 22 pre-arb 100 1.9 0.8 +7.0
Tylor Megill 28 arb 16 1.4 0.8 +5.1
Jeff McNeil 32 FA-elig 129 1.3 10.2 -5.0
Harrison Bader 30 FA-elig 143 1.2 10.5 -5.4
Edwin Díaz 30 FA-elig 55 1.1 21.2 -16.8
Jose Quintana 35 FA-elig 31 1.1 13.0 -8.6
Tyrone Taylor 30 arb 130 1.0 2.0 +2.2
José Buttó 26 pre-arb 30 1.0 0.7 +3.3
Dedniel Núñez 28 pre-arb 25 0.9 0.7 +3.2
Reed Garrett 31 arb 53 0.9 0.7 +3.0
Luis Torrens 28 arb 48 0.8 0.8 +2.5
Luisangel Acuña 22 – 14 0.7 0.1 +2.9
Phil Maton↔ TBR 31 FA-elig 31 0.7 2.7 +0.1
Starling Marte 35 FA-elig 94 0.6 20.8 -18.3
J.D. Martinez 36 FA-elig 120 0.6 12.0 -9.5
Brett Baty 24 pre-arb 50 0.5 0.8 +1.2
Adam Ottavino 38 FA-elig 60 0.5 4.5 -2.6
Christian Scott 25 pre-arb 9 0.4 0.7 +1.1
Tomás Nido↔ CHC 30 FA-elig 32 0.4 1.4 +0.4
Sean Reid-Foley 28 pre-arb 23 0.4 0.8 +0.9
Brooks Raley 36 FA-elig 8 0.3 6.5 -5.2
Drew Smith 30 FA-elig 19 0.2 2.2 -1.3
Danny Young 30 pre-arb 42 0.2 0.7 -0.1
Paul Blackburn↔ OAK 30 FA-elig 5 0.1 1.2 -0.6
Kodai Senga 31 pre-arb 1 0.1 15.0 -14.4
Yohan Ramírez↔ BAL 29 – 5 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Jesse Winker↔ WSN 30 FA-elig 44 0.1 0.6 -0.4
Josh Walker 29 pre-arb 10 0.0 0.7 -0.6
Tyler Jay↔ MIL 30 – 3 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Eddy Alvarez 34 pre-arb 13 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Joe Hudson 33 FA-elig 1 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Matt Festa↔ TEX 31 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Cole Sulser↔ TBR 34 – 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Pablo Reyes↔ BOS 30 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Huascar Brazobán↔ MIA 34 pre-arb 19 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Joey Lucchesi 31 FA-elig 2 -0.0 1.6 -1.8
Alex Young↔ CIN 30 arb 14 -0.0 1.0 -1.1
Ryne Stanek↔ SEA 32 FA-elig 17 -0.1 1.1 -1.3
Jorge López↔ CHC 31 FA-elig 28 -0.1 1.1 -1.4
Julio Teheran 33 – 1 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Ben Gamel↔ HOU 32 – 18 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Grant Hartwig 26 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.7 -1.1
Zack Short↔ ATL 29 arb 10 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Eric Orze 26 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Adrian Houser 31 FA-elig 23 -0.1 5.0 -5.6
Michael Tonkin↔ MIN 34 FA-elig 5 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
DJ Stewart 30 FA-elig 74 -0.2 1.4 -2.3
Joey Wendle 34 FA-elig 18 -0.2 2.0 -3.0
Ty Adcock 27 pre-arb 3 -0.4 0.7 -2.5
Jake Diekman 37 FA-elig 43 -0.8 4.0 -7.4
Omar Narváez 32 FA-elig 28 -1.0 7.0 -11.2

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.