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GM: Gene Michael

Overview

CONTEND ↗ rising
expensive & winning · year 1 in this regime · payroll 1.11× league · TAB +0.6
+0.6TAB — talent above budget15th/26
-7.3WAB — realized wins (TAB + luck)18th/26
7.0depth — 2+ WAR regulars11th/26
-2.7dead WAR — sub-replacement drag4th/26
23%dead money %7th/26
0.469win %16th/26
36.1roster fWAR11th/26
-5surplus $M (value vs cost)15th/26
$33Mpayroll $M8th/26

Roster

CFRoberto Kelly 99GBernie Williams 55GDion James 12G
LFMel Hall 99GRoberto Kelly 47GRandy Velarde 14G
RFDanny Tartabull 68GMel Hall 37GJesse Barfield 30G
SSAndy Stankiewicz 81GRandy Velarde 75GMike Gallego 14G
2BPat Kelly 101GMike Gallego 40GAndy Stankiewicz 34G
3BCharlie Hayes 139GRandy Velarde 26GHensley Meulens 2G
1BDon Mattingly 143GKevin Maas 22GJ.T. Snow 6G
STARTERSMelido Perez 5.9WARScott Kamieniecki 2.2WARScott Sanderson 0.9WARCurt Young 0.7WARBob Wickman 0.7WAR
CMatt Nokes 111GMike Stanley 55GJim Leyritz 18G
DHKevin Maas 54GDanny Tartabull 51GJim Leyritz 26G
BULLPEN★ Steve Farr 30svJohn Habyan 0hRich Monteleone 0hTim Burke 0hSteve Howe 0hJerry Nielsen 0hRuss Springer 0hSterling Hitchcock 0h
CMatt Nokes 111 · Mike Stanley 55 · Jim Leyritz 18
1BDon Mattingly 143 · Kevin Maas 22 · J.T. Snow 6
2BPat Kelly 101 · Mike Gallego 40 · Andy Stankiewicz 34
3BCharlie Hayes 139 · Randy Velarde 26 · Hensley Meulens 2
SSAndy Stankiewicz 81 · Randy Velarde 75 · Mike Gallego 14
LFMel Hall 99 · Roberto Kelly 47 · Randy Velarde 14
CFRoberto Kelly 99 · Bernie Williams 55 · Dion James 12
RFDanny Tartabull 68 · Mel Hall 37 · Jesse Barfield 30
DHKevin Maas 54 · Danny Tartabull 51 · Jim Leyritz 26
SPMelido Perez 5.9 · Scott Kamieniecki 2.2 · Scott Sanderson 0.9 · Curt Young 0.7 · Bob Wickman 0.7
BP★ Steve Farr 30 · John Habyan 0 · Rich Monteleone 0 · Tim Burke 0 · Steve Howe 0 · Jerry Nielsen 0 · Russ Springer 0 · Sterling Hitchcock 0

Each position lists its starter then backups by games (so platoons & bench show). Starters (mound) & bullpen (left, foul territory) are ranked by WAR; ★ marks the closer (most save chances). MLB Stats API.

1992 roster — value & surplus

PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Melido Perez 26 arb 335.9 1.2 +3.4
Danny Tartabull 29 FA-elig 1233.7 5.3 -2.4
Don Mattingly 31 FA-elig 1572.5 3.6 -1.7
Andy Stankiewicz 27 pre-arb 1162.3 0.1 +1.7
Scott Kamieniecki 28 pre-arb 282.2 0.1 +1.6
Charlie Hayes 27 arb 1422.2 0.3 +1.4
Mel Hall 31 FA-elig 1522.0 1.3 +0.3
Bernie Williams 23 pre-arb 622.0 0.1 +1.4
Randy Velarde 29 arb 1211.6 0.4 +0.9
Mike Stanley 29 FA-elig 681.4 0.2 +1.0
Roberto Kelly 27 arb 1521.4 2.1 -1.0
Mike Gallego 31 FA-elig 531.3 1.9 -1.0
Steve Farr 35 FA-elig 501.1 2.4 -1.6
Rich Monteleone 29 arb 471.1 0.1 +0.7
Matt Nokes 28 FA-elig 1211.0 2.5 -1.7
Scott Sanderson 35 FA-elig 330.9 2.1 -1.4
Bob Wickman 23 pre-arb 80.7 0.1 +0.5
Curt Young↔ KCR 32 FA-elig 130.7 0.2 +0.3
Steve Howe 34 FA-elig 200.7 0.7 -0.2
John Habyan 28 FA-elig 560.7 0.5 +0.0
Jim Leyritz 28 pre-arb 630.6 0.1 +0.3
Gerald Williams 25 pre-arb 150.6 0.1 +0.3
Pat Kelly 24 pre-arb 1060.5 0.1 +0.3
Sam Militello 22 – 90.5 – –
Dion James 29 FA-elig 670.3 0.4 -0.1
Hensley Meulens 25 arb 20.2 0.1 +0.1
Kevin Maas 27 pre-arb 980.2 0.3 -0.1
Russ Springer 23 – 140.1 – –
Jeff Johnson 25 pre-arb 130.1 0.1 -0.0
J.T. Snow 24 – 70.1 – –
Dave Silvestri 24 – 70.0 – –
Tim Leary↔ SEA 33 FA-elig 18-0.0 1.5 -1.5
Shawn Hillegas↔ OAK 27 – 21-0.0 – –
Sterling Hitchcock 21 – 3-0.1 – –
Jerry Nielsen 25 – 20-0.1 – –
Mike Humphreys 25 – 4-0.2 – –
Tim Burke↔ NYM 33 FA-elig 23-0.2 1.4 -1.5
Greg Cadaret 30 arb 46-0.4 1.2 -1.5
Lee Guetterman↔ NYM 33 FA-elig 15-0.6 0.4 -0.9
Jesse Barfield 32 FA-elig 30-1.1 2.2 -3.0

Key additions (new vs 1991)

PlayerfWAR
Melido Perez5.9
Danny Tartabull3.7
Andy Stankiewicz2.3
Charlie Hayes2.2
Mike Stanley1.4
Mike Gallego1.3

Key subtractions (gone from 1991)

Player1991 fWAR
Steve Sax3.7
Alvaro Espinoza1.3
Pascual Perez1.1
Wade Taylor0.9
Alan Mills0.2
Chuck Cary0.2

Current & Historical Payroll

1992 payroll
$33.3M

What the front office was committed to as of 1992, 1992–1998. Pre-2015 has no contract-terms data — forward italic $ are realized actuals (hindsight, not commitments known then). Control labels (ARB/FA) are point-in-time.

current $ guaranteed $ actual $ (hindsight) arbitration (proj) pre-arb (proj) free agent

Guaranteed / signed (16)

PlayerAgeSvc1992199319941995199619971998
Danny Tartabull298.000$5.3M$5.0M$4.5M$3.8MFREE AGENT
Don Mattingly3110.000$3.6M$3.8M$4.0M$4.4MFREE AGENT
Matt Nokes287.000$2.5M$2.5M$2.5MFREE AGENT
Steve Farr358.000$2.4M$1.5MFREE AGENT
Jesse Barfield3211.000$2.2MFREE AGENT
Scott Sanderson3514.000$2.1MFREE AGENT
Mike Gallego317.000$1.9M$1.6M$1.6MFREE AGENT
Tim Leary3311.000$1.5MFREE AGENT
Tim Burke337.000$1.4MFREE AGENT
Mel Hall3111.000$1.3MFREE AGENT
Steve Howe3412.000$700k$2.5M$2.1M$2.3M$500kFREE AGENT
John Habyan287.000$500k$450kFREE AGENT
Lee Guetterman338.000$414kFREE AGENT
Dion James299.000$388kFREE AGENT$350k
Curt Young329.000$226kFREE AGENT
Mike Stanley296.000$175k$675k$612k$912kFREE AGENT$1.6M

Arbitration-eligible (8)

PlayerAgeSvc1992199319941995199619971998
Roberto Kelly275.000$2.1MFREE AGENT
Greg Cadaret305.000$1.2MFREE AGENT
Melido Perez265.000$1.2MFREE AGENT
Randy Velarde295.000$360kFREE AGENT
Charlie Hayes274.000$280kARB 3FREE AGENT
Hensley Meulens253.000$132kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Rich Monteleone295.000$125kFREE AGENT
Shawn Hillegas275.000—FREE AGENT

Pre-arbitration (16)

PlayerAgeSvc1992199319941995199619971998
Kevin Maas272.000$255kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Pat Kelly241.000$148kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jim Leyritz282.000$126kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Bernie Williams231.000$125kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Scott Kamieniecki281.000$120kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jeff Johnson251.000$115kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Andy Stankiewicz270.000$109kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Bob Wickman230.000$109kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Gerald Williams250.000$109kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Sterling Hitchcock210.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Mike Humphreys251.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Sam Militello220.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jerry Nielsen250.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Dave Silvestri240.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
J.T. Snow240.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Russ Springer230.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT

Graphs

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR. Bars = Yankees 1992; the black line = the league-average player at each slot that season. Staying above the line deep into the roster is the depth edge; dropping below it = holes & dead weight.

What each regime is worth — every settled team-season since 1985

RegimeSeasonsWin %Playoff %Pennant %WS %
WINDOW 28152.131.05.01.1
CONTEND 30056.964.719.710.3
FORCED-SPEND 25648.09.81.61.6
REBUILD 32143.31.20.30.3
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.