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GM: Gene Michael (since 1991)

1992 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-7.3
WAB — wins above budget
+0.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
76–86 (0.469)
record
-5M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.1
roster fWAR
$33.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Melido Perez 26 arb 33 5.9 1.2 +3.4
Danny Tartabull 29 FA-elig 123 3.7 5.3 -2.4
Don Mattingly 31 FA-elig 157 2.5 3.6 -1.7
Andy Stankiewicz 27 pre-arb 116 2.3 0.1 +1.7
Scott Kamieniecki 28 pre-arb 28 2.2 0.1 +1.6
Charlie Hayes 27 arb 142 2.2 0.3 +1.4
Mel Hall 31 FA-elig 152 2.0 1.3 +0.3
Bernie Williams 23 pre-arb 62 2.0 0.1 +1.4
Randy Velarde 29 arb 121 1.6 0.4 +0.9
Mike Stanley 29 FA-elig 68 1.4 0.2 +1.0
Roberto Kelly 27 arb 152 1.4 2.1 -1.0
Mike Gallego 31 FA-elig 53 1.3 1.9 -1.0
Steve Farr 35 FA-elig 50 1.1 2.4 -1.6
Rich Monteleone 29 arb 47 1.1 0.1 +0.7
Matt Nokes 28 FA-elig 121 1.0 2.5 -1.7
Scott Sanderson 35 FA-elig 33 0.9 2.1 -1.4
Bob Wickman 23 pre-arb 8 0.7 0.1 +0.5
Curt Young↔ KCR 32 FA-elig 13 0.7 0.2 +0.3
Steve Howe 34 FA-elig 20 0.7 0.7 -0.2
John Habyan 28 FA-elig 56 0.7 0.5 +0.0
Jim Leyritz 28 pre-arb 63 0.6 0.1 +0.3
Gerald Williams 25 pre-arb 15 0.6 0.1 +0.3
Pat Kelly 24 pre-arb 106 0.5 0.1 +0.3
Sam Militello 22 – 9 0.5 – –
Dion James 29 FA-elig 67 0.3 0.4 -0.1
Hensley Meulens 25 arb 2 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Kevin Maas 27 pre-arb 98 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Russ Springer 23 – 14 0.1 – –
Jeff Johnson 25 pre-arb 13 0.1 0.1 -0.0
J.T. Snow 24 – 7 0.1 – –
Dave Silvestri 24 – 7 0.0 – –
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

40 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (80%). 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 NYY
Rickey Henderson198426.6
David Cone199516.6
Tino Martinez199516.0
Gleyber Torres201615.9
Willie Randolph197514.7
Nick Swisher200814.4
Giancarlo Stanton201711.1
Randy Velarde198710.1
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Rickey Henderson198926.8
Doug Drabek198621.4
Fred McGriff198219.7
Greg Gagne198215.6
Austin Jackson200914.8
Jake Westbrook200013.5
Eric Milton199813.4
Nick Johnson200310.5
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.