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GM: Gene Michael (since 1991)

1993 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.9
WAB — wins above budget
+6.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
88–74 (0.543)
record
-9M
surplus $M (value/$)
44.6
roster fWAR
$43.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jimmy Key 32 FA-elig 34 5.2 4.9 -0.6
Mike Stanley 30 FA-elig 130 4.9 0.7 +3.3
Mike Gallego 32 FA-elig 119 4.5 1.6 +2.1
Wade Boggs 35 FA-elig 143 3.3 3.0 -0.2
Jim Leyritz 29 arb 95 3.1 0.2 +2.4
Don Mattingly 32 FA-elig 134 2.9 3.8 -1.4
Danny Tartabull 30 FA-elig 138 2.9 5.0 -2.7
Paul O'Neill 30 FA-elig 141 2.6 3.8 -1.7
Melido Perez 27 FA-elig 25 2.4 2.5 -0.5
Jim Abbott 25 arb 32 2.3 2.4 -0.5
Bernie Williams 24 pre-arb 139 2.2 0.1 +1.7
Randy Velarde 30 FA-elig 85 2.2 1.1 +0.7
Pat Kelly 25 pre-arb 127 1.9 0.2 +1.4
Dion James 30 – 115 1.2 – –
Scott Kamieniecki 29 pre-arb 30 1.1 0.1 +0.7
Bob Wickman 24 pre-arb 41 0.9 0.1 +0.6
Bobby Munoz 25 – 38 0.6 – –
Matt Nokes 29 FA-elig 76 0.5 2.5 -2.1
Dave Silvestri 25 pre-arb 7 0.4 0.1 +0.2
Sterling Hitchcock 22 pre-arb 6 0.4 0.1 +0.2
Frank Tanana↔ NYM 39 FA-elig 3 0.3 0.1 +0.1
Paul Assenmacher↔ CHC 32 FA-elig 26 0.3 1.0 -0.8
Paul Gibson↔ NYM 33 arb 20 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Spike Owen 32 FA-elig 103 0.2 2.2 -2.1
Lee Smith↔ STL 35 FA-elig 8 0.2 0.3 -0.2
Hensley Meulens 26 – 30 0.2 – –
John Habyan↔ KCR 29 FA-elig 36 0.2 0.4 -0.3
Kevin Maas 28 arb 59 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Mark Hutton 23 – 7 0.0 – –
Mike Witt 32 FA-elig 9 -0.0 2.2 -2.2
Mike Humphreys 26 pre-arb 25 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Domingo Jean 24 – 10 -0.0 – –
Sam Militello 23 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Andy Stankiewicz 28 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Andy Cook 25 – 4 -0.1 – –
Jeff Johnson 26 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Steve Howe 35 FA-elig 51 -0.2 2.5 -2.6
Gerald Williams 26 pre-arb 42 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Neal Heaton 33 FA-elig 18 -0.4 0.2 -0.6
Rich Monteleone 30 FA-elig 42 -0.5 0.2 -0.7
Steve Farr 36 FA-elig 49 -0.7 1.5 -2.1

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (85%). 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.