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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2000 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-2.5
WAB — wins above budget
-3.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
87–74 (0.540)
record · World Series champions
-47M
surplus $M (value/$)
38.1
roster fWAR
$102.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jorge Posada 29 arb 151 6.1 1.2 +7.4
Bernie Williams 31 FA-elig 141 4.9 12.4 -5.4
Andy Pettitte 28 arb 32 3.8 7.0 -1.6
Derek Jeter 26 arb 148 3.7 10.0 -4.8
Roger Clemens 37 FA-elig 32 3.6 6.3 -1.3
David Justice↔ CLE 34 FA-elig 78 3.2 3.7 +0.8
Orlando Hernandez 34 pre-arb 29 2.3 1.9 +1.3
Mariano Rivera 30 arb 66 1.9 7.2 -4.5
Mike Stanton 33 FA-elig 69 1.7 2.4 -0.0
Paul O'Neill 37 FA-elig 142 1.5 6.5 -4.4
Glenallen Hill↔ CHC 35 FA-elig 40 1.4 0.6 +1.4
Jeff Nelson 33 FA-elig 73 1.3 1.9 -0.1
David Cone 37 FA-elig 30 1.0 12.0 -10.6
Denny Neagle↔ CIN 31 FA-elig 16 0.8 2.2 -1.0
Shane Spencer 28 pre-arb 73 0.6 0.2 +0.6
Ramiro Mendoza 28 arb 14 0.5 1.4 -0.7
Dwight Gooden↔ HOU 35 FA-elig 18 0.4 0.3 +0.3
Jason Grimsley 32 FA-elig 63 0.4 0.8 -0.2
Ricky Ledee↔ CLE 26 pre-arb 62 0.4 0.1 +0.4
Luis Sojo↔ PIT 34 FA-elig 34 0.3 0.2 +0.3
Chuck Knoblauch 31 FA-elig 102 0.3 6.0 -5.6
Tino Martinez 32 FA-elig 155 0.2 4.8 -4.5
Todd Erdos↔ SDP 26 arb 14 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Jose Canseco↔ TBR 35 FA-elig 37 0.2 1.1 -0.9
Clay Bellinger 31 pre-arb 98 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Craig Dingman 26 – 10 0.1 – –
Ryan Thompson 32 – 33 0.1 – –
Scott Brosius 33 FA-elig 135 0.1 5.2 -5.1
Ted Lilly 24 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Randy Keisler 24 – 4 0.0 – –
Darrell Einertson 27 – 11 0.0 – –
Luis Polonia↔ DET 36 FA-elig 37 -0.0 0.3 -0.4
Ben Ford 24 – 4 -0.0 – –
Lance Johnson 36 FA-elig 18 -0.0 0.3 -0.4
Randy Choate 24 pre-arb 22 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Jake Westbrook 22 – 3 -0.1 – –
Jay Tessmer 28 – 7 -0.1 – –
Ed Yarnall 24 – 2 -0.2 – –
Chris Turner 31 FA-elig 37 -0.2 0.4 -0.6
Wilson Delgado↔ KCR 27 arb 31 -0.2 0.1 -0.4
Jose Vizcaino↔ LAD 32 FA-elig 73 -0.2 2.3 -2.5
Felix Jose 35 – 20 -0.3 – –
Jim Leyritz↔ LAD 36 FA-elig 24 -0.3 0.4 -0.9
Allen Watson 29 FA-elig 17 -0.4 1.3 -1.9
Alfonso Soriano 24 – 22 -0.5 – –
Roberto Kelly 35 FA-elig 10 -0.5 0.8 -1.6

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (78%). 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
Gleyber Torres201615.9
Tino Martinez199515.8
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.