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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2001 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.9
WAB — wins above budget
+1.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–65 (0.594)
record · won pennant
-44M
surplus $M (value/$)
43.4
roster fWAR
$116.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Mussina 32 FA-elig 34 6.9 10.0 +1.1
Andy Pettitte 29 FA-elig 31 5.7 7.0 +2.2
Roger Clemens 38 FA-elig 33 5.6 10.3 -1.2
Bernie Williams 32 FA-elig 146 4.8 12.4 -4.6
Derek Jeter 27 FA-elig 150 4.2 12.6 -5.8
Jorge Posada 30 FA-elig 138 3.5 4.0 +1.6
Mariano Rivera 31 FA-elig 71 3.2 9.2 -3.9
Scott Brosius 34 FA-elig 120 2.2 5.2 -1.6
Tino Martinez 33 FA-elig 154 2.1 6.3 -2.8
Mike Stanton 34 FA-elig 76 1.7 2.5 +0.3
Ramiro Mendoza 29 arb 56 1.7 1.6 +1.1
Shane Spencer 29 arb 80 1.5 0.3 +2.1
Ted Lilly 25 – 26 0.8 – –
Chuck Knoblauch 32 FA-elig 137 0.7 6.0 -4.8
Sterling Hitchcock↔ SDP 30 FA-elig 10 0.6 4.6 -3.6
Paul O'Neill 38 FA-elig 137 0.6 7.2 -6.3
David Justice 35 FA-elig 111 0.6 7.8 -6.9
Jay Witasick↔ SDP 28 arb 32 0.5 0.4 +0.4
Brian Boehringer↔ SFG 31 FA-elig 22 0.4 0.2 +0.5
Randy Velarde↔ TEX 38 FA-elig 15 0.3 0.5 -0.1
Randy Choate 25 pre-arb 37 0.3 0.2 +0.3
Enrique Wilson↔ PIT 27 arb 48 0.3 0.3 +0.1
Mark Wohlers↔ CIN 31 FA-elig 31 0.2 0.3 +0.1
Alfonso Soriano 25 pre-arb 158 0.1 0.6 -0.5
Erick Almonte 23 – 8 0.1 – –
Orlando Hernandez 35 arb 17 0.1 2.0 -1.9
Todd Williams 30 FA-elig 15 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Darren Bragg↔ NYM 31 – 5 0.0 – –
Donzell McDonald II 26 – 5 0.0 – –
Bobby Estalella↔ SFG 26 arb 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Carlos Almánzar 27 arb 10 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Scott Seabol 26 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Nick Johnson 22 – 23 -0.0 – –
Juan Rivera 22 – 3 -0.1 – –
Robert Perez↔ MIL 32 – 6 -0.1 – –
Christian Parker 25 pre-arb 1 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Joe Oliver↔ BOS 35 FA-elig 12 -0.2 0.8 -1.1
Henry Rodriguez 33 FA-elig 5 -0.2 1.5 -1.8
Brett Jodie↔ SDP 24 – 1 -0.3 – –
Brandon Knight 25 – 4 -0.4 – –
Clay Bellinger 32 pre-arb 51 -0.5 0.2 -1.0
Adrian Hernandez 26 – 6 -0.5 – –
Michael Coleman 25 arb 12 -0.5 0.2 -1.0
Randy Keisler 25 – 10 -0.5 – –
Luis Sojo 36 FA-elig 39 -0.6 0.5 -1.4
Gerald Williams↔ TBR 34 FA-elig 38 -0.6 1.1 -2.0
Todd Greene 30 – 35 -0.8 – –

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (74%). 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.