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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2003 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.3
WAB — wins above budget
+11.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
101–61 (0.623)
record · won pennant
-48M
surplus $M (value/$)
55.1
roster fWAR
$145.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Mussina 34 FA-elig 31 6.1 12.0 -1.2
Jorge Posada 32 FA-elig 142 6.0 8.0 +2.7
Alfonso Soriano 27 arb 156 5.1 0.8 +8.3
Andy Pettitte 31 FA-elig 33 5.1 11.5 -2.4
Jason Giambi 32 FA-elig 156 5.0 11.4 -2.6
Roger Clemens 40 FA-elig 33 4.5 10.1 -2.1
Derek Jeter 29 FA-elig 119 4.1 15.6 -8.3
David Wells 40 FA-elig 31 3.8 3.2 +3.5
Mariano Rivera 33 FA-elig 64 2.5 10.5 -6.1
Raul Mondesi↔ ARI 32 FA-elig 98 2.4 8.9 -4.7
Nick Johnson 24 pre-arb 96 2.3 0.4 +3.8
Jeff Weaver 26 arb 32 2.2 4.2 -0.2
Jose Contreras 31 pre-arb 18 1.7 5.5 -2.6
Robin Ventura↔ LAD 35 FA-elig 89 1.4 3.2 -0.8
Chris Hammond 37 FA-elig 62 1.3 2.2 +0.1
Juan Rivera 24 – 57 0.9 – –
Antonio Osuna 30 FA-elig 48 0.8 2.4 -1.0
Aaron Boone↔ CIN 30 FA-elig 54 0.6 1.2 -0.3
John Flaherty 35 FA-elig 40 0.4 0.8 -0.1
Jeff Nelson↔ SEA 36 FA-elig 24 0.3 1.4 -0.8
Sterling Hitchcock↔ STL 32 FA-elig 27 0.3 4.6 -4.0
Ruben Sierra↔ TEX 37 FA-elig 63 0.3 0.4 +0.2
Jorge De Paula 24 – 4 0.3 – –
Armando Benitez↔ NYM 30 FA-elig 9 0.3 0.9 -0.4
Hideki Matsui 29 pre-arb 163 0.2 6.0 -5.6
Brandon Claussen 24 – 1 0.1 – –
Chris Latham 30 FA-elig 4 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Al Reyes 33 – 13 0.1 – –
Gabe White↔ CIN 31 FA-elig 12 0.0 0.9 -0.8
Michel Hernandez 24 – 5 0.0 – –
Randy Choate 27 – 5 0.0 – –
Felix Heredia↔ CIN 28 FA-elig 12 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Bernie Williams 34 FA-elig 119 -0.0 12.4 -12.4
Fernando Seguignol 28 – 5 -0.0 – –
Charles Gipson 30 – 18 -0.0 – –
Jesse Orosco↔ MIN 46 FA-elig 15 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Luis Sojo 37 – 3 -0.1 – –
Drew Henson 23 – 5 -0.1 – –
Karim Garcia↔ CLE 27 FA-elig 52 -0.1 0.6 -0.7
Bret Prinz↔ ARI 26 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Bubba Trammell 31 FA-elig 22 -0.2 2.5 -2.8
Jason Anderson↔ NYM 24 pre-arb 22 -0.2 0.2 -0.6
Curtis Pride 34 – 4 -0.2 – –
Juan Acevedo↔ TOR 33 FA-elig 25 -0.2 0.6 -1.0
David Dellucci↔ ARI 29 FA-elig 21 -0.2 0.2 -0.6
Todd Zeile↔ WSN 37 FA-elig 66 -0.3 1.0 -1.5
Dan Miceli↔ CLE 32 FA-elig 7 -0.3 0.0 -0.6
Erick Almonte 25 – 31 -0.5 – –
Enrique Wilson 29 FA-elig 63 -0.6 0.7 -1.7

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (76%). 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.