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GM: Lee Thomas

Overview

REBUILD ↗ rising
cheap & losing · year 2 in this regime · payroll 0.82× league · TAB -2.6
-2.6TAB — talent above budget15th/26
-2.3WAB — realized wins (TAB + luck)14th/26
6.0depth — 2+ WAR regulars16th/26
-5.6dead WAR — sub-replacement drag16th/26
33%dead money %12th/26
0.475win %14th/26
29.1roster fWAR16th/26
-1surplus $M (value vs cost)10th/26
$14Mpayroll $M21st/26

Roster

CFLenny Dykstra 149GSil Campusano 25GVon Hayes 4G
LFJohn Kruk 68GVon Hayes 45GRandy Ready 30G
RFDale Murphy 150GVon Hayes 81GJohn Kruk 21G
SSDickie Thon 148GRod Booker 27G
2BRandy Ready 28GMickey Morandini 25GRod Booker 23G
3BCharlie Hayes 146GDave Hollins 30GRod Booker 10G
1BRicky Jordan 84GJohn Kruk 61GCharlie Hayes 4G
STARTERSPat Combs 2.1WARTerry Mulholland 2.0WARJose De Jesus 1.0WARJason Grimsley 0.7WARBruce Ruffin 0.7WAR
CDarren Daulton 139GSteve Lake 28GTom Nieto 17G
BULLPEN★ Roger McDowell 22svDarrel Akerfelds 0hJoe Boever 0hDon Carman 0hChuck McElroy 0hChuck Malone 0hSteve Ontiveros 0hTodd Frohwirth 0h
CDarren Daulton 139 · Steve Lake 28 · Tom Nieto 17
1BRicky Jordan 84 · John Kruk 61 · Charlie Hayes 4
2BRandy Ready 28 · Mickey Morandini 25 · Rod Booker 23
3BCharlie Hayes 146 · Dave Hollins 30 · Rod Booker 10
SSDickie Thon 148 · Rod Booker 27
LFJohn Kruk 68 · Von Hayes 45 · Randy Ready 30
CFLenny Dykstra 149 · Sil Campusano 25 · Von Hayes 4
RFDale Murphy 150 · Von Hayes 81 · John Kruk 21
SPPat Combs 2.1 · Terry Mulholland 2.0 · Jose De Jesus 1.0 · Jason Grimsley 0.7 · Bruce Ruffin 0.7
BP★ Roger McDowell 22 · Darrel Akerfelds 0 · Joe Boever 0 · Don Carman 0 · Chuck McElroy 0 · Chuck Malone 0 · Steve Ontiveros 0 · Todd Frohwirth 0

Each position lists its starter then backups by games (so platoons & bench show). Starters (mound) & bullpen (left, foul territory) are ranked by WAR; ★ marks the closer (most save chances). MLB Stats API.

1990 roster — value & surplus

PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Lenny Dykstra 27 arb 1499.0 0.7 +3.3
Darren Daulton 28 FA-elig 1434.4 0.4 +1.5
Von Hayes 31 FA-elig 1293.4 2.0 -0.5
John Kruk 29 arb 1422.7 0.7 +0.6
Pat Combs 23 pre-arb 322.1 0.1 +0.8
Terry Mulholland 27 arb 332.0 0.1 +0.7
Dickie Thon 32 FA-elig 1491.4 1.1 -0.5
Joe Boever↔ ATL 29 arb 341.3 0.1 +0.5
Jose De Jesus 25 – 221.0 – –
Dennis Cook↔ LAD 27 pre-arb 430.9 0.1 +0.3
Roger McDowell 29 arb 720.7 1.4 -1.1
Charlie Hayes 25 pre-arb 1520.7 0.1 +0.2
Jason Grimsley 22 pre-arb 120.7 0.1 +0.2
Bruce Ruffin 26 arb 320.7 0.3 -0.1
Carmelo Martinez↔ PIT 29 FA-elig 710.7 0.6 -0.3
Dale Murphy↔ ATL 34 FA-elig 570.6 0.7 -0.5
Tom Herr↔ NYM 34 FA-elig 1190.5 0.7 -0.4
Randy Ready 30 FA-elig 1010.5 0.5 -0.3
Ken Howell 29 FA-elig 180.4 0.7 -0.5
Ron Jones 26 pre-arb 240.2 0.1 -0.0
Wes Chamberlain 24 – 180.2 – –
Chuck McElroy 22 pre-arb 160.2 0.1 -0.0
Tommy Greene↔ ATL 23 pre-arb 100.1 0.1 -0.0
Jeff Parrett↔ ATL 28 arb 470.1 0.5 -0.4
Jim Vatcher↔ ATL 25 pre-arb 360.1 0.1 -0.0
Steve Lake 33 FA-elig 290.1 0.3 -0.3
Steve Ontiveros 29 arb 50.0 0.1 -0.1
Mickey Morandini 24 pre-arb 250.0 0.1 -0.1
Sil Campusano 24 pre-arb 660.0 0.1 -0.1
Dickie Noles 33 – 10.0 – –
Brad Moore 26 pre-arb 3-0.0 0.1 -0.1
Tom Nieto 29 FA-elig 17-0.1 0.1 -0.2
Curt Ford 29 arb 22-0.1 0.2 -0.3
Chuck Malone 24 pre-arb 7-0.2 0.1 -0.2
Louie Meadows↔ HOU 29 arb 15-0.2 0.1 -0.1
Todd Frohwirth 27 arb 5-0.2 0.1 -0.2
Marvin Freeman↔ ATL 27 – 16-0.2 – –
Darrin Fletcher↔ LAD 23 pre-arb 9-0.4 0.1 -0.3
Rod Booker 31 arb 73-0.6 0.1 -0.4
Ricky Jordan 25 pre-arb 92-0.6 0.2 -0.5
Dave Hollins 24 pre-arb 72-0.7 0.1 -0.4
Don Carman 30 FA-elig 59-0.8 0.5 -0.9
Darrel Akerfelds 28 arb 71-1.3 0.1 -0.7

Key additions (new vs 1989)

PlayerfWAR
Joe Boever1.3
Jose De Jesus1.0
Carmelo Martinez0.7
Dale Murphy0.6
Wes Chamberlain0.2
Tommy Greene0.1

Key subtractions (gone from 1989)

Player1989 fWAR
Larry McWilliams1.2
Steve Jeltz1.1
Dwayne Murphy0.5
Mike Maddux0.3
Jim Adduci0.1
Gordon Dillard0.1

Current & Historical Payroll

1990 payroll
$13.9M

What the front office was committed to as of 1990, 1990–1996. Pre-2015 has no contract-terms data — forward italic $ are realized actuals (hindsight, not commitments known then). Control labels (ARB/FA) are point-in-time.

current $ guaranteed $ actual $ (hindsight) arbitration (proj) pre-arb (proj) free agent

Guaranteed / signed (12)

PlayerAgeSvc1990199119921993199419951996
Von Hayes319.000$2.0M$2.2MFREE AGENT
Dickie Thon3211.000$1.1M$1.2MFREE AGENT
Dale Murphy3414.000$740k$2.5M$2.5MFREE AGENT
Ken Howell296.000$717kFREE AGENT
Tom Herr3411.000$672kFREE AGENT
Carmelo Martinez297.000$599kFREE AGENT
Randy Ready307.000$520k$600kFREE AGENT$150k
Don Carman307.000$500kFREE AGENT
Darren Daulton287.000$425k$1.9M$2.6M$2.5M$2.3M$5.3M$5.2M
Steve Lake337.000$340k$390kFREE AGENT
Tom Nieto296.000$128kFREE AGENT
Dickie Noles3311.000—FREE AGENT

Arbitration-eligible (14)

PlayerAgeSvc1990199119921993199419951996
Roger McDowell295.000$1.4MFREE AGENT
Lenny Dykstra275.000$700kFREE AGENT
John Kruk294.000$655kARB 3FREE AGENT
Jeff Parrett284.000$456kARB 3FREE AGENT
Bruce Ruffin264.000$350kARB 3FREE AGENT
Curt Ford295.000$195kFREE AGENT
Steve Ontiveros295.000$150kFREE AGENT
Terry Mulholland274.000$150kARB 3FREE AGENT
Rod Booker313.000$110kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Todd Frohwirth273.000$110kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Joe Boever295.000$109kFREE AGENT
Darrel Akerfelds284.000$109kARB 3FREE AGENT
Louie Meadows294.000$50kARB 3FREE AGENT
Marvin Freeman274.000—ARB 3FREE AGENT

Pre-arbitration (17)

PlayerAgeSvc1990199119921993199419951996
Ricky Jordan252.000$215kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Charlie Hayes252.000$120kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Ron Jones262.000$120kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Pat Combs231.000$112kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Dennis Cook272.000$108kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Chuck McElroy221.000$105kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jason Grimsley221.000$105kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Sil Campusano242.000$100kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Brad Moore262.000$100kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Mickey Morandini240.000$100kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Dave Hollins240.000$100kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Chuck Malone240.000$100kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Darrin Fletcher231.000$82kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Tommy Greene231.000$67kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jim Vatcher250.000$63kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Wes Chamberlain240.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jose De Jesus252.000—ARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT

Graphs

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR. Bars = Phillies 1990; the black line = the league-average player at each slot that season. Staying above the line deep into the roster is the depth edge; dropping below it = holes & dead weight.

What each regime is worth — every settled team-season since 1985

RegimeSeasonsWin %Playoff %Pennant %WS %
WINDOW 28152.131.05.01.1
CONTEND 30056.964.719.710.3
FORCED-SPEND 25648.09.81.61.6
REBUILD 32143.31.20.30.3
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.