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GM: Ed Wade (since 1998)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.7
WAB — wins above budget
+2.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
77–85 (0.475)
record
+9M
surplus $M (value/$)
31.2
roster fWAR
$31.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Bobby Abreu 25 arb 152 6.3 0.4 +7.6
Scott Rolen 24 arb 112 4.8 1.0 +5.0
Doug Glanville 28 arb 150 4.5 0.5 +5.1
Mike Lieberthal 27 arb 145 4.2 2.2 +3.1
Curt Schilling 32 FA-elig 24 3.3 5.2 -1.1
Ron Gant 34 FA-elig 138 2.5 6.0 -2.8
Carlton Loewer 25 pre-arb 20 1.6 0.2 +1.8
Rob Ducey 34 FA-elig 104 1.5 0.4 +1.5
Rico Brogna 29 FA-elig 157 1.1 3.2 -1.8
Randy Wolf 22 pre-arb 22 1.0 0.2 +1.1
Kevin Jordan 29 arb 120 0.9 0.6 +0.6
Robert Person↔ TOR 29 arb 31 0.7 0.3 +0.5
Scott Aldred↔ TBR 31 FA-elig 29 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Alex Arias 31 FA-elig 118 0.4 0.6 -0.1
Joe Grahe 31 FA-elig 13 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Paul Byrd 28 arb 32 0.4 0.3 +0.2
Wendell Magee 26 arb 12 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Steve Schrenk 30 pre-arb 32 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Jeff Brantley 35 FA-elig 10 0.2 2.8 -2.6
Anthony Shumaker 26 – 8 0.1 – –
Jim Poole↔ CLE 33 FA-elig 51 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Yorkis Perez 31 FA-elig 35 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Billy Brewer 31 FA-elig 25 0.1 0.3 -0.3
Wayne Gomes 26 pre-arb 73 0.0 0.3 -0.2
Steve Montgomery 28 arb 53 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Paul Spoljaric↔ TOR 28 arb 5 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Kevin Sefcik 28 arb 111 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Tom Prince 34 FA-elig 4 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Amaury Telemaco↔ ARI 25 arb 44 -0.1 0.3 -0.4
Cliff Politte 25 – 13 -0.1 – –
Mike Grace 29 arb 27 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Torey Lovullo 33 – 17 -0.1 – –
David Doster 28 arb 99 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Ken Ryan 30 FA-elig 15 -0.1 0.6 -0.8
Bobby Estalella 24 arb 9 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Desi Relaford 25 arb 65 -0.3 0.3 -0.6
Gary Bennett 27 arb 36 -0.4 0.2 -0.7
Marlon Anderson 25 pre-arb 129 -0.4 0.2 -0.7
Domingo Cedeno↔ SEA 30 – 32 -0.4 – –
Joel Bennett 29 – 5 -0.8 – –
Chad Ogea 28 arb 36 -0.8 1.8 -2.8

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (88%). 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 PHI
Bobby Abreu199745.3
Curt Schilling199236.3
J. T. Realmuto201925.7
Von Hayes198222.3
John Kruk198918.4
Cristopher Sánchez201916.2
Odúbel Herrera201413.2
Tommy Greene19909.4
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Ryne Sandberg198248.2
Carlos Carrasco200925.5
Curt Schilling200021.4
J. P. Crawford201817.8
George Bell198016.7
Gavin Floyd200615.3
Julio Franco198213.3
Adam Eaton199911.6
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.