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GM: Cam Bonifay (since 1993)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.8
WAB — wins above budget
+3.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–83 (0.484)
record
+14M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.9
roster fWAR
$23.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brian Giles 28 arb 141 6.7 1.1 +7.3
Kevin Young 30 FA-elig 156 5.3 2.1 +4.5
Jason Kendall 25 arb 78 3.9 1.2 +3.6
Kris Benson 24 pre-arb 31 3.4 0.2 +4.1
Todd Ritchie 27 pre-arb 29 2.8 0.2 +3.3
Jason Schmidt 26 arb 33 2.6 1.4 +1.9
Francisco Cordova 27 arb 27 2.3 1.2 +1.7
Warren Morris 25 pre-arb 147 1.9 0.2 +2.2
Al Martin 31 FA-elig 143 1.9 2.7 -0.3
Mike Benjamin 33 FA-elig 110 1.2 0.7 +0.8
Jose Silva 25 arb 34 1.2 0.3 +1.3
Marc Wilkins 28 arb 46 0.5 0.7 -0.1
Jason Christiansen 29 arb 40 0.4 0.7 -0.2
Ed Sprague Jr. 31 FA-elig 137 0.4 1.3 -0.8
Jimmy Anderson 23 pre-arb 13 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Greg Hansell 28 arb 33 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Mike Williams 30 FA-elig 58 0.3 0.7 -0.3
Scott Sauerbeck 27 pre-arb 65 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Pat Meares 30 FA-elig 21 0.2 1.5 -1.3
Jeff Wallace 23 pre-arb 41 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Pete Schourek 30 FA-elig 30 0.1 2.0 -1.8
Ivan Cruz 31 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Mike Garcia 31 – 7 0.1 – –
Jason Boyd 26 – 4 0.1 – –
Dale Sveum 35 FA-elig 49 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Brad Clontz 28 arb 56 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Tim Laker 29 – 6 -0.0 – –
Jim Dougherty 31 – 2 -0.0 – –
Yamid Haad 21 – 1 -0.0 – –
Rich Loiselle 27 arb 13 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
Emil Brown 24 – 6 -0.1 – –
Turner Ward↔ ARI 34 FA-elig 49 -0.2 0.7 -0.9
Aramis Ramirez 21 – 18 -0.2 – –
Chris Tremie 29 – 9 -0.2 – –
Jason Phillips 25 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Chris Peters 27 arb 19 -0.2 0.3 -0.6
Chad Hermansen 21 – 19 -0.2 – –
Abraham O. Nunez 23 pre-arb 90 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Adrian Brown 25 pre-arb 116 -0.5 0.2 -0.8
Joe Oliver 33 FA-elig 45 -0.6 0.3 -1.1
Freddy Garcia↔ ATL 26 arb 55 -0.7 0.3 -1.1
Jose Guillen↔ TBR 23 pre-arb 40 -0.7 0.2 -1.1
John Wehner 32 FA-elig 39 -0.8 0.2 -1.3
Keith Osik 30 arb 66 -0.9 0.3 -1.5
Brant Brown 28 arb 130 -1.5 0.3 -2.2

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (80%). 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 PIT
Andy Van Slyke198731.1
Brian Giles199825.4
Doug Drabek198621.4
Bobby Bonilla198620.6
Bryan Reynolds201820.0
Mike LaValliere198712.9
Josh Harrison200911.9
Jack Wilson200011.0
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Aramis Ramírez200325.0
Jason Schmidt200123.6
Brian Giles200317.1
Willie Randolph197514.7
Moisés Alou199013.8
John Tudor198412.0
Randy Milligan198811.9
Bip Roberts198511.1
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.