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GM: Neal Huntington (since 2008)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-9.2
WAB — wins above budget
-1.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
62–99 (0.385)
record
+3M
surplus $M (value/$)
23.1
roster fWAR
$40.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Paul Maholm 27 arb 31 3.6 2.5 +5.9
Andrew McCutchen 22 – 108 3.4 – –
Zach Duke 26 arb 33 3.3 2.2 +5.7
Garrett Jones 28 pre-arb 82 2.7 0.4 +6.0
Andy LaRoche 25 pre-arb 150 2.2 0.4 +4.7
Nyjer Morgan↔ WSN 28 pre-arb 71 1.9 0.2 +4.3
Nate McLouth↔ ATL 27 arb 45 1.7 0.9 +3.3
Jack Wilson↔ SEA 31 FA-elig 75 1.6 5.2 -1.4
Freddy Sanchez↔ SFG 31 FA-elig 86 1.5 4.8 -1.2
Charlie Morton 25 – 18 1.5 – –
Ross Ohlendorf 26 pre-arb 29 1.2 0.4 +2.4
Ian Snell↔ SEA 27 arb 16 0.7 1.8 -0.1
Joel Hanrahan↔ WSN 27 pre-arb 33 0.7 0.2 +1.4
Jeff Karstens 26 arb 39 0.4 0.4 +0.7
Lastings Milledge↔ WSN 24 arb 58 0.4 0.4 +0.7
Eric Hinske↔ NYY 31 FA-elig 54 0.4 0.9 +0.2
Evan Meek 26 pre-arb 41 0.3 0.4 +0.4
Kevin Hart↔ CHC 26 pre-arb 10 0.3 0.2 +0.5
Adam LaRoche↔ ATL 29 arb 87 0.2 4.1 -3.5
Ronny Cedeno↔ SEA 26 arb 46 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Steven Jackson 27 pre-arb 40 0.2 0.4 +0.0
Denny Bautista 28 – 14 0.2 – –
Virgil Vasquez 27 – 14 0.2 – –
Tom Gorzelanny↔ CHC 26 arb 9 0.2 0.2 +0.2
Daniel McCutchen 26 – 6 0.1 – –
Jose Ascanio↔ CHC 24 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Chris Bootcheck 30 – 13 0.1 – –
John Grabow↔ CHC 30 FA-elig 45 0.1 1.4 -1.2
Sean Burnett↔ WSN 26 arb 38 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Eric Hacker 26 – 3 0.0 – –
Craig Hansen 25 arb 5 -0.0 0.8 -0.9
Steve Pearce 26 pre-arb 60 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Brian Bixler 26 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
Anthony Claggett↔ NYY 24 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Jesse Chavez 25 pre-arb 73 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Matt Capps 25 arb 57 -0.1 2.4 -2.7
Brandon Moss 25 pre-arb 133 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Delwyn Young 27 – 124 -0.1 – –
Robinzon Diaz 25 – 41 -0.2 – –
Luis Alfonso Cruz 25 pre-arb 27 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Tyler Yates 31 arb 15 -0.2 1.3 -1.8
Ramón Vázquez 32 FA-elig 101 -0.2 1.9 -2.4
Donnie Veal 24 pre-arb 19 -0.3 0.4 -1.0
Jeff Salazar 28 – 21 -0.3 – –
Neil Walker 23 – 17 -0.4 – –
Craig Monroe 32 FA-elig 34 -0.4 0.8 -1.8
Phil Dumatrait 27 pre-arb 15 -0.6 0.4 -1.9
Jason Jaramillo 26 pre-arb 63 -0.7 0.4 -2.0
Ryan Doumit 28 arb 75 -2.3 2.1 -7.6

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (78%). 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.