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GM: Neal Huntington (since 2008)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.2
WAB — wins above budget
+9.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
88–74 (0.543)
record · made playoffs
+35M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.6
roster fWAR
$81.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Andrew McCutchen 27 arb 146 7.4 7.2 +14.3
Russell Martin 31 FA-elig 111 6.1 8.5 +9.4
Josh Harrison 26 arb 143 4.8 0.5 +13.5
Starling Marte 25 pre-arb 135 4.5 0.5 +12.6
Neil Walker 28 arb 137 4.1 5.8 +6.2
Gerrit Cole 23 pre-arb 23 2.4 0.5 +6.4
Jordy Mercer 27 pre-arb 149 2.0 0.5 +5.2
Mark Melancon 29 arb 72 1.9 2.6 +3.0
Travis Snider 26 FA-elig 140 1.6 1.2 +3.4
Francisco Liriano 30 FA-elig 29 1.6 6.0 -1.5
Chris Stewart 32 FA-elig 49 1.5 1.0 +3.5
Tony Watson 29 arb 78 1.4 0.5 +3.5
Vance Worley 26 pre-arb 20 1.2 0.3 +3.3
Charlie Morton 30 FA-elig 26 1.0 4.0 -1.0
Brandon Cumpton 25 pre-arb 16 0.9 0.5 +2.1
Gregory Polanco 22 – 89 0.5 0.3 +1.1
Edinson Volquez 30 FA-elig 32 0.3 5.0 -4.0
Clint Barmes 35 FA-elig 48 0.3 2.0 -1.1
Pedro Álvarez 27 arb 122 0.3 4.2 -3.3
Ike Davis↔ NYM 27 arb 131 0.2 3.2 -2.5
John Holdzkom 26 – 9 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Travis Ishikawa↔ SFG 30 – 15 0.2 0.0 +0.5
Justin Wilson 26 pre-arb 70 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Tony Sanchez 26 pre-arb 26 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Jeff Locke 26 arb 21 0.1 0.5 -0.3
John Axford↔ CLE 31 arb 13 0.1 0.9 -0.8
Andrew Lambo 25 pre-arb 21 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Gaby Sanchez 30 FA-elig 123 0.0 2.3 -2.2
Casey Sadler 23 arb 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Bobby LaFromboise 28 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Chase d'Arnaud 27 – 8 -0.1 – –
Matt Hague 28 – 3 -0.1 – –
Jaff Decker 24 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Stolmy Pimentel 24 pre-arb 20 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Brent Morel 27 pre-arb 23 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Vin Mazzaro 27 arb 5 -0.2 0.9 -1.7
Ernesto Frieri↔ ANA 28 arb 14 -0.3 1.1 -1.9
Jared Hughes 28 pre-arb 63 -0.4 0.4 -1.5
Jeanmar Gómez 26 arb 44 -0.4 0.5 -1.6
Michael Martinez 31 – 26 -0.4 – –
Jose Tabata 25 arb 80 -0.4 3.0 -4.3
Jayson Nix↔ KCR 31 FA-elig 16 -0.5 0.4 -1.7
Jason Grilli↔ ANA 37 FA-elig 22 -0.5 1.5 -3.0
Wandy Rodriguez 35 FA-elig 6 -0.7 13.0 -15.2
Bryan Morris↔ MIA 27 pre-arb 21 -0.8 0.2 -2.5

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 of them (93%). 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.