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GM: Neal Huntington (since 2008)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.8
WAB — wins above budget
-0.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–83 (0.484)
record
-1M
surplus $M (value/$)
31.0
roster fWAR
$102.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Starling Marte 27 arb 129 3.7 3.3 +8.7
Jung Ho Kang 29 pre-arb 103 2.9 2.5 +6.9
Francisco Cervelli 30 FA-elig 101 2.8 3.5 +5.7
Gerrit Cole 25 arb 21 2.7 0.5 +8.3
Jordy Mercer 29 arb 149 2.6 2.1 +6.4
Sean Rodríguez 31 FA-elig 140 2.4 2.5 +5.2
Gregory Polanco 24 pre-arb 144 2.2 0.5 +6.6
Josh Harrison 28 arb 131 1.9 5.2 +0.9
Matt Joyce 31 FA-elig 140 1.8 1.0 +4.8
Iván Nova↔ NYY 29 FA-elig 11 1.8 1.4 +4.4
David Freese 33 FA-elig 141 1.7 3.0 +2.6
Jameson Taillon 24 – 18 1.5 0.3 +4.5
Juan Nicasio 29 arb 52 1.4 3.0 +1.4
Andrew McCutchen 29 FA-elig 153 0.9 13.0 -10.1
Mark Melancon↔ WSN 31 FA-elig 45 0.9 5.8 -2.9
Chad Kuhl 23 – 15 0.8 0.2 +2.5
John Jaso 32 FA-elig 132 0.7 4.0 -1.7
A.J. Schugel 27 pre-arb 36 0.5 0.4 +1.4
Adam Frazier 24 – 66 0.3 0.3 +0.8
Wade LeBlanc↔ SEA 31 arb 8 0.3 0.1 +1.0
Francisco Liriano↔ TOR 32 FA-elig 23 0.3 9.5 -8.7
Jeff Locke 28 arb 31 0.2 3.0 -2.4
Tyler Glasnow 22 – 7 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Felipe Vázquez↔ WSN 24 pre-arb 28 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Jacob Stallings 26 – 5 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Steven Brault 24 – 8 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Antonio Bastardo↔ NYM 30 FA-elig 28 0.0 2.2 -2.0
Drew Hutchison↔ TOR 25 arb 6 0.0 1.5 -1.3
Ryan Vogelsong 38 FA-elig 24 0.0 2.0 -1.9
Zach Phillips 29 pre-arb 8 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Rob Scahill↔ MIL 29 – 15 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Phil Coke↔ NYY 33 FA-elig 3 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Jorge Rondon 28 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Chris Stewart 34 FA-elig 34 -0.0 1.4 -1.4
Curtis Partch 29 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Max Moroff 23 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Josh Bell 23 – 45 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Wilfredo Boscan 26 – 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Tony Watson 31 arb 70 -0.1 3.5 -3.7
Neftalí Feliz 28 FA-elig 62 -0.1 3.9 -4.1
Elias Díaz 25 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Kyle Lobstein 26 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Jason Rogers 28 pre-arb 23 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Pedro Florimón 29 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Kelvin Marte 28 – 2 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Arquimedes Caminero↔ SEA 29 arb 39 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Cole Figueroa 29 – 23 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Michael Morse 34 FA-elig 6 -0.2 8.5 -9.2
Trevor Williams 24 – 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Alen Hanson 23 – 27 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Cory Luebke 31 FA-elig 9 -0.2 1.0 -1.8
Jared Hughes 30 arb 67 -0.3 2.2 -3.3
Eric Fryer↔ STL 30 arb 36 -0.4 0.3 -1.7
Jonathon Niese↔ NYM 29 FA-elig 24 -0.4 7.2 -8.6
Erik Kratz↔ HOU 36 FA-elig 18 -0.5 0.5 -2.2

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.