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GM: Randy Smith (since 1994)

1994 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.2
WAB — wins above budget
-0.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
47–70 (0.402)
record
+6M
surplus $M (value/$)
17.9
roster fWAR
$15.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Andy Benes 26 arb 25 4.1 3.0 +1.8
Tony Gwynn 34 FA-elig 110 4.0 3.6 +1.0
Andy Ashby 26 arb 24 3.1 0.2 +3.4
Scott Sanders 25 pre-arb 23 2.1 0.1 +2.3
Bip Roberts 30 FA-elig 105 1.6 1.6 +0.2
Trevor Hoffman 26 pre-arb 47 1.6 0.2 +1.6
Joey Hamilton 23 pre-arb 16 1.5 0.1 +1.6
Bill Krueger↔ DET 36 FA-elig 8 1.1 0.4 +0.8
Eddie Williams 29 FA-elig 49 1.0 0.1 +1.0
Craig Shipley 31 FA-elig 81 0.7 0.3 +0.5
Jeff Tabaka↔ PIT 30 pre-arb 34 0.7 0.1 +0.7
Tim Worrell 26 pre-arb 3 0.7 0.1 +0.6
Wally Whitehurst 30 arb 13 0.6 0.7 +0.0
Tim Mauser 27 arb 35 0.5 0.1 +0.4
Derek Bell 25 arb 108 0.4 0.4 +0.1
A.J. Sager 29 pre-arb 22 0.3 0.1 +0.2
Brad Ausmus 25 pre-arb 101 0.3 0.1 +0.2
Bryce Florie 24 pre-arb 9 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Brian Johnson 26 pre-arb 36 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Doug Brocail 27 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Scott Livingstone↔ DET 28 arb 57 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Melvin Nieves 22 pre-arb 10 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Ray McDavid 22 – 9 0.0 – –
Pedro Martinez 25 pre-arb 48 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Archi Cianfrocco 27 pre-arb 59 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Dave Staton 26 pre-arb 29 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Ray Holbert 23 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Kerry Taylor 23 – 1 -0.1 – –
Donnie Elliott 25 pre-arb 30 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Jose Martinez 23 – 4 -0.1 – –
Gene Harris↔ DET 29 arb 13 -0.2 0.4 -0.6
Tim Hyers 22 pre-arb 52 -0.2 0.1 -0.4
Phil Plantier 25 arb 96 -0.4 0.5 -0.9
Mike Campbell 30 FA-elig 3 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Mark Davis 33 FA-elig 20 -0.4 0.4 -0.9
Keith Lockhart 29 pre-arb 27 -0.5 0.1 -0.7
Luis Lopez 23 pre-arb 77 -0.7 0.1 -0.9
Phil Clark 26 pre-arb 61 -0.7 0.2 -1.0
Billy Bean 30 FA-elig 84 -1.0 0.1 -1.3
Ricky Gutierrez 24 pre-arb 90 -2.0 0.2 -2.5

40 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (92%). 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 SDP
Fernando Tatís201627.7
Trevor Hoffman199324.3
Andy Ashby199317.7
Ken Caminiti199417.4
Phil Nevin199917.3
Brian Giles200317.1
Ryan Klesko199916.6
Jake Cronenworth201914.8
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Ozzie Smith198148.0
Corey Kluber201034.6
Anthony Rizzo201231.1
Yasmani Grandal201420.6
Roberto Alomar199020.4
Max Fried201420.1
Trea Turner201519.4
John Kruk198918.4
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.