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GM: Kevin Towers (since 1996)

1998 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+13.8
WAB — wins above budget
+1.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
98–64 (0.605)
record · won pennant
-8M
surplus $M (value/$)
38.3
roster fWAR
$49.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Kevin Brown 33 FA-elig 36 10.0 4.9 +5.9
Greg Vaughn 32 FA-elig 158 5.8 5.3 +1.0
Trevor Hoffman 30 arb 66 3.1 2.9 +0.4
Andy Ashby 30 FA-elig 33 3.0 4.1 -0.9
Quilvio Veras 27 arb 138 3.0 1.1 +2.1
Ken Caminiti 35 FA-elig 131 2.6 3.5 -0.7
Joey Hamilton 27 arb 35 2.4 3.2 -0.6
Wally Joyner 36 FA-elig 131 2.1 3.8 -1.5
Chris Gomez 27 arb 145 1.6 1.1 +0.6
Sterling Hitchcock 27 FA-elig 39 1.4 2.2 -0.7
Tony Gwynn 38 FA-elig 127 1.2 4.0 -2.7
Dan Miceli 27 arb 67 1.2 0.8 +0.5
Carlos Hernandez 31 FA-elig 129 0.7 0.7 +0.1
Greg Myers 32 FA-elig 69 0.7 0.8 -0.0
Jim Leyritz↔ BOS 34 FA-elig 62 0.6 1.1 -0.5
Ruben Rivera 24 arb 95 0.6 0.2 +0.4
Stan Spencer 28 pre-arb 6 0.5 0.2 +0.4
Ed Giovanola 29 arb 92 0.5 0.2 +0.3
Donne Wall 30 arb 46 0.4 0.2 +0.2
Pete Smith↔ BAL 32 FA-elig 11 0.3 0.3 +0.1
Matt Clement 23 – 4 0.3 – –
John Vander Wal↔ COL 32 FA-elig 20 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Andy Sheets 26 pre-arb 88 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Scott Sanders↔ DET 29 arb 23 0.1 1.5 -1.4
Carlos Reyes↔ BOS 29 arb 22 0.1 0.2 -0.1
George Arias 26 pre-arb 20 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Marc Kroon↔ CIN 25 arb 2 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Mark Langston 37 FA-elig 23 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Ben Davis 21 – 1 -0.0 – –
Will Cunnane 24 – 3 -0.1 – –
Jim Bruske↔ LAD 33 arb 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Mark Sweeney 28 arb 122 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Ben Van Ryn↔ CHC 26 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Don Wengert↔ CHC 28 arb 10 -0.2 0.1 -0.2
Mandy Romero↔ BOS 30 – 6 -0.2 – –
Randy Myers↔ TOR 35 FA-elig 21 -0.2 1.5 -1.7
Steve Finley 33 FA-elig 159 -0.2 3.4 -3.7
Eddie Williams 33 – 17 -0.3 – –
Roberto Ramirez 25 – 21 -0.4 – –
Brian Boehringer 29 arb 56 -0.6 0.2 -0.8
James Mouton 29 arb 55 -0.7 0.4 -1.2
Archi Cianfrocco 31 FA-elig 40 -0.9 0.5 -1.4

42 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (86%). 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.