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GM: Kevin Towers (since 1996)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.8
WAB — wins above budget
-2.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
-3M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.7
roster fWAR
$41.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Reggie Sanders 31 FA-elig 133 4.1 3.7 +1.5
Phil Nevin 28 arb 128 3.5 0.3 +4.2
Andy Ashby 31 FA-elig 31 2.6 5.0 -1.7
Sterling Hitchcock 28 FA-elig 33 2.6 3.5 -0.2
Trevor Hoffman 31 FA-elig 64 2.3 4.8 -1.9
Tony Gwynn 39 FA-elig 111 2.1 4.4 -1.7
Matt Clement 24 pre-arb 31 1.9 0.2 +2.1
Quilvio Veras 28 arb 132 1.6 2.1 -0.1
Woody Williams 32 FA-elig 34 1.6 3.1 -1.1
Ruben Rivera 25 arb 147 1.4 0.3 +1.4
John Vander Wal 33 FA-elig 132 1.3 1.1 +0.5
Damian Jackson 25 arb 133 1.0 0.2 +1.0
Brian Boehringer 30 arb 33 0.9 0.3 +0.9
Wally Joyner 37 FA-elig 110 0.9 2.8 -1.7
Dave Magadan 36 FA-elig 116 0.9 0.6 +0.5
Eric Owens 28 arb 149 0.8 0.3 +0.7
Mike Darr 23 – 25 0.6 – –
Gary Matthews Jr. 24 – 23 0.4 – –
Wiki Gonzalez 25 pre-arb 30 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Ben Davis 22 pre-arb 76 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Greg Myers↔ ATL 33 FA-elig 50 0.2 0.5 -0.2
Dan Miceli 28 FA-elig 66 0.2 1.1 -0.8
Matt Whisenant↔ KCR 28 pre-arb 19 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Buddy Carlyle 21 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Carlos Reyes 30 arb 65 0.2 0.4 -0.2
Ed Giovanola 30 – 56 0.1 – –
Matt Whiteside 31 FA-elig 10 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Donne Wall 31 arb 55 0.0 0.3 -0.2
Jim Leyritz↔ NYY 35 FA-elig 50 -0.0 1.2 -1.2
Chris Gomez 28 FA-elig 76 -0.0 2.2 -2.2
Ed Vosberg↔ ARI 37 FA-elig 15 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Domingo Guzman 24 – 7 -0.0 – –
Heath Murray 26 pre-arb 22 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
George Arias 27 arb 55 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Roberto Rivera 30 – 12 -0.1 – –
Carlos Almánzar 25 – 28 -0.1 – –
Carlos Garcia 31 FA-elig 6 -0.2 0.3 -0.5
Stan Spencer 29 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Carlos Baerga↔ CLE 30 FA-elig 33 -0.5 0.3 -0.9
David Newhan 25 – 32 -0.6 – –
Will Cunnane 25 – 24 -0.6 – –

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 33 of them (80%). 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.