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GM: Kevin Towers (since 1996)

2001 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.6
WAB — wins above budget
-1.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
79–83 (0.488)
record
+7M
surplus $M (value/$)
25.8
roster fWAR
$34.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Phil Nevin 30 FA-elig 149 5.6 1.6 +7.4
Ryan Klesko 30 FA-elig 146 4.0 5.8 +0.7
Mark Kotsay 25 arb 119 3.4 2.1 +3.3
Bubba Trammell 29 arb 142 2.3 0.3 +3.4
Ben Davis 24 arb 138 1.9 0.2 +2.9
Brian Lawrence 25 – 27 1.8 – –
Brian Tollberg 28 pre-arb 19 1.7 0.2 +2.5
Mike Darr 25 pre-arb 105 1.3 0.2 +1.9
Kevin Jarvis 31 FA-elig 34 1.2 0.6 +1.4
Adam Eaton 23 pre-arb 23 1.0 0.2 +1.4
Wiki Gonzalez 27 pre-arb 64 1.0 0.2 +1.4
Jay Witasick↔ NYY 28 arb 31 0.8 0.4 +1.0
D'Angelo Jimenez 23 – 86 0.8 – –
Bobby Jones 31 FA-elig 33 0.8 0.6 +0.7
Woody Williams↔ STL 34 FA-elig 26 0.7 3.6 -2.4
Jose Nunez↔ LAD 22 pre-arb 56 0.7 0.2 +0.9
Damian Jackson 27 arb 122 0.6 0.3 +0.7
Ray Lankford↔ STL 34 FA-elig 40 0.6 2.5 -1.5
Sterling Hitchcock↔ NYY 30 FA-elig 3 0.5 1.4 -0.5
Tom Davey 27 pre-arb 39 0.5 0.2 +0.6
Tony Gwynn 41 FA-elig 71 0.5 2.0 -1.2
Jeremy Fikac 26 – 23 0.4 – –
Rickey Henderson 42 FA-elig 123 0.4 0.3 +0.3
Kevin Walker 24 pre-arb 16 0.3 0.3 +0.3
David Lundquist 28 – 17 0.2 – –
Trevor Hoffman 33 FA-elig 62 0.2 6.8 -6.4
Wascar Serrano 24 – 20 0.1 – –
Jimmy Osting 24 – 3 0.0 – –
Rudy Seanez↔ ATL 32 – 26 -0.1 – –
Emil Brown↔ PIT 26 arb 13 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Kevin Witt 25 – 14 -0.1 – –
Dave Maurer 26 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Rick Wilkins 34 – 12 -0.1 – –
Santiago Perez 25 pre-arb 43 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Alex Arias 33 FA-elig 70 -0.2 0.6 -0.9
Carlton Loewer 27 arb 2 -0.2 0.2 -0.6
David Lee 28 – 41 -0.2 – –
Adam Riggs 28 – 12 -0.2 – –
Rodney Myers 32 arb 37 -0.3 0.3 -0.7
Dave Magadan 38 FA-elig 91 -0.3 0.6 -1.0
Junior Herndon 22 – 12 -0.4 – –
Mike Colangelo 24 – 50 -0.4 – –
Chuck McElroy↔ BAL 33 FA-elig 31 -0.5 1.0 -1.7
Brett Jodie↔ NYY 24 – 7 -0.5 – –
Jason Middlebrook 26 – 4 -0.5 – –
Cesar Crespo 22 – 55 -0.7 – –
Donaldo Mendez 23 pre-arb 46 -1.3 0.2 -2.3
Chris Gomez↔ TBR 30 FA-elig 40 -1.4 1.2 -3.5

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (67%). 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.