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GM: Kevin Towers (since 1996)

2003 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-12.9
WAB — wins above budget
-3.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
64–98 (0.395)
record
-2M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.2
roster fWAR
$46.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mark Loretta 31 FA-elig 154 4.4 1.2 +6.5
Mark Kotsay 27 FA-elig 128 4.1 4.5 +2.7
Adam Eaton 25 arb 39 3.2 0.3 +5.2
Sean Burroughs 22 pre-arb 146 2.7 0.3 +4.5
Brian Lawrence 27 pre-arb 33 2.4 0.6 +3.6
Gary Matthews Jr.↔ BAL 28 arb 103 1.9 0.6 +2.8
Ramón Vázquez 26 pre-arb 116 1.6 0.3 +2.5
Ryan Klesko 32 FA-elig 121 1.4 5.5 -2.9
Xavier Nady 24 arb 110 1.4 0.8 +1.8
Brian Giles↔ PIT 32 FA-elig 29 1.2 1.9 +0.3
Rondell White↔ KCR 31 FA-elig 115 1.2 4.6 -2.5
Matt Herges↔ SFG 33 – 40 0.7 – –
Scott Linebrink↔ HOU 26 – 43 0.7 – –
Brian Buchanan 29 arb 115 0.6 0.3 +0.8
Jake Peavy 22 pre-arb 32 0.6 0.3 +0.7
Lou Merloni↔ BOS 32 arb 65 0.6 0.5 +0.6
Phil Nevin 32 FA-elig 59 0.5 5.0 -4.1
Keith Lockhart 38 FA-elig 62 0.4 0.5 +0.2
Rod Beck 34 – 36 0.4 – –
Miguel Ojeda 28 – 61 0.4 – –
Mike Matthews 29 arb 77 0.3 0.3 +0.1
Kevin Jarvis 33 FA-elig 17 0.2 3.0 -2.6
Dave Hansen 34 FA-elig 110 0.2 0.6 -0.1
Jason Bay↔ PIT 24 – 3 0.2 – –
Charles Nagy 36 – 5 0.2 – –
Roger Deago 26 – 2 0.1 – –
Oliver Pérez↔ PIT 21 pre-arb 19 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Trevor Hoffman 35 FA-elig 9 0.1 9.6 -9.5
Donaldo Mendez 25 – 26 0.0 – –
Brian Tollberg 30 – 3 0.0 – –
Carlton Loewer 29 – 5 0.0 – –
Todd Sears↔ MIN 27 – 9 0.0 – –
Dennis Tankersley 24 – 1 0.0 – –
Joe Roa↔ COL 31 FA-elig 18 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Kevin Walker 26 arb 11 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Jermaine Clark↔ TEX 26 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Humberto Quintero 23 – 12 -0.1 – –
Gary Bennett 31 FA-elig 96 -0.1 0.7 -0.9
Jesse Orosco↔ MIN 46 FA-elig 42 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Khalil Greene 23 – 20 -0.2 – –
Luther Hackman 28 arb 65 -0.2 0.3 -0.7
Jay Witasick 30 FA-elig 46 -0.2 0.8 -1.2
Shane Victorino 22 pre-arb 36 -0.2 0.3 -0.7
Randy Keisler 27 – 3 -0.4 – –
Wiki Gonzalez 29 arb 24 -0.4 0.7 -1.5
Clay Condrey 27 pre-arb 9 -0.4 0.3 -1.1
Mike Rivera 26 – 19 -0.5 – –
Ben Howard 24 – 6 -0.5 – –
Jaret Wright↔ ATL 27 FA-elig 39 -0.6 0.6 -1.5
Brandon Villafuerte 27 arb 31 -0.6 0.3 -1.4
Mike Bynum 25 pre-arb 13 -0.7 0.3 -1.5

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 34 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.