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GM: Kevin Towers (since 1996)

2005 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.9
WAB — wins above budget
+4.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
82–80 (0.506)
record · made playoffs
-2M
surplus $M (value/$)
37.7
roster fWAR
$67.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brian Giles 34 FA-elig 158 5.9 8.3 +2.7
Jake Peavy 24 arb 30 5.8 0.8 +10.1
Dave Roberts 33 FA-elig 115 2.3 1.4 +3.0
Ramon Hernandez 29 FA-elig 99 2.3 4.3 -0.1
Adam Eaton 27 arb 26 1.9 3.4 +0.1
Scott Linebrink 28 arb 73 1.8 0.9 +2.5
Mark Sweeney 35 FA-elig 135 1.8 0.6 +2.7
Trevor Hoffman 37 FA-elig 60 1.7 5.0 -1.8
Brian Lawrence 29 arb 33 1.7 2.4 +0.7
Khalil Greene 25 pre-arb 121 1.6 0.4 +2.7
Ryan Klesko 34 FA-elig 137 1.5 9.0 -6.2
Rudy Seanez 36 FA-elig 57 1.5 0.6 +2.2
Damian Jackson 31 – 118 1.3 – –
Geoff Blum↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 78 1.0 0.4 +1.4
Woody Williams 38 FA-elig 30 1.0 3.0 -1.2
Miguel Olivo↔ SEA 26 arb 37 0.9 0.2 +1.4
Xavier Nady 26 arb 124 0.8 0.5 +0.9
Clay Hensley 25 – 24 0.7 – –
Mark Loretta 33 FA-elig 105 0.7 2.8 -1.4
Pedro Astacio↔ TEX 36 FA-elig 12 0.6 0.4 +0.8
Akinori Otsuka 33 pre-arb 66 0.6 0.8 +0.4
Tim Stauffer 23 – 15 0.6 – –
Ben Johnson 24 – 31 0.4 – –
Paul Quantrill↔ MIA 36 FA-elig 22 0.4 1.3 -0.6
Chan Ho Park↔ TEX 32 FA-elig 10 0.4 5.0 -4.3
Joe Randa↔ CIN 35 FA-elig 58 0.4 0.8 -0.2
Sean Burroughs 24 arb 93 0.4 1.7 -1.0
Robert Fick 31 – 93 0.3 – –
Eric Young Sr. 38 FA-elig 56 0.3 0.8 -0.3
David Ross↔ PIT 28 arb 11 0.2 0.1 +0.3
Wilson Valdez↔ SEA 27 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Paul McAnulty 24 – 22 0.0 – –
Scott Cassidy↔ BOS 29 – 10 -0.0 – –
Brian Falkenborg 27 – 10 -0.1 – –
Craig Breslow 24 – 14 -0.1 – –
Chris Oxspring 28 – 5 -0.1 – –
Jesse Garcia 31 – 16 -0.1 – –
Randy Williams↔ COL 29 – 2 -0.1 – –
Dennys Reyes 28 FA-elig 36 -0.2 0.6 -0.8
Adam Hyzdu↔ BOS 33 arb 17 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Manny Alexander 34 – 10 -0.2 – –
Darrell May↔ NYY 33 FA-elig 22 -0.2 3.0 -3.3
Chris Hammond 39 FA-elig 55 -0.3 0.8 -1.3
Phil Nevin↔ TEX 34 FA-elig 73 -0.4 6.9 -7.6
Tim Redding↔ NYY 27 arb 9 -0.6 0.7 -1.7
Miguel Ojeda↔ SEA 30 pre-arb 43 -0.6 0.2 -1.5

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 33 of them (72%). 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.