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GM: Fred Uhlman (since 2009)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+2.1
WAB — wins above budget
+0.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
75–87 (0.463)
record
+23M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.6
roster fWAR
$45.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Adrián González 27 arb 160 5.8 3.1 +10.5
Kevin Correia 28 FA-elig 37 3.0 0.8 +6.3
Tony Gwynn Jr. 26 arb 119 2.5 0.4 +5.4
Scott Hairston↔ OAK 29 arb 56 2.2 0.6 +4.5
Heath Bell 31 arb 68 2.1 1.3 +3.8
Kevin Kouzmanoff 27 arb 141 2.1 0.4 +4.5
Luke Gregerson 25 pre-arb 72 2.0 0.4 +4.4
Jake Peavy↔ CHW 28 FA-elig 13 1.9 8.9 -4.5
Will Venable 26 pre-arb 95 1.8 0.4 +3.9
Henry Blanco 37 FA-elig 67 1.6 0.8 +2.9
Chad Gaudin↔ NYY 26 FA-elig 20 1.5 1.3 +2.3
Mike Adams 30 arb 37 1.4 0.4 +3.0
Chase Headley 25 pre-arb 156 1.0 0.4 +1.9
Nick Hundley 25 pre-arb 78 0.9 0.4 +1.8
Kyle Blanks 22 – 54 0.9 – –
Everth Cabrera 22 pre-arb 103 0.9 0.4 +1.7
Joe Thatcher 27 pre-arb 52 0.9 0.4 +1.6
David Eckstein 34 FA-elig 136 0.7 0.8 +0.8
Edward Mujica 25 arb 67 0.5 0.4 +0.8
Jody Gerut↔ MIL 31 FA-elig 37 0.4 0.5 +0.5
Tim Stauffer 27 arb 14 0.4 0.4 +0.6
Cesár Ramos 25 – 5 0.3 – –
Chris Young 30 arb 14 0.3 4.6 -3.9
Luis Durango 23 – 9 0.3 – –
Cla Meredith↔ BAL 26 arb 35 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Oscar Salazar↔ BAL 31 FA-elig 55 0.2 0.3 +0.1
Adam Russell 26 pre-arb 15 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Wade LeBlanc 24 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Clayton Richard↔ CHW 25 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Mat Latos 21 – 10 0.1 – –
Shawn Hill 28 arb 3 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Ernesto Frieri 23 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Craig Stansberry 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Sean Gallagher↔ OAK 23 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Mike Ekstrom 25 pre-arb 12 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Walter Silva 32 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
Frankie De La Cruz 25 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Ryan Webb 23 – 28 -0.1 – –
Aaron Poreda↔ CHW 22 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Jose Lobatón 24 – 7 -0.1 – –
Greg Burke 26 – 48 -0.1 – –
Cliff Floyd 36 FA-elig 10 -0.2 0.8 -1.2
Drew Macias 26 – 51 -0.2 – –
Arturo Lopez 26 – 4 -0.2 – –
Edwin Moreno 28 pre-arb 19 -0.3 0.4 -1.0
Josh Banks 26 – 6 -0.3 – –
Chris Burke 29 – 32 -0.3 – –
Edgar Gonzalez 31 pre-arb 82 -0.4 0.4 -1.3
Cesar Carrillo 25 pre-arb 3 -0.6 0.4 -1.9
Duaner Sanchez 29 FA-elig 12 -0.6 1.7 -3.2
Luis Perdomo 25 pre-arb 35 -0.7 0.4 -2.0
Eliezer Alfonzo 30 – 37 -0.7 – –
Josh Wilson↔ ARI 28 – 16 -0.8 – –
Luis Antonio Rodriguez 29 arb 93 -0.8 0.7 -2.6
Josh Geer 26 – 19 -1.0 – –
Brian Giles 38 FA-elig 61 -1.8 9.0 -13.3

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 of them (75%). 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.