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GM: Woody Woodward (since 1989)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.2
WAB — wins above budget
+10.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
79–66 (0.545)
record · made playoffs
+4M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.4
roster fWAR
$34.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Randy Johnson 31 FA-elig 30 9.5 4.7 +4.4
Edgar Martinez 32 FA-elig 145 7.0 3.6 +3.2
Tino Martinez 27 arb 141 4.5 1.0 +3.3
Ken Griffey Jr. 25 FA-elig 72 3.3 7.6 -4.4
Jay Buhner 30 FA-elig 126 2.6 4.1 -1.6
Dan Wilson 26 arb 119 2.6 0.2 +2.3
Jeff Nelson 28 arb 62 2.2 0.3 +1.9
Chris Bosio 32 FA-elig 31 2.0 4.2 -2.4
Norm Charlton↔ PHI 32 FA-elig 30 1.9 0.3 +1.6
Mike Blowers 30 FA-elig 134 1.8 0.7 +1.1
Tim Belcher 33 FA-elig 28 1.7 0.6 +1.1
Luis Sojo 30 arb 102 1.5 0.4 +1.0
Bill Risley 28 arb 45 1.3 0.1 +1.1
Darren Bragg 25 pre-arb 52 1.0 0.1 +0.8
Bobby Ayala 25 arb 63 0.8 0.2 +0.5
Rich Amaral 33 arb 90 0.7 0.2 +0.4
Andy Benes↔ SDP 27 FA-elig 12 0.6 1.3 -0.7
Doug Strange 31 FA-elig 74 0.6 0.2 +0.3
Tim Davis 24 pre-arb 5 0.3 0.1 +0.1
Vince Coleman↔ KCR 33 FA-elig 40 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Bill Krueger↔ SDP 37 – 6 0.2 – –
Warren Newson↔ CHW 30 arb 33 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Steve Frey↔ PHI 31 FA-elig 13 0.2 0.4 -0.2
Bob Wolcott 21 – 7 0.2 – –
Marc Newfield↔ SDP 22 pre-arb 24 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Salomon Torres↔ SFG 23 pre-arb 16 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Kevin King 26 – 2 0.1 – –
Jim Mecir 25 – 2 0.0 – –
Gary Thurman 30 FA-elig 13 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Scott Davison 24 – 3 -0.0 – –
Lee Guetterman 36 – 23 -0.0 – –
Arquimedez Pozo 21 – 1 -0.0 – –
John Cummings↔ LAD 26 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Jim Converse↔ KCR 23 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Chad Kreuter 30 FA-elig 26 -0.1 0.6 -0.6
Tim Harikkala 23 – 1 -0.2 – –
Joey Cora 30 FA-elig 120 -0.2 0.4 -0.6
Greg Pirkl 24 pre-arb 10 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Chris Widger 24 pre-arb 23 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Alex Rodriguez 19 pre-arb 48 -0.3 0.4 -0.7
Bob Wells 28 pre-arb 30 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Alex Diaz 26 arb 103 -0.6 0.2 -0.8
Rafael Carmona 23 pre-arb 15 -0.7 0.1 -0.7
Ron Villone↔ SDP 25 pre-arb 19 -0.7 0.1 -0.7
Dave Fleming↔ KCR 25 arb 16 -1.1 0.5 -1.6
Felix Fermin 31 FA-elig 73 -1.9 0.9 -2.7

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (83%). 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 SEA
Jamie Moyer199628.0
Mike Cameron200019.8
J. P. Crawford201817.8
Freddy García199815.6
Franklin Gutiérrez200813.4
Mitch Haniger201611.1
Marco Gonzales201710.1
Luis Castillo20228.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Adam Jones200829.6
Jason Varitek199721.2
Shin-Soo Choo200619.2
Mike Hampton199319.2
Carlos Guillén200418.3
Derek Lowe199718.0
Freddy Peralta201517.3
Chris Taylor201616.9
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.