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GM: Woody Woodward (since 1989)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-3.6
WAB — wins above budget
-7.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
79–83 (0.488)
record
-14M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.4
roster fWAR
$51.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Edgar Martinez 36 FA-elig 142 5.3 3.5 +3.2
Ken Griffey Jr. 29 FA-elig 160 4.9 8.8 -2.6
Alex Rodriguez 23 arb 129 4.7 3.1 +2.8
Jamie Moyer 36 FA-elig 32 4.7 2.3 +3.7
Freddy Garcia 22 pre-arb 34 3.9 0.2 +4.7
John Halama 27 pre-arb 38 2.5 0.2 +2.9
Tom Lampkin 35 FA-elig 76 1.7 0.6 +1.5
David Bell 26 arb 157 1.6 0.7 +1.3
Paul Abbott 31 FA-elig 25 1.1 0.2 +1.2
Jay Buhner 34 FA-elig 87 0.9 4.8 -3.6
Butch Huskey↔ BOS 27 FA-elig 74 0.9 0.9 +0.2
David Segui↔ TOR 32 FA-elig 90 0.8 1.9 -0.8
Jose Paniagua 25 arb 59 0.7 0.2 +0.7
Matt Mieske↔ HOU 31 FA-elig 24 0.7 0.2 +0.7
Butch Henry 30 FA-elig 7 0.5 1.5 -0.8
Dan Wilson 30 FA-elig 123 0.4 3.6 -3.1
Charles Gipson 26 pre-arb 55 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Gil Meche 20 pre-arb 16 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Raul Ibanez 27 arb 87 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Rafael Bournigal 33 FA-elig 55 0.2 0.4 -0.2
Tom Davey↔ TOR 25 pre-arb 16 0.2 0.1 +0.2
Frankie Rodriguez 26 arb 30 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Steve Sinclair↔ TOR 27 – 18 0.1 – –
Jordan Zimmerman 24 – 12 0.1 – –
Denny Stark 24 – 5 0.0 – –
Mark Leiter 36 FA-elig 2 0.0 3.0 -2.9
Aaron Scheffer 23 – 4 0.0 – –
Domingo Cedeno↔ PHI 30 – 21 0.0 – –
Robert Ramsay 25 pre-arb 6 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Carlos Guillén 23 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Sean Spencer 24 – 2 -0.0 – –
Mike Blowers 34 – 19 -0.0 – –
Eric Weaver 25 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Todd Williams 28 arb 13 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Ryan Franklin 26 – 6 -0.1 – –
Damaso Marte 24 – 5 -0.2 – –
Shane Monahan 24 – 16 -0.3 – –
Melvin Bunch 27 – 5 -0.3 – –
Mac Suzuki↔ KCR 24 arb 16 -0.3 0.1 -0.5
John Mabry 28 arb 87 -0.4 1.4 -1.9
Giomar Guevara 26 – 10 -0.4 – –
Rafael Carmona 26 – 9 -0.4 – –
Ryan Jackson 27 pre-arb 32 -0.5 0.2 -0.8
Allen Watson↔ NYM 28 FA-elig 3 -0.5 0.1 -0.7
Ken Cloude 24 pre-arb 31 -0.6 0.3 -1.0
Russ Davis 29 arb 124 -0.6 2.4 -3.1
Ozzie Timmons 28 – 26 -0.7 – –
Brett Hinchliffe 24 pre-arb 11 -0.9 0.2 -1.3
Jeff Fassero↔ TEX 36 FA-elig 30 -0.9 4.1 -5.2
Jose Mesa 33 FA-elig 68 -0.9 2.9 -4.0
Brian L. Hunter↔ DET 28 arb 121 -1.8 1.5 -3.8

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (73%). 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.