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GM: Pat Gillick (since 2000)

2000 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.5
WAB — wins above budget
+8.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
91–71 (0.562)
record · made playoffs
+2M
surplus $M (value/$)
44.2
roster fWAR
$61.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Alex Rodriguez 24 FA-elig 148 9.5 4.4 +9.1
Edgar Martinez 37 FA-elig 153 5.3 5.4 +2.2
Aaron Sele 30 FA-elig 34 4.3 7.5 -1.5
John Olerud 31 FA-elig 159 3.6 6.3 -1.2
Mike Cameron 27 arb 155 3.6 2.2 +2.8
John Halama 28 pre-arb 30 2.4 0.3 +3.1
Jamie Moyer 37 FA-elig 26 1.8 6.0 -3.5
Arthur Rhodes 30 FA-elig 72 1.6 2.8 -0.4
Jay Buhner 35 FA-elig 112 1.6 1.4 +0.9
Gil Meche 21 pre-arb 15 1.5 0.3 +1.9
Paul Abbott 32 FA-elig 35 1.5 0.3 +1.8
Freddy Garcia 23 pre-arb 21 1.2 0.3 +1.4
Mark McLemore 35 FA-elig 138 1.2 2.0 -0.3
Joe Oliver 34 FA-elig 69 1.0 0.5 +1.0
Rickey Henderson↔ NYM 41 FA-elig 92 1.0 1.5 -0.1
Jose Paniagua 26 arb 69 0.9 0.3 +1.0
Tom Lampkin 36 FA-elig 36 0.7 0.9 +0.0
Kazuhiro Sasaki 32 pre-arb 63 0.6 4.0 -3.1
Brett Tomko 27 arb 32 0.5 0.5 +0.1
David Bell 27 arb 133 0.4 1.4 -0.8
Brian Lesher 29 – 5 0.4 – –
Jose Mesa 34 FA-elig 66 0.4 4.0 -3.4
Carlos Guillén 24 pre-arb 90 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Dan Wilson 31 FA-elig 90 0.3 4.0 -3.5
Charles Gipson 27 pre-arb 59 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Stan Javier 36 FA-elig 105 0.1 1.5 -1.4
Al Martin↔ SDP 32 FA-elig 42 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Anthony Sanders 26 – 1 0.0 – –
Robert Machado 27 – 8 0.0 – –
Robert Ramsay 26 pre-arb 37 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Joel Pineiro 21 – 8 -0.1 – –
Carlos Hernandez 24 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Chris Widger↔ WSN 29 arb 10 -0.2 0.1 -0.4
Raul Ibanez 28 arb 92 -0.3 0.3 -0.7
John Mabry↔ SDP 29 FA-elig 48 -0.4 0.9 -1.4
Kevin Hodges 27 – 13 -0.4 – –
Frankie Rodriguez 27 arb 23 -0.4 0.6 -1.2

37 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (86%). 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.