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GM: Jack Zduriencik (since 2009)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.8
WAB — wins above budget
-0.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record
-21M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.8
roster fWAR
$100.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Félix Hernández 23 arb 34 6.9 3.8 +12.5
Franklin Gutierrez 26 arb 153 6.1 0.5 +14.0
Ichiro Suzuki 35 FA-elig 146 5.5 18.0 -5.0
Russell Branyan 33 FA-elig 116 2.7 1.4 +5.0
Jarrod Washburn↔ DET 34 FA-elig 20 2.7 7.0 -0.6
Adrian Beltré 30 FA-elig 111 2.2 13.4 -8.2
David Aardsma 27 arb 73 2.0 0.4 +4.4
Erik Bedard 30 FA-elig 15 2.0 7.8 -3.1
Jose Lopez 25 arb 153 1.8 2.2 +2.0
Ryan Rowland-Smith 26 pre-arb 15 1.7 0.4 +3.7
Mark Lowe 26 arb 75 1.2 0.4 +2.5
Sean White 28 – 52 0.7 – –
Ryan Langerhans 29 – 38 0.7 – –
Endy Chavez 31 FA-elig 54 0.6 2.0 -0.5
Jack Hannahan↔ OAK 29 arb 51 0.6 0.2 +1.2
Mike Carp 23 – 21 0.6 – –
Jason Vargas 26 arb 23 0.5 0.4 +0.8
Josh Wilson↔ ARI 28 – 45 0.4 – –
Ian Snell↔ PIT 27 arb 12 0.3 1.4 -0.6
Doug Fister 25 – 11 0.3 – –
Brandon Morrow 24 pre-arb 26 0.3 0.4 +0.2
Wladimir Balentien↔ CIN 24 pre-arb 56 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Mike Sweeney 35 FA-elig 74 0.2 0.5 -0.0
Jack Wilson↔ PIT 31 FA-elig 31 0.2 2.2 -1.7
Shawn Kelley 25 pre-arb 41 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Matt Tuiasosopo 23 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Miguel Batista 38 FA-elig 56 0.1 9.5 -9.3
Ken Griffey Jr. 39 FA-elig 117 0.1 2.0 -1.8
Chris Jakubauskas 30 pre-arb 35 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Guillermo Quiroz 27 – 4 0.0 – –
Kenji Johjima 33 arb 71 -0.1 7.7 -7.8
Carlos Silva 30 FA-elig 8 -0.1 12.2 -12.4
Randy Messenger 27 – 12 -0.1 – –
Adam Moore 25 – 6 -0.1 – –
Chris Shelton 29 – 9 -0.1 – –
Michael Saunders 22 – 46 -0.1 – –
Chris Woodward↔ BOS 33 – 20 -0.2 – –
Denny Stark 34 – 9 -0.2 – –
Luke French↔ DET 23 – 8 -0.2 – –
Bill Hall↔ MIL 29 FA-elig 34 -0.4 2.1 -3.0
Roy Corcoran 29 FA-elig 16 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
Jamie Burke↔ WSN 37 – 13 -0.4 – –
Garrett Olson 25 pre-arb 31 -0.7 0.4 -2.1
Yuniesky Betancourt↔ KCR 27 arb 63 -0.8 1.1 -3.0
Ronny Cedeno↔ PIT 26 arb 59 -0.9 0.5 -2.5
Rob Johnson 26 pre-arb 80 -1.4 0.4 -3.8

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (70%). 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.