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GM: Al Rosen

Overview

REBUILD ↘ cooling
cheap & losing · year 1 in this regime · payroll 0.99× league · TAB -9.1
-9.1TAB — talent above budget21st/26
-9.8WAB — realized wins (TAB + luck)20th/26
6.0depth — 2+ WAR regulars14th/26
-4.4dead WAR — sub-replacement drag10th/26
41%dead money %17th/26
0.444win %20th/26
24.9roster fWAR21st/26
-9surplus $M (value vs cost)20th/26
$30Mpayroll $M14th/26

Roster

CFDarren Lewis 94GMike Felder 58GWillie McGee 31G
LFChris James 60GMike Felder 53GMark Leonard 33G
RFWillie McGee 90GCory Snyder 48GSteve Hosey 18G
SSRoyce Clayton 94GJose Uribe 62GMike Benjamin 33G
2BRobby Thompson 120GGreg Litton 31GJohn Patterson 22G
3BMatt Williams 144GCory Snyder 14GGreg Litton 10G
1BWill Clark 141GCory Snyder 27GGreg Litton 8G
STARTERSBill Swift 2.8WARJohn Burkett 2.3WARDave Burba 0.4WARKevin Rogers 0.3WARTrevor Wilson -0.1WAR
CKirt Manwaring 108GCraig Colbert 35GJim McNamara 30G
BULLPEN★ Rod Beck 17svMike Jackson 0hBryan Hickerson 0hJeff Brantley 0hDave Righetti 0hJim Pena 0hSteve Reed 0hPat Rapp 0h
CKirt Manwaring 108 · Craig Colbert 35 · Jim McNamara 30
1BWill Clark 141 · Cory Snyder 27 · Greg Litton 8
2BRobby Thompson 120 · Greg Litton 31 · John Patterson 22
3BMatt Williams 144 · Cory Snyder 14 · Greg Litton 10
SSRoyce Clayton 94 · Jose Uribe 62 · Mike Benjamin 33
LFChris James 60 · Mike Felder 53 · Mark Leonard 33
CFDarren Lewis 94 · Mike Felder 58 · Willie McGee 31
RFWillie McGee 90 · Cory Snyder 48 · Steve Hosey 18
SPBill Swift 2.8 · John Burkett 2.3 · Dave Burba 0.4 · Kevin Rogers 0.3 · Trevor Wilson -0.1
BP★ Rod Beck 17 · Mike Jackson 0 · Bryan Hickerson 0 · Jeff Brantley 0 · Dave Righetti 0 · Jim Pena 0 · Steve Reed 0 · Pat Rapp 0

Each position lists its starter then backups by games (so platoons & bench show). Starters (mound) & bullpen (left, foul territory) are ranked by WAR; ★ marks the closer (most save chances). MLB Stats API.

1992 roster — value & surplus

PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Will Clark 28 FA-elig 1443.7 4.3 -1.4
Robby Thompson 30 FA-elig 1283.0 1.6 +0.8
Kirt Manwaring 26 arb 1093.0 0.4 +2.0
Bill Swift 30 FA-elig 342.8 2.3 -0.1
Rod Beck 23 pre-arb 652.7 0.1 +2.0
John Burkett 27 arb 322.3 0.4 +1.4
Matt Williams 26 arb 1461.7 2.0 -0.6
Willie McGee 33 FA-elig 1381.7 3.6 -2.2
Mike Felder 30 FA-elig 1451.4 0.7 +0.4
Cory Snyder 29 FA-elig 1241.3 0.6 +0.5
Jose Uribe 33 FA-elig 660.9 1.5 -0.8
Bryan Hickerson 28 – 610.9 – –
Royce Clayton 22 pre-arb 980.6 0.1 +0.4
Mark Leonard 27 pre-arb 550.5 0.1 +0.2
Kevin Bass↔ NYM 33 FA-elig 890.4 1.3 -1.0
Dave Burba 25 pre-arb 230.4 0.1 +0.2
Greg Litton 27 – 680.4 – –
Mike Jackson 27 FA-elig 670.4 1.7 -1.4
Jeff Brantley 28 arb 560.3 1.1 -0.9
Dave Righetti 33 FA-elig 540.3 3.5 -3.3
Kevin Rogers 23 – 60.3 – –
Mike Benjamin 26 arb 400.2 0.1 -0.0
Craig Colbert 27 – 490.0 – –
Mark Bailey 30 – 13-0.0 – –
Jim Pena 27 – 25-0.0 – –
Kelly Downs↔ OAK 31 FA-elig 19-0.0 0.5 -0.5
Pat Rapp 24 – 3-0.0 – –
Steve Reed 27 – 18-0.0 – –
Jim McNamara 27 – 30-0.0 – –
Steve Decker 26 – 15-0.1 – –
Trevor Wilson 26 – 27-0.1 – –
Chris James 29 FA-elig 111-0.2 0.7 -0.8
Ted Wood 25 – 24-0.2 – –
Gil Heredia↔ WSN 26 pre-arb 13-0.3 0.1 -0.3
Larry Carter 27 – 6-0.3 – –
Bud Black 35 FA-elig 28-0.4 2.8 -3.1
Steve Hosey 23 – 21-0.5 – –
Darren Lewis 24 pre-arb 100-0.6 0.1 -0.6
Francisco Oliveras 29 – 16-0.7 – –
John Patterson 25 – 32-0.9 – –

Key additions (new vs 1991)

PlayerfWAR
Bill Swift2.8
Cory Snyder1.3
Dave Burba0.4
Mike Jackson0.4
Kevin Rogers0.3
Craig Colbert0.0

Key subtractions (gone from 1991)

Player1991 fWAR
Kevin Mitchell2.1
Terry Kennedy1.0
Don Robinson0.5
Tom Herr0.4
Michael LaCoss0.1
Jose Segura0.1

Current & Historical Payroll

1992 payroll
$29.6M

What the front office was committed to as of 1992, 1992–1998. Pre-2015 has no contract-terms data — forward italic $ are realized actuals (hindsight, not commitments known then). Control labels (ARB/FA) are point-in-time.

current $ guaranteed $ actual $ (hindsight) arbitration (proj) pre-arb (proj) free agent

Guaranteed / signed (14)

PlayerAgeSvc1992199319941995199619971998
Will Clark286.000$4.3M$4.8MFREE AGENT
Willie McGee3310.000$3.6M$2.3M$3.6MFREE AGENT
Dave Righetti3313.000$3.5M$2.2MFREE AGENT
Bud Black3511.000$2.8M$2.2M$3.2MFREE AGENT
Bill Swift307.000$2.3M$3.3M$2.3MFREE AGENT
Mike Jackson276.000$1.7M$2.3M$3.0MFREE AGENT
Robby Thompson306.000$1.6M$1.9M$3.3M$3.3M$5.0MFREE AGENT
Jose Uribe338.000$1.5MFREE AGENT
Kevin Bass3310.000$1.3MFREE AGENT
Mike Felder307.000$650kFREE AGENT
Chris James296.000$650kFREE AGENT
Cory Snyder296.000$565kFREE AGENT
Kelly Downs316.000$475kFREE AGENT
Mark Bailey308.000—FREE AGENT

Arbitration-eligible (8)

PlayerAgeSvc1992199319941995199619971998
Matt Williams265.000$2.0MFREE AGENT
Jeff Brantley284.000$1.1MARB 3FREE AGENT
John Burkett275.000$375kFREE AGENT
Kirt Manwaring265.000$360kFREE AGENT
Mike Benjamin263.000$150kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Greg Litton273.000—ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Francisco Oliveras293.000—ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Trevor Wilson264.000—ARB 3FREE AGENT

Pre-arbitration (18)

PlayerAgeSvc1992199319941995199619971998
Darren Lewis242.000$145kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Mark Leonard272.000$140kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Dave Burba252.000$130kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Rod Beck231.000$120kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Royce Clayton221.000$109kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Gil Heredia261.000$75kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Larry Carter27–—
Craig Colbert27–—
Steve Decker262.000—ARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Bryan Hickerson281.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Steve Hosey23–—
Jim McNamara27–—
John Patterson250.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jim Pena27–—
Pat Rapp240.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Steve Reed270.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Kevin Rogers230.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Ted Wood251.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT

Graphs

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR. Bars = Giants 1992; the black line = the league-average player at each slot that season. Staying above the line deep into the roster is the depth edge; dropping below it = holes & dead weight.

What each regime is worth — every settled team-season since 1985

RegimeSeasonsWin %Playoff %Pennant %WS %
WINDOW 28152.131.05.01.1
CONTEND 30056.964.719.710.3
FORCED-SPEND 25648.09.81.61.6
REBUILD 32143.31.20.30.3
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.