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GM: Bob Quinn (since 1993)

1996 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-15.2
WAB — wins above budget
-11.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
68–94 (0.420)
record
-18M
surplus $M (value/$)
23.7
roster fWAR
$36.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Barry Bonds 31 FA-elig 158 9.2 8.4 -0.7
Matt Williams 30 FA-elig 105 2.6 6.6 -4.4
Glenallen Hill 31 FA-elig 98 1.6 1.7 -0.3
Marvin Benard 25 pre-arb 135 1.5 0.1 +1.2
Bill Mueller 25 – 55 1.5 – –
Allen Watson 25 arb 32 1.5 0.2 +1.0
Mark Gardner 34 FA-elig 33 1.5 0.2 +1.0
Rick Wilkins↔ HOU 29 arb 52 1.4 0.6 +0.6
Shawn Estes 23 pre-arb 15 1.3 0.1 +1.0
Shawon Dunston 33 FA-elig 82 1.2 1.5 -0.4
William Van Landingham 25 pre-arb 32 1.2 0.2 +0.8
Tom Lampkin 32 FA-elig 66 1.1 0.2 +0.7
Osvaldo Fernandez 29 pre-arb 33 1.0 0.6 +0.2
Stan Javier 32 FA-elig 71 1.0 1.0 -0.2
Kirk Rueter↔ WSN 25 arb 4 0.8 0.0 +0.7
Kirt Manwaring↔ HOU 30 FA-elig 49 0.6 1.1 -0.6
Robby Thompson 34 FA-elig 63 0.6 5.0 -4.5
Jacob Cruz 23 – 33 0.5 – –
Rod Beck 27 arb 63 0.5 3.0 -2.6
Mark Leiter↔ WSN 33 FA-elig 23 0.4 1.2 -0.9
Trenidad Hubbard↔ COL 32 pre-arb 10 0.3 0.0 +0.3
Rich Aurilia 24 pre-arb 105 0.3 0.1 +0.2
Marcus Jensen 23 – 9 0.2 – –
Steve Bourgeois 23 pre-arb 15 0.2 0.1 +0.0
Steve Soderstrom 24 – 3 0.1 – –
Wilson Delgado 23 – 6 0.0 – –
Jim Poole↔ CLE 30 FA-elig 35 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Dax Jones 25 pre-arb 34 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Dan Peltier 28 – 31 -0.0 – –
J.R. Phillips↔ PHI 26 arb 15 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Shawn Barton 33 – 7 -0.1 – –
Rich DeLucia 31 FA-elig 56 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Dan Carlson 26 – 5 -0.1 – –
Keith Williams 24 – 9 -0.1 – –
Dave McCarty 26 arb 91 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Doug Mirabelli 25 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Mark Carreon↔ CLE 32 FA-elig 81 -0.2 0.7 -0.9
Jose Bautista 31 FA-elig 37 -0.3 0.8 -1.1
Jeff Juden↔ WSN 25 arb 36 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Mel Hall 35 FA-elig 25 -0.4 0.1 -0.4
Steve Decker↔ COL 30 – 57 -0.4 – –
Mark Dewey 31 FA-elig 78 -0.4 0.2 -0.6
Desi Wilson 27 pre-arb 41 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Chris Hook 27 pre-arb 10 -0.5 0.1 -0.5
Tim Scott↔ WSN 29 arb 20 -0.6 0.2 -0.7
Steve Scarsone 30 arb 105 -0.7 0.4 -0.9
Jay Canizaro 22 pre-arb 43 -0.7 0.1 -0.7
Doug Creek 27 pre-arb 63 -1.1 0.1 -1.0
Kim Batiste 28 arb 54 -1.5 0.1 -1.4

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 39 of them (80%). 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 SFG
Jeff Kent199630.9
Jason Schmidt200123.6
Rich Aurilia199419.8
Shawn Estes199514.8
Robb Nen199712.9
Liván Hernández199911.6
Mike Yastrzemski201911.3
Randy Winn200510.9
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Bryan Reynolds201820.0
Liván Hernández200317.2
Joe Nathan200314.1
Zack Wheeler201113.0
Francisco Liriano200312.5
John Burkett199411.0
Jack Clark198510.1
Rob Deer19857.9
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.