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GM: Brian Sabean (since 1997)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.3
WAB — wins above budget
-1.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–76 (0.531)
record
-7M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.2
roster fWAR
$47.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jeff Kent 31 FA-elig 138 3.6 5.8 -1.2
Barry Bonds 34 FA-elig 102 3.3 9.4 -5.2
Ellis Burks 34 FA-elig 120 2.9 4.5 -0.9
Shawn Estes 26 arb 42 2.5 0.8 +2.3
J.T. Snow 31 FA-elig 161 2.2 3.0 -0.2
Brent Mayne 31 FA-elig 117 2.2 0.8 +2.0
Russ Ortiz 25 pre-arb 33 2.1 0.2 +2.4
Rich Aurilia 27 arb 152 2.1 0.9 +1.7
Bill Mueller 28 arb 116 2.0 0.5 +2.0
Armando Rios 27 pre-arb 72 1.6 0.2 +1.8
Kirk Rueter 28 FA-elig 33 1.5 2.8 -1.0
Livan Hernandez↔ MIA 24 arb 11 1.4 0.7 +1.2
Robb Nen 29 FA-elig 72 1.3 5.2 -3.5
Marvin Benard 28 arb 149 1.1 0.8 +0.6
F.P. Santangelo 31 arb 113 1.1 0.6 +0.9
Chris Brock 29 pre-arb 19 0.8 0.2 +0.8
Ramon Martinez 26 pre-arb 61 0.8 0.2 +0.8
John Johnstone 30 FA-elig 62 0.8 0.7 +0.3
Felix Rodriguez 26 arb 47 0.7 0.2 +0.7
Doug Mirabelli 28 arb 33 0.6 0.2 +0.5
Alan Embree 29 FA-elig 68 0.5 0.9 -0.3
Jerry Spradlin↔ CLE 32 FA-elig 59 0.3 0.6 -0.2
Jay Canizaro 25 – 12 0.3 – –
Scott Servais 32 FA-elig 69 0.2 0.5 -0.3
Calvin Murray 27 pre-arb 15 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Rich Rodriguez 36 FA-elig 62 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Bronswell Patrick 28 – 6 -0.0 – –
Joe Nathan 24 pre-arb 19 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Miguel Del Toro 27 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Mark Gardner 37 FA-elig 29 -0.2 2.0 -2.3
Edwards Guzman 22 – 14 -0.3 – –
Julian Tavarez 26 FA-elig 47 -0.3 1.1 -1.6
Wilson Delgado 26 arb 35 -0.4 0.2 -0.7
Charlie Hayes 34 FA-elig 95 -1.0 1.9 -3.2
Stan Javier↔ HOU 35 FA-elig 112 -1.3 1.5 -3.1

35 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (91%). 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.