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GM: Brian Sabean (since 1997)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.7
WAB — wins above budget
-3.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
88–74 (0.543)
record · World Series champions
-55M
surplus $M (value/$)
35.1
roster fWAR
$157.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Buster Posey 27 arb 147 7.5 12.5 +9.4
Madison Bumgarner 24 arb 34 4.9 3.8 +10.5
Hunter Pence 31 FA-elig 162 4.1 16.0 -4.2
Pablo Sandoval 27 FA-elig 157 3.3 8.2 +1.2
Brandon Crawford 27 arb 153 2.7 0.6 +7.4
Grégor Blanco 30 FA-elig 146 1.9 2.5 +3.1
Ángel Pagán 32 FA-elig 96 1.8 10.2 -4.9
Michael Morse 32 FA-elig 131 1.6 6.0 -1.3
Yusmeiro Petit 29 FA-elig 39 1.5 0.8 +3.6
Tim Hudson 38 FA-elig 31 1.3 11.0 -7.1
Joe Panik 23 – 73 1.3 0.3 +3.6
Jake Peavy↔ BOS 33 FA-elig 12 1.1 5.4 -2.2
Ryan Vogelsong 36 FA-elig 32 1.0 5.0 -2.2
Andrew Susac 24 – 35 0.8 0.2 +2.2
Brandon Belt 26 arb 61 0.8 2.9 -0.7
Brandon Hicks 28 pre-arb 71 0.4 0.3 +1.0
Santiago Casilla 33 FA-elig 54 0.4 4.5 -3.2
Jeremy Affeldt 35 FA-elig 62 0.4 6.0 -4.8
Travis Ishikawa↔ PIT 30 arb 47 0.3 0.1 +0.8
George Kontos 29 pre-arb 24 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Gary Brown 25 – 7 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Hunter Strickland 25 – 9 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Tyler Colvin 28 arb 57 0.1 1.0 -0.7
Héctor Sánchez 24 arb 66 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Matt Duffy 23 – 34 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Jean Machi 32 pre-arb 71 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Erik Cordier 28 pre-arb 7 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Chris Heston 26 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Jake Dunning 25 – 1 -0.0 – –
Ehire Adrianza 24 pre-arb 53 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Matt Cain 29 FA-elig 15 -0.1 20.0 -20.2
Tim Lincecum 30 FA-elig 34 -0.1 17.0 -17.2
Guillermo Quiroz 32 – 2 -0.1 – –
Brett Bochy 26 – 3 -0.1 – –
Mike Kickham 25 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Tony Abreu 29 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.7 -1.1
Joaquin Arias 29 FA-elig 107 -0.1 1.1 -1.5
David Huff↔ NYY 29 arb 16 -0.2 0.2 -0.6
Marco Scutaro 38 FA-elig 5 -0.2 6.7 -7.2
Adam Duvall 25 – 28 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
Sergio Romo 31 FA-elig 64 -0.2 5.5 -6.1
Dan Uggla↔ ATL 34 FA-elig 4 -0.2 1.0 -1.7
Juan Gutierrez 30 FA-elig 61 -0.2 0.8 -1.5
Chris Dominguez 27 – 8 -0.4 0.1 -1.3
Javier López 36 FA-elig 65 -0.4 4.0 -5.3
Juan Carlos Perez 27 pre-arb 61 -0.5 0.5 -1.9

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 43 of them (93%). 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.