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GM: Brian Sabean (since 1997)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-2.3
WAB — wins above budget
-0.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
84–78 (0.519)
record
-50M
surplus $M (value/$)
38.2
roster fWAR
$170.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Buster Posey 28 FA-elig 150 6.8 16.5 +4.8
Madison Bumgarner 25 FA-elig 36 6.1 6.8 +12.4
Matt Duffy 24 pre-arb 149 4.4 0.5 +13.4
Brandon Crawford 28 arb 143 4.3 3.2 +10.2
Brandon Belt 27 arb 137 3.9 3.6 +8.8
Joe Panik 24 pre-arb 100 3.8 0.5 +11.5
Grégor Blanco 31 FA-elig 115 2.0 3.6 +2.7
Sergio Romo 32 FA-elig 70 1.8 6.0 -0.4
Jake Peavy 34 FA-elig 19 1.5 9.0 -4.2
Chris Heston 27 pre-arb 31 1.5 0.5 +4.3
Hunter Pence 32 FA-elig 52 1.3 18.5 -14.5
Norichika Aoki 33 arb 93 1.2 4.0 -0.1
Kelby Tomlinson 25 – 54 1.1 0.2 +3.4
Jarrett Parker 26 pre-arb 21 0.9 0.1 +2.6
Hunter Strickland 26 pre-arb 55 0.7 0.4 +1.9
Marlon Byrd↔ CIN 37 FA-elig 39 0.6 2.3 -0.3
Tim Lincecum 31 FA-elig 16 0.4 18.0 -16.7
Tim Hudson 39 FA-elig 24 0.4 12.0 -10.8
Javier López 37 FA-elig 77 0.2 4.0 -3.3
Ehire Adrianza 25 pre-arb 52 0.2 0.3 +0.2
Alejandro De Aza↔ BAL 31 FA-elig 24 0.1 1.1 -0.6
Andrew Susac 25 pre-arb 52 0.1 0.5 -0.0
Santiago Casilla 34 FA-elig 67 0.1 5.0 -4.6
Jackson Williams 29 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Cory Gearrin 29 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Ryan Vogelsong 37 FA-elig 33 0.1 4.0 -3.8
Brett Bochy 27 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Mike Broadway 28 pre-arb 21 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Juan Carlos Perez 28 – 22 -0.1 – –
Kevin Frandsen 33 arb 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Josh Osich 26 – 35 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Cody Hall 27 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Mike Leake↔ CIN 27 arb 12 -0.1 3.2 -3.4
Travis Ishikawa↔ PIT 31 FA-elig 6 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Ryan Lollis 28 – 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Justin Maxwell 31 FA-elig 100 -0.2 1.0 -1.5
Ángel Pagán 33 FA-elig 133 -0.2 10.2 -10.7
Nick Noonan 26 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Yusmeiro Petit 30 FA-elig 42 -0.2 2.1 -2.8
George Kontos 30 arb 73 -0.2 0.5 -1.3
Jean Machi↔ BOS 33 arb 33 -0.3 0.3 -1.1
Mac Williamson 24 – 10 -0.3 0.0 -1.1
Héctor Sánchez 25 arb 28 -0.3 0.8 -1.9
Trevor Brown 23 pre-arb 13 -0.4 0.0 -1.2
Joaquin Arias 30 FA-elig 40 -0.4 1.4 -2.8
Matt Cain 30 FA-elig 13 -0.7 21.0 -23.3
Casey McGehee↔ MIA 32 FA-elig 49 -0.8 2.2 -4.7
Jeremy Affeldt 36 FA-elig 52 -0.9 6.0 -8.8

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 of them (98%). 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.