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GM: Bobby Evans (since 2016)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.7
WAB — wins above budget
-0.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
87–75 (0.537)
record · made playoffs
-54M
surplus $M (value/$)
37.8
roster fWAR
$175.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Buster Posey 29 FA-elig 146 6.7 20.0 +1.6
Madison Bumgarner 26 FA-elig 36 5.3 9.8 +7.3
Johnny Cueto 30 FA-elig 32 4.6 15.8 -0.8
Brandon Crawford 29 arb 155 4.1 6.0 +7.2
Brandon Belt 28 arb 156 3.7 6.2 +5.8
Jeff Samardzija 31 FA-elig 34 2.3 10.8 -3.2
Joe Panik 25 pre-arb 127 1.8 0.5 +5.3
Ángel Pagán 34 FA-elig 129 1.4 11.2 -6.6
Hunter Pence 33 FA-elig 106 1.3 18.5 -14.3
Eduardo Núñez↔ MIN 29 FA-elig 50 1.1 0.5 +2.9
Derek Law 25 – 61 1.0 0.5 +2.7
Matt Duffy↔ TBR 25 pre-arb 70 0.9 0.4 +2.5
Kelby Tomlinson 26 pre-arb 52 0.8 0.5 +2.2
Jake Peavy 35 FA-elig 31 0.8 15.0 -12.3
Matt Moore↔ TBR 27 arb 12 0.7 1.8 +0.6
Hunter Strickland 27 pre-arb 72 0.7 0.5 +1.6
Will Smith↔ MIL 26 arb 26 0.6 0.7 +1.2
Denard Span 32 FA-elig 143 0.6 5.0 -3.1
Cory Gearrin 30 arb 56 0.5 0.6 +1.2
Conor Gillaspie 28 arb 101 0.5 0.5 +1.1
Gorkys Hernández 28 pre-arb 26 0.4 0.1 +1.1
Jarrett Parker 27 pre-arb 63 0.3 0.3 +0.8
Mac Williamson 25 pre-arb 54 0.3 0.4 +0.6
Ty Blach 25 – 4 0.3 0.1 +0.8
George Kontos 31 arb 57 0.1 1.1 -0.7
Ramiro Pena 30 arb 30 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Sergio Romo 33 FA-elig 40 0.1 9.0 -8.6
Joe Nathan↔ CHC 41 FA-elig 7 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Santiago Casilla 35 FA-elig 62 0.1 6.5 -6.2
Albert Suárez 26 – 22 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Steven Okert 24 – 16 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Rubén Tejada↔ STL 26 FA-elig 13 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Matt Reynolds 31 arb 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Grant Green 28 pre-arb 18 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Vin Mazzaro 29 arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Chris Stratton 25 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Chris Heston 28 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.5 -1.0
Gordon Beckham↔ ATL 29 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Mike Broadway 29 – 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Matt Cain 31 FA-elig 21 -0.2 21.0 -21.7
Ehire Adrianza 26 arb 40 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Trevor Brown 24 pre-arb 75 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Grégor Blanco 32 FA-elig 106 -0.6 3.9 -5.9
Javier López 38 FA-elig 68 -0.7 5.0 -7.3
Josh Osich 27 pre-arb 59 -1.2 0.5 -4.3

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.