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GM: Bobby Evans (since 2016)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-22.7
WAB — wins above budget
-18.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
64–98 (0.395)
record
-121M
surplus $M (value/$)
19.9
roster fWAR
$188.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Buster Posey 30 FA-elig 140 4.9 21.4 -4.7
Jeff Samardzija 32 FA-elig 35 3.6 19.8 -7.8
Brandon Belt 29 FA-elig 104 2.4 4.0 +4.0
Madison Bumgarner 27 FA-elig 17 2.1 11.5 -4.4
Joe Panik 26 arb 138 1.9 0.6 +5.9
Brandon Crawford 30 FA-elig 144 1.8 8.2 -2.1
Ty Blach 26 pre-arb 38 1.8 0.5 +5.4
Matt Moore 28 FA-elig 32 0.9 7.0 -3.8
Johnny Cueto 31 FA-elig 25 0.9 21.8 -18.7
Hunter Strickland 28 arb 68 0.8 0.6 +2.0
Eduardo Núñez↔ BOS 30 FA-elig 76 0.6 2.8 -0.7
Chris Stratton 26 pre-arb 13 0.6 0.2 +1.7
Gorkys Hernández 29 arb 128 0.6 0.5 +1.4
Kelby Tomlinson 27 pre-arb 104 0.5 0.4 +1.1
Mark Melancon 32 FA-elig 32 0.4 9.0 -7.5
Denard Span 33 FA-elig 129 0.4 11.0 -9.8
Austin Slater 24 – 34 0.4 0.4 +0.9
Jarrett Parker 28 pre-arb 51 0.3 0.5 +0.6
Matt Cain 32 FA-elig 27 0.3 21.0 -19.9
Cory Gearrin 31 FA-elig 68 0.3 1.1 -0.2
Tim Federowicz 29 pre-arb 13 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Kyle Crick 24 – 30 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Hunter Pence 34 FA-elig 134 0.1 18.5 -18.1
Roberto Gómez 27 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Sam Dyson↔ TEX 29 arb 38 0.1 2.4 -2.1
George Kontos↔ PIT 32 FA-elig 50 0.1 1.3 -1.0
Albert Suárez 27 pre-arb 18 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Neil Ramírez↔ NYM 28 arb 9 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Bryan Morris 30 arb 20 0.1 1.2 -1.1
Reyes Moronta 24 – 7 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Dan Slania 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Derek Law 26 pre-arb 41 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Nick Hundley 33 FA-elig 101 -0.0 2.0 -2.0
Miguel Gómez 24 pre-arb 22 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Steven Okert 25 pre-arb 44 -0.1 0.3 -0.7
Jae-Gyun Hwang 29 – 18 -0.2 1.5 -2.3
Drew Stubbs 32 – 10 -0.3 – –
Pablo Sandoval↔ BOS 30 FA-elig 47 -0.3 10.5 -11.3
Carlos Moncrief 28 – 28 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Michael Morse 35 FA-elig 24 -0.3 0.5 -1.6
Mac Williamson 26 pre-arb 28 -0.3 0.5 -1.7
Chris Marrero 28 FA-elig 15 -0.4 0.6 -2.0
Josh Osich 28 pre-arb 54 -0.4 0.4 -1.9
Conor Gillaspie 29 FA-elig 44 -0.5 1.4 -2.9
Justin Ruggiano 35 – 19 -0.5 0.4 -2.0
Aaron Hill 35 FA-elig 34 -0.6 2.0 -4.1
Christian Arroyo 22 – 34 -0.6 0.1 -2.2
Orlando Calixte 25 pre-arb 29 -0.7 0.2 -2.5
Ryder Jones 23 – 53 -0.9 0.2 -3.3

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 of them (96%). 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.