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GM: Bobby Evans (since 2016)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-14.7
WAB — wins above budget
-18.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
73–89 (0.451)
record
-129M
surplus $M (value/$)
21.4
roster fWAR
$202.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brandon Crawford 31 FA-elig 151 2.6 15.2 -6.3
Buster Posey 31 FA-elig 105 2.6 22.2 -13.3
Derek Holland 31 FA-elig 37 2.0 1.8 +5.2
Will Smith 28 FA-elig 54 2.0 2.5 +4.4
Tony Watson 33 FA-elig 72 1.8 3.0 +3.2
Dereck Rodríguez 26 – 21 1.7 0.4 +5.6
Madison Bumgarner 28 FA-elig 22 1.6 12.0 -6.5
Brandon Belt 30 FA-elig 112 1.5 17.2 -12.0
Andrew McCutchen↔ NYY 31 FA-elig 130 1.3 12.4 -8.0
Reyes Moronta 25 pre-arb 69 1.1 0.5 +3.2
Andrew Suárez 25 – 29 1.0 0.5 +2.8
Ty Blach 27 pre-arb 50 0.8 0.6 +2.2
Chris Stratton 27 pre-arb 28 0.8 0.6 +2.0
Sam Dyson 30 FA-elig 74 0.6 4.4 -2.4
Alen Hanson 25 pre-arb 110 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Steven Duggar 24 – 41 0.5 0.2 +1.5
Evan Longoria 32 FA-elig 125 0.4 13.7 -12.2
Aramis Garcia 25 – 19 0.4 0.1 +1.2
Mark Melancon 33 FA-elig 41 0.4 20.0 -18.8
Mac Williamson 27 pre-arb 28 0.3 0.2 +0.9
Gorkys Hernández 30 FA-elig 142 0.3 0.6 +0.5
Joe Panik 27 arb 102 0.3 3.5 -2.5
Pablo Sandoval 31 FA-elig 92 0.3 0.5 +0.3
Ryder Jones 24 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.1 +0.7
Roberto Gómez 28 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.6 +0.1
Chase d'Arnaud 31 pre-arb 42 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Johnny Cueto 32 FA-elig 9 0.1 21.8 -21.4
Steven Okert 26 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Casey Kelly 28 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Ray Black 28 pre-arb 26 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Tyler Beede 25 – 2 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Miguel Gómez 25 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Abiatal Avelino 23 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Derek Law 27 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Pierce Johnson 27 pre-arb 37 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Austin Slater 25 pre-arb 74 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Hunter Strickland 29 arb 49 -0.1 1.6 -2.1
Jeff Samardzija 33 FA-elig 10 -0.2 19.8 -20.3
D.J. Snelten 26 – 4 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
José A. Váldez 28 – 4 -0.2 – –
Cory Gearrin↔ OAK 32 FA-elig 35 -0.2 0.9 -1.7
Kelby Tomlinson 28 arb 63 -0.2 0.6 -1.4
Josh Osich 29 arb 12 -0.2 0.6 -1.4
Chris Shaw 24 – 22 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Nick Hundley 34 FA-elig 96 -0.4 2.5 -3.9
Austin Jackson↔ NYM 31 – 59 -0.5 0.8 -2.6
Grégor Blanco 34 FA-elig 68 -0.5 1.0 -2.8
Hunter Pence 35 FA-elig 97 -1.0 18.5 -21.8

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.