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President of baseball ops: Farhan Zaidi (since 2019) · GM: Scott Harris (since 2019)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-3.9 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+3.1 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
29–31 (0.483)
record
-18M
surplus $M (value/$)
13.9
roster fWAR
$120.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brandon Belt 32 FA-elig 51 1.9 17.2 -3.3
Mike Yastrzemski 29 pre-arb 54 1.9 0.2 +13.6
Kevin Gausman 29 FA-elig 12 1.6 9.0 +2.5
Brandon Crawford 33 FA-elig 54 1.5 15.2 -3.9
Alex Dickerson 30 arb 52 1.1 0.9 +7.5
Wilmer Flores 28 FA-elig 55 1.1 3.0 +4.8
Austin Slater 27 pre-arb 31 1.0 0.2 +6.9
Drew Smyly 31 FA-elig 7 0.9 4.0 +2.9
Evan Longoria 34 FA-elig 53 0.9 15.2 -8.4
Donovan Solano 32 FA-elig 54 0.9 1.4 +5.0
Mauricio Dubón 25 pre-arb 54 0.8 0.2 +5.6
Tyler Anderson 30 arb 13 0.8 1.8 +3.9
Logan Webb 23 pre-arb 13 0.7 0.2 +4.6
Johnny Cueto 34 FA-elig 12 0.5 21.8 -18.1
Tyler Rogers 29 pre-arb 29 0.5 0.2 +3.5
Darin Ruf 33 pre-arb 40 0.5 0.3 +3.3
Trevor Cahill 32 FA-elig 11 0.4 0.1 +2.9
Jarlín García 27 pre-arb 19 0.3 0.2 +2.0
Daniel Robertson 26 pre-arb 13 0.3 0.4 +1.5
Caleb Baragar 26 – 24 0.2 0.2 +1.2
Joey Bart 23 – 33 0.2 0.1 +1.1
Sam Selman 29 pre-arb 24 0.2 0.2 +0.9
Chadwick Tromp 25 – 24 0.1 0.2 +0.5
Wandy Peralta 28 arb 25 0.1 0.8 -0.3
Tyler Heineman 29 pre-arb 15 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Tony Watson 35 FA-elig 21 0.0 3.0 -2.7
Rico Garcia 26 pre-arb 12 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Luis Alexander Basabe 23 – 9 -0.0 – –
Rob Brantly 30 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Jaylin Davis 25 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Dany Jiménez 26 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.3
Sam Coonrod 27 pre-arb 18 -0.0 0.2 -0.5
Andrew Suárez 27 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Conner Menez 25 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Andrew Triggs↔ BOS 31 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Joey Rickard 29 arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Justin Smoak↔ MIL 33 FA-elig 3 -0.2 0.3 -1.5
Shaun Anderson 25 pre-arb 18 -0.2 0.1 -1.3
Dereck Rodríguez 28 – 2 -0.2 0.0 -1.7
Steven Duggar 26 pre-arb 21 -0.3 0.1 -2.2
Joe McCarthy 26 – 4 -0.3 0.0 -2.4
Pablo Sandoval↔ ATL 33 FA-elig 33 -0.5 0.1 -3.4
Jeff Samardzija 35 FA-elig 4 -0.5 19.8 -23.3
Hunter Pence 37 FA-elig 17 -0.7 3.0 -8.2
Trevor Gott 27 pre-arb 15 -1.1 0.2 -8.5

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 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.