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GM: Chuck Lamar (since 1995)

1998 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-13.4
WAB — wins above budget
-4.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
63–99 (0.389)
record
+0M
surplus $M (value/$)
24.4
roster fWAR
$27.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Tony Saunders 24 pre-arb 31 3.3 0.2 +3.3
Rolando Arrojo 32 pre-arb 32 3.2 0.2 +3.2
Fred McGriff 34 FA-elig 151 3.1 5.5 -2.2
Miguel Cairo 24 pre-arb 150 2.4 0.2 +2.4
Bobby Smith 24 pre-arb 117 2.4 0.2 +2.4
Aaron Ledesma 27 arb 95 1.7 0.2 +1.6
Quinton McCracken 27 arb 155 1.5 0.3 +1.4
Wade Boggs 40 FA-elig 123 1.4 1.1 +0.4
Jim Mecir 28 arb 68 1.3 0.2 +1.2
Wilson Alvarez 28 FA-elig 25 1.3 4.5 -3.1
Kevin Stocker 28 arb 112 1.1 1.8 -0.6
Bubba Trammell 26 pre-arb 59 0.9 0.2 +0.8
Albie Lopez 26 arb 54 0.7 0.2 +0.6
Bryan Rekar 26 arb 16 0.6 0.2 +0.5
Julio Santana↔ TEX 25 pre-arb 32 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Scott Aldred 30 FA-elig 48 0.4 0.3 +0.2
Mike DiFelice 29 pre-arb 84 0.4 0.2 +0.2
Roberto Hernandez 33 FA-elig 67 0.4 4.0 -3.6
Rick White 29 arb 38 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Randy Winn 24 pre-arb 109 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Dave Martinez 33 FA-elig 90 0.3 1.5 -1.2
Esteban Yan 23 pre-arb 64 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Jason Johnson 24 pre-arb 13 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Rick Gorecki 24 pre-arb 3 0.2 0.2 -0.0
Jerome Walton 32 – 12 0.1 – –
Mike Duvall 23 – 3 0.0 – –
Dave Eiland 31 – 1 0.0 – –
Brad Pennington 29 – 1 0.0 – –
Terrell Wade 25 arb 2 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Tim Laker↔ PIT 28 – 3 -0.1 – –
Kerry Robinson 24 – 2 -0.1 – –
Dan Carlson 28 pre-arb 10 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Mike Kelly 28 arb 106 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Paul Sorrento 32 FA-elig 137 -0.1 2.0 -2.1
Rich Butler 25 pre-arb 72 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Eddie Gaillard 27 – 6 -0.2 – –
Matt Ruebel 28 – 7 -0.2 – –
Scott McClain 26 – 9 -0.3 – –
Ramón Tatis 25 pre-arb 22 -0.4 0.2 -0.6
Dave Silvestri 30 – 8 -0.5 – –
John Flaherty 30 FA-elig 91 -0.6 1.6 -2.2
Dennis Springer 33 arb 29 -1.0 0.2 -1.4

42 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (76%). 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 TBR
Ben Zobrist200633.1
Yandy Díaz201819.5
Chris Archer201116.9
Scott Kazmir200415.0
Matt Joyce200810.7
Tyler Glasnow20189.3
Drew Rasmussen20219.1
Joey Wendle20178.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Bobby Abreu199745.3
Germán Márquez201619.1
Cristopher Sánchez201916.2
Jake Cronenworth201914.8
Joe Ryan202113.4
Nathaniel Lowe202010.8
Merrill Kelly201910.7
Blake Snell20209.8
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.