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GM: Chuck Lamar (since 1995)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-10.0
WAB — wins above budget
-11.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
69–93 (0.426)
record
-14M
surplus $M (value/$)
19.7
roster fWAR
$38.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Fred McGriff 35 FA-elig 144 3.6 5.2 -0.7
Jose Canseco 34 FA-elig 113 2.4 3.3 -0.3
Roberto Hernandez 34 FA-elig 72 2.2 6.2 -3.4
John Flaherty 31 FA-elig 117 2.0 1.3 +1.3
Wilson Alvarez 29 FA-elig 28 1.8 4.5 -2.2
Ryan Rupe 24 pre-arb 24 1.8 0.2 +2.0
Bobby Witt 35 FA-elig 32 1.8 1.1 +1.1
Rick White 30 arb 63 1.6 0.3 +1.7
Tony Graffanino 27 arb 39 1.4 0.3 +1.4
Bubba Trammell 27 pre-arb 82 1.3 0.2 +1.4
Dave Eiland 32 FA-elig 21 1.3 0.3 +1.4
Mike DiFelice 30 arb 51 1.3 0.3 +1.3
Rolando Arrojo 33 pre-arb 24 1.1 0.2 +1.1
Kevin Stocker 29 FA-elig 79 0.9 2.4 -1.3
Miguel Cairo 25 arb 120 0.5 0.2 +0.3
Bryan Rekar 27 – 27 0.4 – –
Randy Winn 25 pre-arb 79 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Norm Charlton 36 FA-elig 42 0.3 0.5 -0.1
Scott Aldred↔ PHI 31 FA-elig 37 0.3 0.3 +0.1
Jim Mecir 29 arb 17 0.3 0.3 +0.1
Dan Wheeler 21 – 6 0.2 – –
Albie Lopez 27 FA-elig 51 0.2 0.6 -0.4
Mickey Callaway 24 – 6 0.2 – –
Cory Lidle 27 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Alan Newman 29 pre-arb 18 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Tony Saunders 25 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Dave Martinez 34 FA-elig 143 0.1 2.0 -1.9
Eddie Gaillard 28 – 8 0.0 – –
Jeff Sparks 27 – 8 0.0 – –
Herbert Perry Jr. 29 arb 66 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Julio Franco 40 – 1 -0.0 – –
Jim Morris 35 – 5 -0.0 – –
Rich Butler 26 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Danny Clyburn 25 pre-arb 28 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Esteban Yan 24 arb 50 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Aaron Ledesma 28 arb 93 -0.3 0.2 -0.6
Steve Cox 24 – 6 -0.3 – –
Mike Duvall 24 pre-arb 40 -0.3 0.2 -0.6
Wade Boggs 41 FA-elig 90 -0.3 0.8 -1.2
Julio Santana 26 pre-arb 22 -0.3 0.3 -0.7
Terrell Lowery 28 pre-arb 66 -0.7 0.2 -1.0
Paul Sorrento 33 FA-elig 99 -0.8 3.0 -4.0
David Lamb 24 pre-arb 55 -0.9 0.2 -1.4
Jose Guillen↔ PIT 23 pre-arb 47 -1.1 0.2 -1.5
Bobby Smith 25 pre-arb 68 -1.2 0.2 -1.7
Quinton McCracken 28 arb 40 -1.2 1.9 -3.4

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (83%). 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.