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GM: Chuck Lamar (since 1995)

2003 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-3.4
WAB — wins above budget
+1.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
63–99 (0.389)
record
+14M
surplus $M (value/$)
20.7
roster fWAR
$20.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Travis Lee 28 arb 145 3.4 0.5 +5.5
Julio Lugo↔ HOU 27 arb 117 3.2 1.3 +4.4
Aubrey Huff 26 arb 162 3.1 0.3 +5.2
Marlon Anderson 29 arb 145 2.2 0.6 +3.2
Carl Crawford 21 pre-arb 151 1.9 0.3 +3.1
Damian Rolls 25 arb 107 1.9 0.3 +3.1
Rocco Baldelli 21 pre-arb 156 1.8 0.3 +2.9
Geremi Gonzalez 28 – 25 1.6 – –
Toby Hall 27 arb 130 1.3 0.3 +1.9
Jared Sandberg 25 – 55 0.8 – –
Victor Zambrano 27 pre-arb 34 0.8 0.3 +1.2
Antonio Perez 23 – 48 0.8 – –
Jorge Sosa 25 pre-arb 29 0.8 0.3 +1.0
Travis Harper 27 arb 61 0.7 0.3 +0.9
Rey Ordonez 32 FA-elig 34 0.6 6.5 -5.4
Joe Kennedy 24 pre-arb 32 0.6 0.3 +0.8
Doug Waechter 22 – 6 0.6 – –
Chris Truby 29 – 13 0.4 – –
Mark Malaska 25 – 22 0.4 – –
Jason Tyner 26 – 46 0.3 – –
Chad Gaudin 20 – 15 0.2 – –
Mike Venafro 29 arb 24 0.2 0.3 +0.0
Lance Carter 28 arb 62 0.2 0.3 +0.0
Bobby Seay 25 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Rob Bell 26 – 19 0.1 – –
Jeff Liefer↔ WSN 28 arb 9 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Felix Escalona 24 – 10 -0.0 – –
Ben Grieve 27 FA-elig 55 -0.0 5.5 -5.5
Jesus Colome 25 pre-arb 54 -0.0 0.3 -0.4
Jason Smith 25 – 1 -0.1 – –
Adam Piatt↔ OAK 27 arb 14 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
John Rocker 28 – 2 -0.1 – –
Matt Diaz 25 – 4 -0.1 – –
Brandon Backe 25 – 29 -0.1 – –
Brent Abernathy↔ KCR 25 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Jason Standridge 24 – 8 -0.1 – –
Al Levine↔ KCR 35 – 36 -0.2 – –
Jonny Gomes 22 – 8 -0.2 – –
Jon Switzer 23 – 5 -0.2 – –
Jim Parque 28 arb 5 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Javier Valentin 27 FA-elig 49 -0.2 0.3 -0.7
Dewon Brazelton 23 – 10 -0.2 – –
Seth McClung 22 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.3 -0.7
George Lombard 27 – 13 -0.3 – –
Terry Shumpert 36 FA-elig 59 -0.3 0.3 -0.8
Carlos Reyes 34 – 10 -0.3 – –
Steve Parris 35 FA-elig 10 -0.6 0.4 -1.4
Pete Laforest 25 – 19 -0.7 – –
Al Martin 35 FA-elig 100 -0.7 0.3 -1.5
Nick Bierbrodt↔ CLE 25 pre-arb 13 -0.9 0.2 -1.8
Damion Easley 33 – 36 -1.3 – –

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 28 of them (55%). 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.