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GM: Douglas Melvin (since 1995)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.6
WAB — wins above budget
-4.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–70 (0.514)
record
-8M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.8
roster fWAR
$35.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Roger Pavlik 27 arb 31 3.2 0.3 +2.8
Bob Tewksbury 34 FA-elig 22 3.1 1.5 +1.5
Kenny Rogers 30 FA-elig 31 3.0 3.8 -0.9
Ivan Rodriguez 23 arb 130 3.0 2.7 +0.2
Will Clark 31 FA-elig 123 2.6 5.6 -3.2
Mickey Tettleton 34 FA-elig 134 2.2 1.0 +1.1
Dean Palmer 26 FA-elig 36 2.0 1.9 -0.0
Bobby Witt↔ MIA 31 FA-elig 10 1.6 0.6 +0.9
Juan Gonzalez 25 FA-elig 90 1.5 5.4 -3.9
Rusty Greer 26 pre-arb 131 1.4 0.2 +1.2
Roger McDowell 34 FA-elig 64 0.9 0.6 +0.3
Kevin Gross 34 FA-elig 31 0.9 2.9 -2.0
Matt Whiteside 27 arb 40 0.9 0.2 +0.6
Ed Vosberg 33 FA-elig 44 0.8 0.1 +0.6
Mark McLemore 30 FA-elig 129 0.8 1.2 -0.5
Darren Oliver 24 pre-arb 17 0.7 0.2 +0.5
Otis Nixon 36 FA-elig 139 0.7 3.1 -2.5
Jeff Frye 28 arb 90 0.6 0.2 +0.4
Benji Gil 22 pre-arb 130 0.6 0.1 +0.4
Jeff Russell 33 FA-elig 37 0.6 0.6 -0.1
Craig Worthington↔ CIN 30 FA-elig 26 0.5 0.1 +0.3
Dennis Cook↔ CLE 32 FA-elig 35 0.4 0.3 +0.0
Mike Pagliarulo 35 FA-elig 86 0.4 0.4 -0.0
Candy Maldonado↔ TOR 34 FA-elig 13 0.2 0.0 +0.2
Chris Howard 29 – 4 0.0 – –
Mark Brandenburg 24 pre-arb 11 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Hector Fajardo 24 – 5 0.0 – –
Chris Nichting 29 pre-arb 13 0.0 0.1 -0.1
John Dettmer 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Shawn Hare 28 – 18 -0.0 – –
Jose Alberro 26 pre-arb 12 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Dave Valle 34 FA-elig 36 -0.1 0.6 -0.7
Billy Hatcher 34 – 6 -0.1 – –
John Marzano 32 – 2 -0.1 – –
Rick Helling 24 – 3 -0.1 – –
Sam Horn 31 – 11 -0.1 – –
Scott Taylor 28 – 3 -0.3 – –
Eric Fox 31 arb 10 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Jack Voigt↔ BAL 29 arb 33 -0.3 0.1 -0.5
Steve Buechele↔ CHC 33 – 9 -0.4 – –
Wilson Heredia 23 pre-arb 6 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Danny Darwin↔ TOR 39 FA-elig 7 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Lou Frazier↔ WSN 30 pre-arb 49 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Esteban Beltre 27 arb 54 -0.5 0.1 -0.7
Terry Burrows 26 pre-arb 28 -0.7 0.1 -0.8
Luis Ortiz 25 pre-arb 41 -1.2 0.1 -1.2

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (78%). 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 TEX
Rafael Palmeiro198842.3
Elvis Andrus200729.8
Michael Young200025.0
Charlie Hough198011.2
John Burkett199411.0
Nathaniel Lowe202010.8
Scott Fletcher198510.3
Aaron Sele19979.6
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Kyle Hendricks201224.4
Travis Hafner200222.3
Rich Aurilia199419.8
John Danks200617.4
Ian Kinsler201316.3
Tom Henke198516.2
Ron Darling198214.0
Odúbel Herrera201413.2
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.