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GM: Dave Dombrowski (since 1989)

1990 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+3.8
WAB — wins above budget
-1.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record
-2M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.0
roster fWAR
$16.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Dennis Martinez 36 FA-elig 32 4.3 1.4 +0.5
Tim Wallach 32 FA-elig 161 3.7 1.2 +0.4
Larry Walker 23 pre-arb 133 3.0 0.1 +1.2
Kevin Gross 29 FA-elig 32 2.9 0.9 +0.3
Mike Fitzgerald 29 FA-elig 111 2.5 0.5 +0.6
Tim Raines Sr. 30 FA-elig 130 2.4 2.1 -1.0
Mark Gardner 28 pre-arb 27 2.1 0.1 +0.8
Delino DeShields 21 pre-arb 129 2.1 0.1 +0.8
Dave Martinez 25 arb 118 2.0 0.4 +0.5
Zane Smith↔ PIT 29 FA-elig 23 2.0 0.6 +0.3
Oil Can Boyd 30 FA-elig 31 1.6 0.4 +0.3
Andres Galarraga 29 arb 155 1.4 1.9 -1.3
Otis Nixon 31 FA-elig 119 1.4 0.3 +0.3
Marquis Grissom 23 pre-arb 98 1.1 0.1 +0.4
Spike Owen 29 FA-elig 149 0.7 0.9 -0.6
Mike Aldrete 29 arb 96 0.7 0.3 -0.0
Tim Burke 31 arb 58 0.6 1.6 -1.3
Brian Barnes 23 – 4 0.6 – –
Bill Sampen 27 pre-arb 59 0.5 0.1 +0.1
Chris Nabholz 23 pre-arb 11 0.5 0.1 +0.1
Scott Anderson 27 – 4 0.3 – –
Dave Schmidt 33 FA-elig 34 0.3 0.7 -0.5
Scott Ruskin↔ PIT 27 pre-arb 23 0.3 0.0 +0.1
Johnny Paredes↔ DET 27 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.0 -0.0
Joe Hesketh↔ ATL 31 FA-elig 2 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Eric Bullock 30 – 4 0.0 – –
Bob Malloy 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Rich Thompson 31 arb 1 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Rex Hudler↔ STL 29 FA-elig 4 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Rolando Roomes↔ CIN 28 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Brett Gideon 26 arb 1 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
Orlando Mercado↔ NYM 28 – 8 -0.1 – –
Tom Foley 30 FA-elig 73 -0.2 0.3 -0.4
Moises Alou↔ PIT 23 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.2
Wallace Johnson 33 FA-elig 47 -0.2 0.3 -0.4
John Costello↔ STL 29 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.1
Drew Hall 27 arb 42 -0.3 0.1 -0.3
Steve Frey 26 pre-arb 51 -0.3 0.1 -0.2
Dale Mohorcic 34 arb 34 -0.3 0.2 -0.4
Jerry Goff 26 – 52 -0.5 – –
Junior Noboa 25 FA-elig 81 -0.5 0.1 -0.3
Howard Farmer 23 pre-arb 6 -0.6 0.1 -0.4
Mel Rojas 23 pre-arb 23 -0.7 0.1 -0.4
Nelson Santovenia 28 arb 59 -0.9 0.2 -0.6

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (86%). 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 WSN
Dennis Martínez198622.5
Gio Gonzalez201120.8
Trea Turner201519.4
Liván Hernández200317.2
Bryn Smith197716.4
Moisés Alou199013.8
Tanner Roark201012.8
Mike Lansing199112.0
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Grady Sizemore200230.3
Cliff Lee200214.7
Tim Raines199014.5
Lucas Giolito201613.5
Cliff Floyd199713.2
Gary Carter198412.8
Maicer Izturis200412.2
Carl Pavano20028.1
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.