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GM: Dan Duquette (since 1992)

1994 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+21.0
WAB — wins above budget
+23.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–40 (0.649)
record
+23M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.5
roster fWAR
$19.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Moises Alou 27 arb 107 4.7 1.4 +4.0
Larry Walker 27 arb 103 4.4 4.0 +1.1
Marquis Grissom 27 arb 110 4.1 3.6 +1.2
Pedro Martínez 22 pre-arb 24 3.2 0.2 +3.5
Jeff Fassero 31 arb 21 2.6 0.3 +2.7
Butch Henry 25 pre-arb 24 2.3 0.1 +2.6
Wil Cordero 22 pre-arb 110 2.3 0.2 +2.5
Ken Hill 28 FA-elig 24 2.3 2.6 +0.1
Mike Lansing 26 pre-arb 106 1.5 0.2 +1.6
John Wetteland 27 arb 52 1.4 2.2 -0.6
Gil Heredia 28 arb 39 1.4 0.1 +1.5
Tim Scott 27 arb 40 1.1 0.2 +1.1
Lenny Webster 29 arb 57 1.0 0.2 +0.9
Mel Rojas 27 arb 58 0.9 0.8 +0.2
Kirk Rueter 23 pre-arb 20 0.9 0.1 +0.9
Sean Berry 28 arb 103 0.9 0.2 +0.8
Darrin Fletcher 27 arb 94 0.8 0.6 +0.3
Juan Bell 26 – 38 0.6 – –
Lou Frazier 29 pre-arb 76 0.6 0.1 +0.5
Jeff Shaw 27 arb 46 0.5 0.2 +0.4
Rondell White 22 pre-arb 40 0.4 0.1 +0.4
Cliff Floyd 21 pre-arb 100 0.4 0.1 +0.3
Tim Spehr 27 arb 52 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Randy Milligan 32 FA-elig 47 0.0 0.6 -0.6
Joey Eischen 24 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Heath Haynes 25 – 4 -0.0 – –
Brian Looney 24 – 1 -0.1 – –
Gabe White 22 – 7 -0.1 – –
Rod Henderson 23 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Denis Boucher 26 arb 10 -0.3 0.1 -0.5
Jeff Gardner 30 arb 18 -0.3 0.1 -0.5
Freddie Benavides 28 arb 47 -1.0 0.2 -1.3

32 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 28 of them (88%). 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.