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GM: Jim Beattie (since 1996)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.9
WAB — wins above budget
+3.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
68–94 (0.420)
record
+13M
surplus $M (value/$)
25.5
roster fWAR
$17.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Vladimir Guerrero 24 arb 160 4.5 1.1 +4.6
Dustin Hermanson 26 arb 34 3.4 2.1 +2.2
Rondell White 27 FA-elig 138 3.1 3.0 +0.9
Javier Vazquez 22 pre-arb 26 2.7 0.2 +3.2
Miguel Batista 28 FA-elig 39 2.3 0.2 +2.6
Ugueth Urbina 25 arb 71 2.2 2.2 +0.5
Carl Pavano 23 pre-arb 19 1.8 0.2 +2.0
Anthony Telford 33 FA-elig 79 1.7 0.3 +1.9
Jose Vidro 24 pre-arb 140 1.5 0.2 +1.7
Mike Thurman 25 pre-arb 29 1.2 0.2 +1.3
Chris Widger 28 arb 124 0.9 0.9 +0.2
Dan Smith 23 pre-arb 20 0.9 0.2 +0.9
Orlando Merced 32 FA-elig 93 0.9 0.6 +0.5
Steve Kline 26 pre-arb 82 0.6 0.3 +0.4
Bobby Ayala↔ CHC 29 – 53 0.5 – –
Peter Bergeron 21 – 16 0.5 – –
Orlando Cabrera 24 pre-arb 104 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Fernando Seguignol 24 pre-arb 35 0.3 0.2 +0.2
J.D. Smart 25 – 29 0.2 – –
Guillermo Mota 25 pre-arb 51 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Jeremy Powell 23 pre-arb 17 0.2 0.2 -0.0
Tony Armas 21 – 1 0.1 – –
James Mouton 30 arb 95 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Trace Coquillette 25 – 17 0.1 – –
Scott Strickland 23 pre-arb 17 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Darron Cox 31 pre-arb 15 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Mike Mordecai 31 arb 109 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Robert Machado 26 arb 17 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Mel Rojas↔ DET 32 FA-elig 3 -0.0 1.1 -1.1
Michael Barrett 22 pre-arb 126 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Chris Stowers 24 – 4 -0.1 – –
Mike Maddux↔ LAD 37 FA-elig 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Mike Johnson 23 – 3 -0.1 – –
Ted Lilly 23 – 9 -0.1 – –
Geoff Blum 26 pre-arb 45 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Terry Jones 28 arb 17 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Ryan McGuire 27 pre-arb 88 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Jose Fernandez 24 – 8 -0.2 – –
Rick DeHart 29 – 3 -0.2 – –
Shayne Bennett 27 pre-arb 5 -0.3 0.2 -0.6
Manny Martinez 28 arb 137 -0.4 0.2 -0.7
Wilton Guerrero 24 arb 132 -0.8 0.3 -1.3
Brad Fullmer 24 pre-arb 100 -0.9 0.3 -1.4
Shane Andrews↔ CHC 27 arb 98 -1.2 1.0 -2.5

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 34 of them (77%). 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.