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GM: Jim Beattie (since 1996)

2001 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-6.1
WAB — wins above budget
-11.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
68–94 (0.420)
record
-8M
surplus $M (value/$)
15.0
roster fWAR
$34.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Javier Vazquez 24 arb 32 6.7 2.0 +8.7
Vladimir Guerrero 26 arb 159 4.8 6.0 +1.7
Tony Armas 23 pre-arb 34 3.4 0.2 +5.2
Orlando Cabrera 26 arb 162 3.1 0.3 +4.7
Jose Vidro 26 arb 124 2.5 2.5 +1.5
Mike Thurman 27 arb 28 1.0 0.3 +1.3
Tomo Ohka↔ BOS 25 pre-arb 10 0.7 0.1 +1.1
Scott Strickland 25 pre-arb 77 0.6 0.2 +0.8
Graeme Lloyd 34 FA-elig 84 0.5 3.0 -2.1
Tim Raines Sr.↔ BAL 41 FA-elig 47 0.5 0.3 +0.5
Britt Reames 27 pre-arb 41 0.5 0.2 +0.6
Scott Stewart 25 pre-arb 62 0.5 0.2 +0.6
Brian Schneider 24 – 27 0.4 – –
Masato Yoshii 36 – 42 0.4 – –
Hideki Irabu 32 arb 3 0.3 2.5 -2.0
Carl Pavano 25 arb 8 0.3 1.3 -0.8
Darwin Cubillan 28 – 29 0.3 – –
Ugueth Urbina↔ BOS 27 FA-elig 45 0.3 3.0 -2.5
Troy Mattes 25 – 8 0.2 – –
Rob Ducey↔ PHI 36 FA-elig 27 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Curtis Pride 32 – 36 0.1 – –
Bob Scanlan 34 – 18 0.1 – –
Henry Mateo 24 – 5 0.0 – –
Sandy Martinez 30 FA-elig 1 -0.0 0.3 -0.4
Tomas De La Rosa 23 – 1 -0.0 – –
Mark Smith 31 – 80 -0.0 – –
Felipe Lira 29 – 4 -0.0 – –
Matt Blank 25 – 5 -0.1 – –
Terry Jones 30 arb 30 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Joey Eischen 31 – 24 -0.1 – –
Anthony Telford 35 FA-elig 8 -0.2 1.2 -1.5
Bobby Munoz 33 – 15 -0.2 – –
Mike Johnson 25 arb 10 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Milton Bradley↔ CLE 23 pre-arb 67 -0.2 0.2 -0.6
Guillermo Mota 27 pre-arb 53 -0.3 0.2 -0.7
Chris Peters 29 arb 13 -0.4 0.5 -1.1
Randy Knorr 32 FA-elig 34 -0.4 0.3 -1.0
Mike Mordecai 33 FA-elig 96 -0.5 0.4 -1.1
Lee Stevens 33 FA-elig 152 -0.5 4.0 -4.8
Brad Wilkerson 24 – 47 -0.6 – –
Andy Tracy 27 pre-arb 38 -0.7 0.2 -1.3
Fernando Seguignol 26 arb 46 -0.8 0.2 -1.5
Fernando Tatis 26 arb 41 -0.8 2.8 -4.1
Michael Barrett 24 arb 132 -1.2 0.3 -2.1
Ryan Minor 27 – 55 -1.2 – –
Geoff Blum 28 pre-arb 148 -1.3 0.3 -2.3
Peter Bergeron 23 pre-arb 102 -2.4 0.2 -4.2

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (68%). 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.