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GM: Michael Rizzo (since 2010)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.8
WAB — wins above budget
+7.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
97–65 (0.599)
record · made playoffs
-24M
surplus $M (value/$)
46.1
roster fWAR
$180.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Max Scherzer 32 FA-elig 31 6.7 22.1 +0.4
Stephen Strasburg 28 FA-elig 28 6.0 18.3 +1.9
Anthony Rendon 27 arb 147 5.9 5.8 +14.1
Bryce Harper 24 arb 111 4.1 13.6 +0.3
Daniel Murphy 32 FA-elig 144 3.6 12.0 +0.3
Gio Gonzalez 31 FA-elig 32 3.5 12.0 -0.1
Ryan Zimmerman 32 FA-elig 144 3.5 14.0 -2.2
Trea Turner 24 pre-arb 98 3.1 0.6 +9.9
Michael A. Taylor 26 arb 118 2.9 0.6 +9.2
Tanner Roark 30 arb 32 2.5 4.3 +4.0
Wilmer Difo 25 pre-arb 124 1.2 0.5 +3.5
Sean Doolittle↔ OAK 30 arb 30 1.1 1.5 +2.1
Matt Albers 34 FA-elig 63 1.0 1.1 +2.1
Ryan Madson↔ OAK 36 FA-elig 20 0.9 2.6 +0.6
Adam Lind 33 FA-elig 116 0.9 1.0 +2.0
Adam Eaton 28 arb 23 0.8 4.0 -1.4
Joe Ross 24 pre-arb 20 0.7 0.4 +1.9
Koda Glover 24 pre-arb 23 0.6 0.5 +1.6
Howie Kendrick↔ PHI 33 FA-elig 52 0.6 5.7 -3.7
Brian Goodwin 26 pre-arb 74 0.5 0.4 +1.3
Enny Romero 26 arb 53 0.4 0.6 +1.0
Oliver Pérez 35 FA-elig 50 0.4 4.0 -2.7
Blake Treinen↔ OAK 29 arb 37 0.4 0.3 +1.0
Brandon Kintzler↔ MIN 32 FA-elig 27 0.3 1.1 -0.1
Matt Grace 28 pre-arb 40 0.3 0.4 +0.6
A.J. Cole 25 pre-arb 11 0.2 0.2 +0.6
Adrián Sanchez 26 – 34 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Sammy Solís 28 pre-arb 30 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Victor Robles 20 – 13 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Austin Adams 26 – 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Ryan Raburn 36 FA-elig 25 -0.0 0.3 -0.4
Stephen Drew 34 FA-elig 46 -0.1 3.5 -3.7
Raudy Read 23 – 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Grant Green 29 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Trevor Gott 24 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Jeremy Guthrie 38 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Edwin Jackson↔ BAL 33 FA-elig 19 -0.1 2.1 -2.6
Jayson Werth 38 FA-elig 70 -0.1 21.0 -21.5
Joe Blanton 36 FA-elig 51 -0.2 4.0 -4.6
Pedro Severino 23 pre-arb 17 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Rafael Bautista 24 – 17 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Alejandro De Aza 33 – 28 -0.3 – –
Andrew Stevenson 23 – 37 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
Erick Fedde 24 – 3 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Jacob Turner 26 FA-elig 18 -0.4 1.5 -3.0
Chris Heisey 32 FA-elig 38 -0.5 1.4 -3.2
Jose Lobatón 32 FA-elig 51 -0.6 1.6 -3.6
Shawn Kelley 33 FA-elig 33 -1.1 5.5 -9.3
Matt Wieters 31 FA-elig 123 -1.2 10.5 -14.4

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 of them (98%). 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.