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GM: Mike DeBartolo (since 2025)

2025 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.4
WAB — wins above budget
-7.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
66–96 (0.407)
record
-9M
surplus $M (value/$)
15.4
roster fWAR
$61.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
James Wood 22 pre-arb 157 3.3 0.8 +11.7
CJ Abrams 24 pre-arb 144 3.2 0.8 +11.3
MacKenzie Gore 26 arb 30 2.9 2.9 +8.2
Daylen Lile 22 – 91 1.4 0.5 +4.9
José A. Ferrer 25 – 72 1.4 – –
Brad Lord 25 – 48 1.2 0.8 +4.0
Trevor Williams 33 FA-elig 17 1.2 7.0 -2.5
Michael Soroka↔ CHC 27 – 16 1.2 4.5 -0.1
Jacob Young 25 pre-arb 120 1.0 0.8 +3.1
Mitchell Parker 25 pre-arb 33 0.9 0.8 +2.6
Alex Call↔ LAD 30 – 72 0.8 0.3 +2.9
Nasim Nuñez 24 pre-arb 39 0.8 0.3 +2.6
Luis García Jr. 25 – 139 0.7 – –
Andrew Alvarez 26 – 5 0.6 0.1 +2.1
Drew Millas 27 pre-arb 18 0.6 0.4 +1.8
Kyle Finnegan↔ DET 33 – 40 0.6 1.0 +1.2
Clayton Beeter↔ NYY 26 pre-arb 24 0.5 0.2 +1.6
Cade Cavalli 26 pre-arb 10 0.5 0.4 +1.3
Jorge López 32 – 26 0.3 3.0 -1.9
Dylan Crews 23 pre-arb 85 0.2 0.8 -0.0
Paul DeJong 31 FA-elig 57 0.2 1.1 -0.5
PJ Poulin 28 – 28 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Andrew Chafin↔ ANA 35 – 26 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Amed Rosario↔ NYY 29 – 47 0.1 1.0 -0.6
Trey Lipscomb 25 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Josh Bell 32 FA-elig 140 0.1 6.0 -5.7
Luis García↔ ANA 38 arb 10 0.1 0.8 -0.5
José Tena 24 pre-arb 50 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Sauryn Lao↔ SEA 25 – 6 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Julian Fernández↔ LAD 29 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
C.J. Stubbs 28 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Mason Thompson 27 arb 14 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Andry Lara 22 – 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Colin Poche↔ NYM 31 – 13 -0.2 1.3 -1.9
Brady House 22 – 73 -0.3 0.4 -1.4
Jorge Alfaro 32 arb 14 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Cole Henry 25 – 57 -0.3 0.7 -1.7
Ryan Loutos↔ LAD 26 pre-arb 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.3
Orlando Ribalta 27 pre-arb 22 -0.3 0.7 -1.9
Zach Brzykcy 25 pre-arb 26 -0.3 0.4 -1.7
Jake Irvin 28 pre-arb 33 -0.4 0.8 -2.3
Andrés Chaparro 26 pre-arb 34 -0.4 0.6 -2.2
Lucas Sims 31 – 18 -0.5 3.0 -4.7
Robert Hassell III 23 – 70 -0.5 – –
Konnor Pilkington 27 pre-arb 32 -0.5 0.4 -2.2
Eduardo Salazar 27 pre-arb 30 -0.5 0.3 -2.2
Jackson Rutledge 26 pre-arb 63 -0.5 0.7 -2.6
Shinnosuke Ogasawara 27 – 23 -0.5 1.5 -3.5
Riley Adams 29 pre-arb 83 -0.6 0.8 -3.1
Nathaniel Lowe↔ BOS 29 – 119 -0.8 8.0 -11.0
Keibert Ruiz 26 arb 68 -1.0 5.4 -9.3

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 of them (94%). 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.