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President of baseball ops: David Stearns (since 2024)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-19.3 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-15.7 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
28–36 (0.438)
record
-40M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.3
roster fWAR
$276.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Juan Soto 27 FA-elig 47 3.8 61.9 -27.7
Nolan McLean 24 pre-arb 13 3.0 0.8 +25.7
Clay Holmes 33 FA-elig 9 2.9 13.0 +13.1
David Peterson 30 arb 13 2.8 8.1 +17.0
Freddy Peralta 30 FA-elig 13 2.6 8.0 +15.0
Luis Torrens 30 arb 40 2.3 2.3 +18.4
Christian Scott 27 pre-arb 8 2.3 0.6 +19.5
Carson Benge 23 – 61 2.1 0.8 +17.5
Luke Weaver 32 FA-elig 26 1.6 9.5 +4.9
A.J. Ewing 21 – 24 1.5 0.6 +12.5
Francisco Lindor 32 FA-elig 24 1.4 32.5 -20.1
Francisco Alvarez 24 pre-arb 37 1.3 2.4 +8.9
Jared Young 30 pre-arb 21 1.3 1.1 +10.1
Huascar Brazobán 36 pre-arb 27 1.2 1.1 +9.5
Sean Manaea 34 FA-elig 13 0.8 19.7 -12.5
Devin Williams 31 FA-elig 23 0.8 12.0 -5.1
Brooks Raley 38 FA-elig 26 0.7 4.8 +1.3
MJ Melendez 27 arb 40 0.5 1.3 +2.9
A.J. Minter 32 FA-elig 5 0.4 11.0 -7.3
Austin Warren 30 pre-arb 16 0.4 0.7 +2.9
Luis Robert Jr. 28 – 24 0.4 – –
Brett Baty 26 pre-arb 60 0.4 0.8 +2.4
Bo Bichette 28 FA-elig 64 0.3 15.3 -12.5
Luis García↔ MIN 39 – 6 0.2 0.7 +1.1
Joey Gerber 29 pre-arb 2 0.2 0.1 +1.6
Eric Wagaman 28 pre-arb 3 0.2 0.5 +1.1
Jonathan Pintaro 28 pre-arb 2 0.2 0.0 +1.5
Tobias Myers 27 pre-arb 20 0.2 0.8 +0.7
Daniel Duarte 29 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.0 +0.6
Carl Edwards Jr. 34 – 2 0.1 – –
Cionel Pérez↔ WSN 30 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.4
Vidal Bruján 28 arb 7 -0.1 0.8 -1.3
Zach Thornton 24 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.9
Austin Slater↔ MIA 33 FA-elig 9 -0.2 0.1 -1.5
Richard Lovelady↔ WSN 30 – 6 -0.2 0.2 -1.6
Jonah Tong 23 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.5 -2.4
Marcus Semien 35 FA-elig 64 -0.2 26.0 -28.1
Craig Kimbrel↔ TBR 38 – 14 -0.3 0.5 -2.7
Hayden Senger 29 pre-arb 7 -0.3 0.6 -3.5
Kodai Senga 33 arb 5 -0.5 15.0 -19.7
Nick Morabito 23 – 5 -0.5 0.0 -4.8
Andy Ibáñez↔ OAK 33 arb 3 -0.7 0.2 -6.3
Tommy Pham 38 – 9 -0.7 – –
Ronny Mauricio 25 pre-arb 10 -0.7 0.7 -7.1
Jorge Polanco 32 FA-elig 14 -0.8 17.0 -24.3
Tyrone Taylor 32 arb 43 -1.7 3.8 -18.6
Mark Vientos 26 pre-arb 55 -2.2 0.8 -20.0

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 of them (94%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR), annualized to full-season pace. 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 NYM
Sid Fernandez198327.5
Howard Johnson198422.8
David Cone198721.2
Noah Syndergaard201220.1
John Olerud199618.3
Keith Hernandez198316.5
Kevin McReynolds198615.1
Johan Santana200814.3
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Melvin Mora200026.9
Mike Scott198221.9
Nolan Ryan198516.2
A. J. Burnett199816.1
José Oquendo198515.3
Scott Kazmir200415.0
Walt Terrell198413.5
Andrés Giménez202113.3
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.