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GM: Tom Haller

Overview

REBUILD → steady
cheap & losing · year 1 in this regime · payroll 0.73× league · TAB -8.3
-8.3TAB — talent above budget20th/26
-15.9WAB — realized wins (TAB + luck)22nd/26
6.0depth — 2+ WAR regulars19th/26
-6.4dead WAR — sub-replacement drag24th/26
46%dead money %24th/26
0.383win %24th/26
22.1roster fWAR22nd/26
-2surplus $M (value vs cost)15th/26
$7Mpayroll $M23rd/26

Roster

CFDan Gladden 111GChili Davis 35GJoel Youngblood 17G
LFJeffrey Leonard 125GRob Deer 21GDan Gladden 14G
RFChili Davis 91GJoel Youngblood 34GRon Roenicke 20G
SSJose Uribe 145GRicky Adams 25GBrad Wellman 3G
2BManny Trillo 120GBrad Wellman 36GMike Woodard 23G
3BChris Brown 120GBrad Wellman 25GRicky Adams 17G
1BDan Driessen 137GDavid Green 79GGary Rajsich 23G
STARTERSMike Krukow 4.1WARDave LaPoint 2.7WARJim Gott 2.5WARAtlee Hammaker 1.8WARRoger Mason 0.8WAR
CBob Brenly 110GAlex Trevino 55GMatt Nokes 14G
BULLPEN★ Scott Garrelts 13svMark Davis 0hGreg Minton 0hFrank Williams 0hMike Jeffcoat 0hBobby Moore 0hJeff Robinson 0hColin Ward 0h
CBob Brenly 110 · Alex Trevino 55 · Matt Nokes 14
1BDan Driessen 137 · David Green 79 · Gary Rajsich 23
2BManny Trillo 120 · Brad Wellman 36 · Mike Woodard 23
3BChris Brown 120 · Brad Wellman 25 · Ricky Adams 17
SSJose Uribe 145 · Ricky Adams 25 · Brad Wellman 3
LFJeffrey Leonard 125 · Rob Deer 21 · Dan Gladden 14
CFDan Gladden 111 · Chili Davis 35 · Joel Youngblood 17
RFChili Davis 91 · Joel Youngblood 34 · Ron Roenicke 20
SPMike Krukow 4.1 · Dave LaPoint 2.7 · Jim Gott 2.5 · Atlee Hammaker 1.8 · Roger Mason 0.8
BP★ Scott Garrelts 13 · Mark Davis 0 · Greg Minton 0 · Frank Williams 0 · Mike Jeffcoat 0 · Bobby Moore 0 · Jeff Robinson 0 · Colin Ward 0

Each position lists its starter then backups by games (so platoons & bench show). Starters (mound) & bullpen (left, foul territory) are ranked by WAR; ★ marks the closer (most save chances). MLB Stats API.

1985 roster — value & surplus

PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Krukow 33 FA-elig 284.1 0.6 +0.4
Chris Brown 23 pre-arb 1313.0 0.1 +0.7
Chili Davis 25 arb 1362.9 0.6 +0.2
Dave LaPoint 25 – 312.7 – –
Jim Gott 25 arb 262.5 0.2 +0.5
Scott Garrelts 23 arb 742.2 0.1 +0.5
Atlee Hammaker 27 arb 291.8 0.4 +0.1
Mark Davis 24 arb 771.6 0.2 +0.2
Ron Roenicke 28 – 651.3 – –
Bill Laskey↔ WSN 27 arb 190.9 0.2 +0.0
Joel Youngblood 33 FA-elig 950.9 0.4 -0.1
Bob Brenly 31 arb 1330.9 0.4 -0.2
Manny Trillo 34 FA-elig 1250.8 0.7 -0.5
Roger Mason 26 – 50.8 – –
Dan Gladden 27 pre-arb 1420.7 0.1 +0.0
Jose Uribe 26 – 1470.5 – –
Alex Trevino 27 FA-elig 570.4 0.5 -0.4
Duane Kuiper 35 – 90.2 – –
Colin Ward 24 – 60.2 – –
Vida Blue 35 FA-elig 330.1 0.2 -0.2
Rob Deer 24 – 780.0 – –
Frank Williams 27 – 490.0 – –
Bobby Moore 26 – 11-0.1 – –
Ricky Adams 26 – 54-0.1 – –
Jeff Robinson 24 – 8-0.2 – –
Matt Nokes 21 – 19-0.3 – –
Mike Jeffcoat↔ CLE 25 – 19-0.3 – –
David Green 24 arb 106-0.3 0.3 -0.4
Mike Woodard 25 – 24-0.4 – –
Gary Rajsich 30 – 51-0.5 – –
Johnnie LeMaster↔ CLE 31 FA-elig 12-0.6 0.1 -0.3
Scot Thompson↔ WSN 29 FA-elig 64-0.7 0.1 -0.3
Dan Driessen↔ WSN 33 FA-elig 54-0.7 0.3 -0.5
Jeffrey Leonard 29 FA-elig 133-0.7 0.9 -1.1
Greg Minton 33 FA-elig 68-0.7 0.9 -1.1
Brad Wellman 25 – 71-0.9 – –

Key additions (new vs 1984)

PlayerfWAR
Mike Krukow4.1
Chris Brown3.0
Chili Davis2.9
Dave LaPoint2.7
Jim Gott2.5
Scott Garrelts2.2

Key subtractions (gone from 1984)

Player1984 fWAR
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Current & Historical Payroll

1985 payroll
$7.2M

What the front office was committed to as of 1985, 1985–1991. Pre-2015 has no contract-terms data — forward italic $ are realized actuals (hindsight, not commitments known then). Control labels (ARB/FA) are point-in-time.

current $ guaranteed $ actual $ (hindsight) arbitration (proj) pre-arb (proj) free agent

Guaranteed / signed (10)

PlayerAgeSvc1985198619871988198919901991
Jeffrey Leonard298.000$900k$900k$975k$613kFREE AGENT
Greg Minton3310.000$865k$765k$549kFREE AGENT
Manny Trillo3412.000$710kFREE AGENT
Mike Krukow339.000$630k$745k$648k$900k$875kFREE AGENT
Alex Trevino277.000$462kFREE AGENT
Joel Youngblood339.000$375k$450k$450k$320kFREE AGENT
Dan Driessen3312.000$286k$372kFREE AGENT
Vida Blue3516.000$250k$450kFREE AGENT
Johnnie LeMaster3110.000$133kFREE AGENT
Scot Thompson297.000$129kFREE AGENT

Arbitration-eligible (11)

PlayerAgeSvc1985198619871988198919901991
Chili Davis254.000$550kARB 3FREE AGENT
Bob Brenly314.000$385kARB 3FREE AGENT
Atlee Hammaker274.000$355kARB 3FREE AGENT
David Green244.000$275kARB 3FREE AGENT
Bill Laskey273.000$225kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Mark Davis245.000$195kFREE AGENT
Jim Gott253.000$170kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Scott Garrelts233.000$85kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Dave LaPoint255.000—FREE AGENT
Ron Roenicke284.000—ARB 3FREE AGENT
Brad Wellman253.000—ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT

Pre-arbitration (15)

PlayerAgeSvc1985198619871988198919901991
Dan Gladden272.000$135kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Chris Brown231.000$60kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Ricky Adams26–—
Rob Deer241.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Mike Jeffcoat252.000—ARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Duane Kuiper35–—
Roger Mason261.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Bobby Moore26–—
Matt Nokes210.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Gary Rajsich30–—
Jeff Robinson241.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jose Uribe261.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Colin Ward24–—
Frank Williams271.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Mike Woodard25–—

Graphs

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR. Bars = Giants 1985; the black line = the league-average player at each slot that season. Staying above the line deep into the roster is the depth edge; dropping below it = holes & dead weight.

What each regime is worth — every settled team-season since 1985

RegimeSeasonsWin %Playoff %Pennant %WS %
WINDOW 28152.131.05.01.1
CONTEND 30056.964.719.710.3
FORCED-SPEND 25648.09.81.61.6
REBUILD 32143.31.20.30.3
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.