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GM: Jed Hoyer (since 2012)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-18.6
WAB — wins above budget
-16.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
61–101 (0.377)
record
-38M
surplus $M (value/$)
15.6
roster fWAR
$83.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Alfonso Soriano 36 FA-elig 151 3.2 18.0 -9.8
Starlin Castro 22 pre-arb 162 3.1 0.6 +7.5
Jeff Samardzija 27 arb 31 2.6 2.6 +4.0
Darwin Barney 26 pre-arb 156 1.9 0.5 +4.3
David DeJesus 32 FA-elig 148 1.8 4.2 +0.5
Ryan Dempster↔ TEX 35 FA-elig 16 1.7 8.0 -3.7
Anthony Rizzo 22 pre-arb 87 1.6 0.5 +3.6
Luis Valbuena 26 arb 90 1.1 0.5 +2.3
Geovany Soto↔ TEX 29 FA-elig 52 1.1 2.3 +0.5
Paul Maholm↔ ATL 30 FA-elig 21 1.0 3.1 -0.5
Reed Johnson↔ ATL 35 FA-elig 76 0.8 0.7 +1.3
Dave Sappelt 25 pre-arb 26 0.7 0.5 +1.4
Matt Garza 28 FA-elig 18 0.7 9.5 -7.7
Welington Castillo 25 pre-arb 52 0.7 0.5 +1.3
Tony Campana 26 pre-arb 89 0.7 0.5 +1.3
Travis Wood 25 pre-arb 28 0.7 0.5 +1.2
James Russell 26 pre-arb 77 0.7 0.5 +1.2
Bryan LaHair 29 arb 130 0.6 0.5 +1.0
Shawn Camp 36 FA-elig 80 0.4 0.6 +0.5
Justin Germano↔ BOS 29 – 13 0.3 – –
Brett Jackson 23 pre-arb 44 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Chris Rusin 25 – 7 0.2 0.1 +0.3
Carlos Marmol 29 FA-elig 61 0.1 7.0 -6.7
Anthony Recker↔ OAK 28 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Jaye Chapman 25 – 14 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Alberto Cabrera 23 pre-arb 25 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Jeff Baker↔ ATL 31 FA-elig 54 -0.0 0.9 -0.9
Scott Maine↔ CLE 27 – 21 -0.0 0.3 -0.4
Michael Bowden↔ BOS 25 arb 30 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Miguel Socolovich↔ BAL 25 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.2 -0.4
Rodrigo Lopez 36 – 4 -0.0 – –
Jason Berken↔ BAL 28 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Chris Volstad 25 arb 21 -0.1 2.7 -2.9
Jairo Asencio↔ CLE 29 arb 12 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Ian Stewart 27 arb 55 -0.2 2.2 -2.7
Randy Wells 29 arb 12 -0.2 2.7 -3.2
Lendy Castillo 23 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Blake Parker 27 – 7 -0.3 0.4 -1.0
Casey Coleman 24 pre-arb 17 -0.3 0.5 -1.3
Kerry Wood 35 FA-elig 10 -0.3 3.0 -3.8
Adrian Cardenas 24 – 45 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Blake DeWitt 26 arb 18 -0.4 1.1 -2.0
Jeff Beliveau 25 – 22 -0.4 0.5 -1.5
Brooks Raley 24 – 5 -0.4 0.5 -1.6
Koyie Hill 33 – 11 -0.4 – –
Blake Lalli 29 – 6 -0.5 – –
Steve Clevenger 26 pre-arb 69 -0.5 0.5 -1.9
Manny Corpas 29 – 48 -0.6 – –
Alex Hinshaw↔ SDP 29 – 2 -0.6 – –
Rafael Dolis 24 pre-arb 34 -0.7 0.5 -2.4
Marlon Byrd↔ BOS 34 FA-elig 13 -0.9 1.8 -4.1
Joe Mather 29 arb 103 -1.2 0.5 -3.5
Josh Vitters 22 pre-arb 36 -1.4 0.5 -4.1

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 of them (89%). 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 CHC
Sammy Sosa199260.7
Ryne Sandberg198248.2
Anthony Rizzo201231.1
Aramis Ramírez200325.0
Kyle Hendricks201224.4
Derrek Lee200321.4
Jake Arrieta201319.6
Rick Sutcliffe198417.2
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Rafael Palmeiro198842.3
Dontrelle Willis200220.7
Dennis Eckersley198719.3
Ricky Nolasco200517.5
Jon Garland199817.2
Chris Archer201116.9
Gleyber Torres201615.9
Josh Donaldson200813.8
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.