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GM: Kenny Williams (since 2001)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.7
WAB — wins above budget
+0.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record
-24M
surplus $M (value/$)
37.0
roster fWAR
$119.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chris Sale 23 pre-arb 30 4.6 0.5 +11.5
Jake Peavy 31 FA-elig 32 4.2 17.0 -6.2
Alex Rios 31 FA-elig 157 4.0 12.0 -1.7
A.J. Pierzynski 35 FA-elig 135 3.7 6.0 +3.5
Alejandro De Aza 28 arb 131 2.5 0.5 +6.0
Paul Konerko 36 FA-elig 144 2.1 12.0 -6.6
Adam Dunn 32 FA-elig 151 2.1 14.0 -8.6
Alexei Ramirez 30 arb 158 2.0 5.0 +0.1
Gavin Floyd 29 FA-elig 29 1.9 7.0 -2.2
Tyler Flowers 26 arb 52 1.7 0.5 +3.9
Kevin Youkilis↔ BOS 33 FA-elig 80 1.6 8.0 -3.8
Jose Quintana 23 – 25 1.6 0.3 +3.8
Matt Thornton 35 FA-elig 74 1.2 5.5 -2.3
Gordon Beckham 25 arb 151 1.0 0.5 +2.1
Nate Jones 26 – 65 1.0 0.5 +2.0
Jesse Crain 30 FA-elig 51 0.8 4.5 -2.4
Addison Reed 23 pre-arb 62 0.8 0.5 +1.6
Dayan Viciedo 23 pre-arb 147 0.8 2.5 -0.5
Dan Johnson 32 arb 14 0.7 0.2 +1.5
Dewayne Wise↔ NYY 34 arb 45 0.5 0.1 +1.4
Francisco Liriano↔ MIN 28 FA-elig 12 0.5 1.9 -0.6
Donnie Veal 27 pre-arb 24 0.5 0.5 +0.8
John Danks 27 arb 9 0.2 2.0 -1.4
Hector Gimenez 29 – 5 0.1 – –
Brett Myers↔ HOU 31 FA-elig 35 0.1 5.5 -5.1
Eric Stults↔ SDP 32 – 2 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Dylan Axelrod 26 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Brian Bruney 30 arb 1 0.0 0.9 -0.8
Brian Omogrosso 28 pre-arb 17 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Jhan Mariñez 23 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Héctor Santiago 24 pre-arb 42 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Eduardo Escobar↔ MIN 23 pre-arb 36 -0.0 0.3 -0.4
Deunte Heath 26 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Jordan Danks 25 – 50 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Leyson Septimo 26 – 21 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Jose Lopez↔ CLE 28 FA-elig 15 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Ray Olmedo 31 – 20 -0.2 – –
Pedro Hernandez 23 – 1 -0.2 – –
Brent Lillibridge↔ BOS 28 arb 49 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Kosuke Fukudome 35 arb 24 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Orlando Hudson↔ SDP 34 FA-elig 51 -0.2 3.3 -3.9
Philip Humber 29 FA-elig 26 -0.4 0.5 -1.4
Will Ohman 34 FA-elig 32 -0.4 2.5 -3.5
Zach Stewart↔ BOS 25 pre-arb 18 -0.5 0.4 -1.8
Brent Morel 25 pre-arb 35 -0.7 0.5 -2.4

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 of them (93%). 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 CHW
Paul Konerko199824.5
Carlton Fisk198518.3
John Danks200617.4
José Valentín200017.3
Lance Johnson198817.3
Jon Garland199817.2
Gavin Floyd200615.3
Tim Raines199014.5
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Sammy Sosa199260.7
Fernando Tatís201627.7
Bobby Bonilla198620.6
Brian Downing197716.9
Chris Young200514.5
Nick Swisher200814.4
Chet Lemon198114.2
José DeLeón198811.7
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.