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GM: Daniel O'Dowd (since 2000)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-14.7
WAB — wins above budget
-10.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
64–98 (0.395)
record
-20M
surplus $M (value/$)
21.0
roster fWAR
$77.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Dexter Fowler 26 arb 143 3.0 2.4 +5.4
Carlos González 26 arb 135 2.7 5.0 +2.0
Tyler Colvin 26 arb 136 2.2 0.5 +5.1
Matt Belisle 32 FA-elig 80 1.8 3.8 +0.7
Eric Young Jr. 27 arb 98 1.5 0.5 +3.3
Jeff Francis 31 FA-elig 24 1.4 0.3 +3.3
Rafael Betancourt 37 FA-elig 60 1.3 4.0 -0.6
Troy Tulowitzki 27 FA-elig 47 1.3 8.2 -4.8
Drew Pomeranz 23 pre-arb 22 1.1 0.3 +2.6
Rex Brothers 24 pre-arb 75 1.1 0.5 +2.2
Juan Nicasio 25 pre-arb 11 0.9 0.5 +1.8
Christian Friedrich 24 – 17 0.7 0.5 +1.4
Michael Cuddyer 33 FA-elig 101 0.7 10.5 -8.7
Wilin Rosario 23 pre-arb 117 0.7 0.5 +1.3
Jhoulys Chacín 24 arb 14 0.7 0.5 +1.3
Josh Rutledge 23 arb 73 0.6 0.5 +1.0
Charlie Blackmon 25 pre-arb 42 0.6 0.5 +1.0
Carlos Torres 29 pre-arb 32 0.5 0.5 +0.9
Adam Ottavino 26 pre-arb 53 0.5 0.5 +0.8
Alex White 23 pre-arb 28 0.4 0.5 +0.6
DJ LeMahieu 23 pre-arb 81 0.4 0.5 +0.5
Marco Scutaro↔ SFG 36 FA-elig 95 0.4 3.7 -2.7
Tyler Chatwood 22 pre-arb 23 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Chris Nelson 26 pre-arb 111 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Guillermo Moscoso 28 pre-arb 23 0.2 0.5 -0.0
Mike Ekstrom 28 – 15 0.2 – –
Andrew Brown 27 pre-arb 46 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Rob Scahill 25 – 6 0.1 – –
Esmil Rogers↔ CLE 26 arb 23 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Rafael Ortega 21 – 2 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Jonathan Herrera 27 arb 86 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Josh Outman 27 arb 28 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Jamie Moyer 49 FA-elig 10 0.1 1.1 -0.9
Will Harris 27 – 20 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Todd Helton 38 FA-elig 69 0.0 4.9 -4.8
Zach Putnam 24 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Tommy Field 25 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Edgmer Escalona 25 pre-arb 22 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Jordan Pacheco 26 pre-arb 132 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Matt Reynolds 27 pre-arb 71 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Wil Nieves↔ ARI 34 – 16 -0.2 0.2 -0.6
Josh Roenicke 29 arb 63 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Jonathan Sánchez↔ KCR 29 FA-elig 3 -0.2 1.1 -1.6
Jorge De La Rosa 31 FA-elig 3 -0.2 10.0 -10.6
Jason Giambi 41 FA-elig 60 -0.3 1.0 -1.7
Edwar Cabrera 24 – 2 -0.3 – –
Matt McBride 27 – 31 -1.0 – –
Jeremy Guthrie↔ KCR 33 FA-elig 24 -1.1 5.2 -7.9
Ramon Hernandez 36 FA-elig 52 -1.2 3.2 -6.4

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 of them (92%). 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 COL
Carlos González200824.7
Germán Márquez201619.1
Jorge De La Rosa200813.1
DJ LeMahieu201113.1
Pedro Astacio19978.3
Brian Fuentes20017.7
Rafael Betancourt20095.9
Tyler Chatwood20115.8
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Chone Figgins200122.2
Nolan Arenado202118.3
Andy Ashby199317.7
Mark Canha201410.3
Darryl Kile19999.7
Juan Pierre20029.4
Everth Cabrera20084.5
Ubaldo Jiménez20114.4
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.