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GM: Dayton Moore (since 2007)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-3.5
WAB — wins above budget
-0.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
72–90 (0.444)
record
+10M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.6
roster fWAR
$60.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Alex Gordon 28 arb 161 5.0 6.0 +6.7
Mike Moustakas 23 pre-arb 149 3.2 0.5 +7.7
Billy Butler 26 arb 161 2.6 8.0 -1.2
Alcides Escobar 25 arb 155 2.6 1.0 +5.6
Greg Holland 26 pre-arb 67 2.3 0.5 +5.3
Kelvin Herrera 22 pre-arb 76 1.8 0.5 +4.2
Jeremy Guthrie↔ COL 33 FA-elig 14 1.7 3.0 +1.3
Bruce Chen 35 FA-elig 35 1.7 4.5 -0.2
Luis Mendoza 28 arb 30 1.6 0.5 +3.7
Jarrod Dyson 27 pre-arb 102 1.4 0.5 +3.2
Luke Hochevar 28 arb 32 1.4 3.5 +0.2
Lorenzo Cain 26 pre-arb 61 1.4 0.5 +3.0
Salvador Perez 22 pre-arb 76 1.1 0.8 +2.2
Aaron Crow 25 pre-arb 73 1.1 1.0 +1.9
Felipe Paulino 28 arb 7 0.9 1.9 +0.3
Tim Collins 22 pre-arb 72 0.8 0.5 +1.5
Will Smith 22 – 16 0.7 0.5 +1.3
Chris Getz 28 arb 64 0.6 1.0 +0.5
Jose Mijares↔ SFG 27 arb 51 0.5 0.6 +0.8
Danny Duffy 23 pre-arb 6 0.5 0.5 +0.8
Jonathan Broxton↔ CIN 28 FA-elig 35 0.5 2.3 -1.0
Irving Falu 29 pre-arb 24 0.5 0.5 +0.7
Vin Mazzaro 25 pre-arb 18 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Francisley Bueno 31 – 18 0.3 – –
Roman Colon 32 – 3 0.0 – –
Jeremy Jeffress 24 pre-arb 13 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Jake Odorizzi 22 – 2 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Louis Coleman 26 pre-arb 42 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Nate Adcock 24 – 12 -0.0 – –
Manny Piña 25 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Adam Moore 28 – 4 -0.1 – –
Tony Abreu 27 pre-arb 22 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Ryan Verdugo 25 – 1 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Clint Robinson 27 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Tommy Hottovy 30 – 9 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
David Lough 26 – 20 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Mitch Maier 30 FA-elig 32 -0.3 0.9 -1.6
Humberto Quintero 32 FA-elig 43 -0.3 1.0 -1.8
Everett Teaford 28 pre-arb 18 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Jason Bourgeois 30 arb 30 -0.4 0.5 -1.4
Brayan Peña 30 FA-elig 68 -0.4 0.9 -1.9
Jonathan Sánchez↔ COL 29 FA-elig 12 -0.5 4.5 -5.9
Johnny Giavotella 24 pre-arb 53 -0.6 0.5 -2.1
Yuniesky Betancourt 30 FA-elig 57 -0.9 2.0 -4.3
Jeff Francoeur 28 FA-elig 148 -1.1 6.0 -8.8
Eric Hosmer 22 pre-arb 152 -1.4 0.5 -4.0

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 of them (91%). 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 KCR
Charlie Leibrandt198316.8
Danny Tartabull198613.9
Joe Randa199812.8
Jeff Montgomery198812.0
Joakim Soria20069.8
José Offerman19958.1
Brad Keller20177.9
Chris Haney19926.9
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Mark Ellis200122.1
David Cone198721.2
Jorge De La Rosa200813.1
Sean Manaea201511.2
Rance Mulliniks198211.1
Bret Saberhagen199110.8
Charlie Leibrandt19899.9
Jon Lieber19939.8
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.