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GM: Michael Hill (since 2008)

2008 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+19.3
WAB — wins above budget
+15.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
84–77 (0.522)
record
+40M
surplus $M (value/$)
33.8
roster fWAR
$23.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Hanley Ramirez 24 arb 153 7.4 0.4 +16.4
Dan Uggla 28 pre-arb 146 4.2 0.4 +9.0
Ricky Nolasco 25 pre-arb 34 4.2 0.4 +9.0
Cody Ross 27 arb 145 3.5 0.4 +7.6
Jorge Cantu 26 arb 155 2.6 0.5 +5.4
Josh Willingham 29 arb 102 2.6 0.4 +5.5
Josh Johnson 24 arb 14 2.0 0.4 +4.1
John Baker 27 – 61 1.7 – –
Andrew Miller 23 pre-arb 29 1.6 2.2 +1.3
Chris Volstad 21 – 15 1.4 – –
Mark Hendrickson 34 FA-elig 37 1.4 1.5 +1.6
Alfredo Amezaga 30 FA-elig 125 1.2 0.9 +1.7
Scott Olsen 24 arb 34 1.1 0.4 +2.0
Cameron Maybin 21 – 8 1.0 – –
Joe Nelson 33 – 59 0.9 – –
Matt Lindstrom 28 pre-arb 66 0.9 0.4 +1.6
Kevin Gregg 30 arb 72 0.9 2.5 -0.6
Arthur Rhodes↔ SEA 38 – 25 0.6 – –
Justin Miller 30 FA-elig 46 0.4 0.8 +0.2
Doug Waechter 27 – 48 0.4 – –
Rick Van Den Hurk 23 pre-arb 4 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Logan Kensing 25 arb 48 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Aníbal Sánchez 24 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Robert Andino 24 arb 44 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Gaby Sanchez 24 – 5 0.1 – –
Wes Helms 32 – 132 0.0 – –
Dallas McPherson 27 – 11 0.0 – –
Burke Badenhop 25 – 13 -0.0 – –
Jason Wood 38 FA-elig 3 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Jai Miller 23 – 1 -0.0 – –
Paul Lo Duca↔ WSN 36 FA-elig 21 -0.0 1.6 -1.6
Brett Carroll 25 pre-arb 26 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Jesus Delgado 24 – 2 -0.1 – –
Jeremy Hermida 24 arb 142 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
Lee Gardner 33 FA-elig 7 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Frankie De La Cruz 24 – 6 -0.3 – –
Jacque Jones↔ DET 33 FA-elig 18 -0.3 2.7 -3.4
Renyel Pinto 25 pre-arb 67 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
Ryan Tucker 21 – 13 -0.4 – –
Paul Hoover 32 FA-elig 13 -0.5 0.4 -1.5
Taylor Tankersley 25 pre-arb 25 -0.6 0.4 -1.7
Luis Gonzalez 40 FA-elig 136 -0.8 2.0 -3.7
Matt Treanor 32 arb 65 -0.9 0.7 -2.7
Mike Jacobs 27 arb 141 -1.0 0.4 -2.7
Mike Rabelo 28 pre-arb 34 -1.3 0.4 -3.3

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 31 of them (69%). 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 MIA
Hanley Ramírez200529.1
Dontrelle Willis200220.7
Ricky Nolasco200517.5
A. J. Burnett199816.1
Gary Sheffield199313.6
Cliff Floyd199713.2
Derrek Lee199710.6
Aníbal Sánchez20059.9
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Johan Santana199932.0
Christian Yelich201828.6
J. T. Realmuto201925.7
Trevor Hoffman199324.3
Derrek Lee200321.4
Josh Beckett200520.1
Édgar Rentería199817.4
Gary Sheffield199814.7
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.