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GM: Michael Hill (since 2008)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+15.6
WAB — wins above budget
+9.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
87–75 (0.537)
record
+32M
surplus $M (value/$)
33.7
roster fWAR
$40.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Hanley Ramirez 25 arb 151 7.1 5.5 +11.2
Josh Johnson 25 arb 34 6.2 1.4 +13.3
Ricky Nolasco 26 arb 31 4.0 2.4 +7.1
Chris Coghlan 24 – 128 2.7 – –
Dan Uggla 29 arb 158 2.6 5.3 +0.7
Cody Ross 28 FA-elig 151 1.6 2.2 +1.6
Kiko Calero 34 FA-elig 67 1.5 0.5 +3.0
Ronny Paulino 28 arb 80 1.4 0.4 +2.9
Brett Carroll 26 pre-arb 92 1.3 0.4 +2.7
John Baker 28 pre-arb 112 1.0 0.4 +2.1
Cameron Maybin 22 pre-arb 54 0.9 0.4 +1.9
Jorge Cantu 27 arb 149 0.9 3.5 -1.4
Sean West 23 – 20 0.7 – –
Burke Badenhop 26 pre-arb 35 0.7 0.4 +1.3
Nick Johnson↔ WSN 30 FA-elig 35 0.6 1.4 -0.1
Brendan Donnelly 37 – 30 0.5 – –
Andrew Miller 24 arb 20 0.5 2.5 -1.3
Ross Gload 33 FA-elig 125 0.5 1.9 -0.8
Aníbal Sánchez 25 arb 16 0.5 0.4 +0.7
Dan Meyer 27 arb 71 0.5 0.4 +0.7
Alejandro De Aza 25 pre-arb 22 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Wes Helms 33 FA-elig 113 0.2 0.9 -0.5
Brian Sanches 30 arb 47 0.2 0.4 +0.0
Cristhian Martinez 27 – 15 0.2 – –
Brett Hayes 25 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Gaby Sanchez 25 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Tim Wood 26 pre-arb 18 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Renyel Pinto 26 arb 73 0.1 0.4 -0.3
David Davidson 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Chris Leroux 25 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Jeremy Hermida 25 arb 129 -0.0 2.2 -2.3
Matt Lindstrom 29 pre-arb 54 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Logan Kensing↔ WSN 26 arb 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Hayden Penn 24 arb 16 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Graham Taylor 25 – 3 -0.1 – –
Andy González 27 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Carlos Martinez 27 – 2 -0.2 – –
Rick Van Den Hurk 24 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Luis Ayala↔ MIN 31 FA-elig 10 -0.2 0.3 -0.7
Alfredo Amezaga 31 FA-elig 27 -0.2 1.3 -1.8
Chris Volstad 22 pre-arb 30 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
John Koronka 28 – 2 -0.5 – –
Emilio Bonifácio 24 pre-arb 127 -0.5 0.4 -1.6
Juan Carlos Oviedo 27 arb 75 -0.8 0.4 -2.3

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (82%). 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.