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GM: Michael Hill (since 2008)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.5
WAB — wins above budget
-0.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
72–90 (0.444)
record
+6M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.1
roster fWAR
$67.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Giancarlo Stanton 21 pre-arb 150 4.3 0.4 +10.0
Aníbal Sánchez 27 arb 32 3.6 3.7 +5.2
Javier Vazquez 34 FA-elig 36 3.5 7.0 +1.5
Ricky Nolasco 28 arb 33 3.0 6.0 +1.4
Emilio Bonifácio 26 arb 152 2.9 0.4 +6.7
Gaby Sanchez 27 arb 159 2.7 0.4 +6.1
Omar Infante 29 FA-elig 148 2.2 2.5 +2.9
Josh Johnson 27 FA-elig 9 1.8 7.8 -3.5
Bryan Petersen 25 pre-arb 74 1.5 0.4 +3.2
Mike Cameron↔ BOS 38 FA-elig 45 1.2 4.5 -1.6
Chris Volstad 24 arb 29 1.1 0.4 +2.2
Steve Cishek 25 pre-arb 45 1.0 0.4 +1.9
Hanley Ramirez 27 FA-elig 92 0.9 11.0 -8.8
Burke Badenhop 28 arb 50 0.9 0.8 +1.5
Edward Mujica 27 arb 67 0.8 0.8 +1.2
Logan Morrison 23 pre-arb 123 0.8 0.4 +1.5
Ryan Webb 25 pre-arb 53 0.2 0.4 +0.2
John Buck 30 FA-elig 140 0.2 5.0 -4.5
Dewayne Wise↔ TOR 33 – 49 0.2 – –
Juan Carlos Oviedo 29 FA-elig 68 0.2 3.6 -3.2
Jose Ceda 24 pre-arb 17 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Donnie Murphy 28 FA-elig 36 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Alex Sanabia 22 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Scott Cousins 26 pre-arb 48 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Sandy Rosario 25 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Randy Choate 35 FA-elig 54 -0.0 1.0 -1.0
Vinny Rottino 31 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Jose Lopez↔ COL 27 FA-elig 44 -0.0 1.9 -2.0
Greg Dobbs 32 FA-elig 134 -0.1 0.6 -0.7
Chris Hatcher 26 pre-arb 12 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Joe Thurston 31 – 1 -0.1 – –
Jay Buente↔ TBR 27 – 1 -0.1 – –
Mike Dunn 26 pre-arb 72 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
John Baker 30 arb 16 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Brett Hayes 27 pre-arb 64 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Clay Hensley 31 FA-elig 37 -0.1 1.4 -1.7
Brian Sanches 32 arb 39 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Elih Villanueva 24 – 1 -0.2 – –
Matt Dominguez 21 pre-arb 17 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
Ozzie Martínez 23 – 20 -0.4 – –
Alfredo Amezaga↔ COL 33 – 20 -0.5 – –
Chris Coghlan 26 pre-arb 65 -0.5 0.5 -1.6
Brad Hand 21 – 12 -0.5 0.1 -1.3
Wes Helms 35 FA-elig 69 -0.9 1.0 -3.2

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (86%). 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.