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GM: Michael Hill (since 2008)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-14.8
WAB — wins above budget
-11.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
69–93 (0.426)
record
-52M
surplus $M (value/$)
24.1
roster fWAR
$114.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Giancarlo Stanton 22 pre-arb 123 5.1 0.5 +12.5
José Reyes 29 FA-elig 160 3.8 10.0 -0.2
Josh Johnson 28 FA-elig 31 3.1 13.8 -5.7
Ricky Nolasco 29 FA-elig 31 2.6 9.0 -2.3
Justin Ruggiano 30 pre-arb 91 2.5 0.5 +6.0
Aníbal Sánchez↔ DET 28 FA-elig 19 2.1 4.9 +0.5
Omar Infante↔ DET 30 FA-elig 85 2.1 2.3 +3.0
Hanley Ramirez↔ LAD 28 FA-elig 93 1.4 8.9 -5.3
Donovan Solano 24 – 93 1.3 0.5 +2.7
Mark Buehrle 33 FA-elig 31 1.0 6.0 -3.4
Steve Cishek 26 pre-arb 68 0.8 0.5 +1.6
Carlos Zambrano 31 FA-elig 35 0.7 18.0 -16.1
Ryan Webb 26 arb 65 0.7 0.5 +1.3
Randy Choate↔ LAD 36 FA-elig 44 0.7 0.8 +0.9
Wade LeBlanc 27 pre-arb 25 0.6 0.5 +1.0
Emilio Bonifácio 27 arb 64 0.5 2.2 -0.8
Austin Kearns 32 FA-elig 87 0.5 0.6 +0.7
Nathan Eovaldi↔ LAD 22 pre-arb 12 0.5 0.3 +1.0
Rob Brantly 22 – 31 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Heath Bell 34 FA-elig 73 0.4 6.0 -5.1
Jacob Turner↔ DET 21 pre-arb 7 0.3 0.8 +0.0
John Buck 31 FA-elig 106 0.2 6.0 -5.5
Mike Dunn 27 arb 60 0.2 0.5 -0.0
Chad Gaudin 29 FA-elig 46 0.1 0.6 -0.4
Sandy Rosario 26 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Adam Greenberg 31 – 1 -0.0 – –
Logan Morrison 24 pre-arb 93 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Gorkys Hernández↔ PIT 24 – 45 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
AJ Ramos 25 – 11 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Kevin Mattison 26 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Nick Green 33 arb 7 -0.1 0.9 -1.2
Donnie Murphy 29 FA-elig 52 -0.1 0.6 -0.9
Tom Koehler 26 – 8 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Gil Velazquez 32 – 19 -0.2 – –
Brad Hand 22 pre-arb 1 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
Chris Hatcher 27 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Edward Mujica↔ STL 28 FA-elig 41 -0.2 1.0 -1.6
Dan Jennings 25 – 22 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Gaby Sanchez↔ PIT 28 arb 55 -0.4 0.3 -1.4
Carlos Lee↔ HOU 36 FA-elig 81 -0.4 10.3 -11.5
Scott Cousins 27 pre-arb 53 -0.6 0.5 -2.0
Greg Dobbs 33 FA-elig 120 -0.7 1.5 -3.4
Bryan Petersen 26 pre-arb 84 -0.9 0.5 -2.8
Brett Hayes 28 arb 39 -1.1 0.5 -3.3
Chris Coghlan 27 arb 39 -1.4 0.5 -4.1

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 43 of them (96%). 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.