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GM: Michael Hill (since 2013)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-6.2
WAB — wins above budget
-2.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
62–100 (0.383)
record
+10M
surplus $M (value/$)
18.4
roster fWAR
$36.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Fernández 20 pre-arb 28 4.6 0.5 +11.8
Giancarlo Stanton 23 arb 116 2.9 0.5 +7.2
Henderson Alvarez 23 pre-arb 17 2.5 0.5 +6.3
Christian Yelich 21 – 62 1.8 0.2 +4.6
Ricky Nolasco↔ LAD 30 FA-elig 18 1.7 6.1 -1.6
Marcell Ozuna 22 – 70 1.6 0.2 +4.2
Steve Cishek 27 arb 69 1.4 0.5 +3.4
Justin Ruggiano 31 FA-elig 128 1.4 0.5 +3.2
Ed Lucas 31 – 94 1.2 – –
Nathan Eovaldi 23 pre-arb 18 1.2 0.5 +2.8
Mike Dunn 28 arb 75 0.9 0.5 +1.9
Kevin Slowey 29 FA-elig 20 0.7 0.8 +1.2
AJ Ramos 26 pre-arb 68 0.7 0.5 +1.5
Derek Dietrich 23 – 57 0.7 0.2 +1.7
Dan Jennings 26 pre-arb 47 0.6 0.3 +1.4
Ryan Webb 27 arb 66 0.5 1.0 +0.3
Placido Polanco 37 FA-elig 118 0.5 2.8 -1.5
Chad Qualls 34 FA-elig 66 0.5 1.1 +0.1
Tom Koehler 27 pre-arb 29 0.3 0.4 +0.4
Donovan Solano 25 pre-arb 102 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Wade LeBlanc↔ HOU 28 arb 13 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Jon Rauch 34 FA-elig 15 0.2 1.0 -0.5
Jeff Mathis 30 FA-elig 73 0.1 1.5 -1.2
Jacob Turner 22 pre-arb 20 0.1 1.2 -0.9
Brad Hand 23 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Steve Ames 25 – 4 0.1 – –
Arquimedes Caminero 26 pre-arb 13 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Chris Coghlan 28 arb 70 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Duane Below 27 – 2 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Joe Mahoney 26 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Gil Velazquez 33 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Nick Green 34 – 18 -0.0 – –
Chris Hatcher 28 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Kyle Skipworth 23 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Logan Morrison 25 arb 85 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Zach Phillips 26 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Jordan Brown 29 – 14 -0.1 – –
Austin Kearns 33 FA-elig 19 -0.1 0.7 -0.9
John Maine 32 FA-elig 4 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Jake Marisnick 22 – 40 -0.2 0.2 -0.6
Matt Diaz 35 FA-elig 10 -0.2 1.2 -1.7
Brian Flynn 23 – 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Miguel Olivo 34 FA-elig 33 -0.2 0.8 -1.4
Edgar Olmos 23 – 5 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Sam Dyson 25 pre-arb 5 -0.3 0.1 -0.8
Juan Pierre 35 FA-elig 113 -0.3 1.6 -2.4
Chris Valaika 27 arb 22 -0.4 0.5 -1.6
Greg Dobbs 34 FA-elig 114 -0.5 1.5 -2.8
Casey Kotchman 30 FA-elig 6 -0.5 0.7 -2.1
Alex Sanabia 24 pre-arb 10 -0.7 0.5 -2.5
Koyie Hill 34 arb 18 -1.1 0.1 -3.1
Adeiny Hechavarría 24 pre-arb 148 -1.3 2.8 -6.2
Rob Brantly 23 pre-arb 67 -1.8 0.5 -5.4

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 49 of them (92%). 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.