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GM: Mike Berger (since 2015)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-3.4
WAB — wins above budget
+0.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
71–91 (0.438)
record
+21M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.6
roster fWAR
$67.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Dee Strange-Gordon 27 arb 145 4.8 2.5 +12.6
Giancarlo Stanton 25 arb 74 3.5 6.5 +4.5
Martín Prado 31 FA-elig 129 3.4 11.0 -0.3
Adeiny Hechavarría 26 arb 130 2.6 1.9 +6.2
Christian Yelich 23 pre-arb 126 2.4 0.6 +6.8
José Fernández 22 pre-arb 11 2.3 0.7 +6.6
Mat Latos↔ ANA 27 FA-elig 16 1.8 6.3 -0.6
Marcell Ozuna 24 pre-arb 123 1.5 0.5 +4.1
Carter Capps 24 pre-arb 30 1.4 0.4 +3.9
AJ Ramos 28 arb 71 1.3 0.5 +3.5
Adam Conley 25 – 15 1.2 0.2 +3.6
David Phelps 28 arb 23 1.1 1.4 +2.1
Dan Haren↔ CHC 34 FA-elig 22 1.0 6.7 -3.6
Tom Koehler 29 arb 32 0.8 0.6 +2.0
Miguel Rojas 26 pre-arb 60 0.7 0.3 +1.9
Derek Dietrich 25 pre-arb 90 0.6 0.3 +1.6
Justin Bour 27 pre-arb 129 0.5 0.4 +1.1
Henderson Alvarez 25 arb 4 0.4 4.0 -2.8
Bryan Morris 28 arb 67 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Brad Hand 25 arb 38 0.2 0.5 +0.3
Sam Dyson↔ TEX 27 arb 44 0.2 0.3 +0.5
Steve Cishek↔ STL 29 arb 32 0.2 3.6 -2.8
Mike Dunn 30 FA-elig 72 0.2 2.4 -1.6
Kyle Barraclough 25 – 25 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Kendry Flores 23 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Cole Gillespie 31 pre-arb 67 0.2 0.3 +0.3
J.T. Realmuto 24 pre-arb 126 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Nick Masset↔ ATL 33 – 8 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Brian Ellington 24 – 23 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Vin Mazzaro 28 – 10 0.1 – –
José Ureña 23 – 20 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Chris Reed 25 – 2 0.0 – –
Scott McGough 25 – 6 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Don Kelly 35 FA-elig 2 -0.0 1.2 -1.3
Raudel Lazo 26 pre-arb 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Erik Cordier 29 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Jordany Valdespin 27 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Jeff Mathis 32 FA-elig 32 -0.1 1.5 -1.8
Reid Brignac 29 – 17 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Justin Nicolino 23 – 13 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Jeff Baker 34 FA-elig 41 -0.2 2.1 -2.6
André Rienzo 26 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Chris Narveson 33 arb 15 -0.3 0.2 -1.1
Jhonatan Solano 29 pre-arb 7 -0.4 0.1 -1.3
Jarred Cosart 25 pre-arb 15 -0.4 0.5 -1.8
Jarrod Saltalamacchia↔ ARI 30 – 9 -0.4 0.8 -2.0
Tomás Telis↔ TEX 24 pre-arb 17 -0.5 0.1 -1.8
Casey McGehee↔ SFG 32 FA-elig 60 -0.7 2.6 -4.9
Michael Morse↔ PIT 33 – 53 -0.8 – –
Ichiro Suzuki 41 FA-elig 153 -0.8 3.2 -5.6
Donovan Solano 27 arb 55 -0.8 0.5 -3.2

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 of them (94%). 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.