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GM: Michael Hill (since 2016)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.1
WAB — wins above budget
+8.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
79–82 (0.491)
record
+42M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.1
roster fWAR
$75.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
José Fernández 23 arb 30 6.8 2.8 +19.3
Christian Yelich 24 arb 155 5.3 1.0 +16.2
Martín Prado 32 FA-elig 153 3.2 11.0 -0.7
Marcell Ozuna 25 arb 148 2.5 0.6 +7.4
J.T. Realmuto 25 pre-arb 137 2.3 0.5 +7.0
Derek Dietrich 26 arb 128 2.2 0.5 +6.6
Kyle Barraclough 26 pre-arb 75 2.2 0.5 +6.5
David Phelps 29 arb 64 2.1 2.5 +4.2
Giancarlo Stanton 26 FA-elig 119 1.9 9.0 -2.7
Ichiro Suzuki 42 FA-elig 143 1.6 2.0 +3.1
AJ Ramos 29 arb 67 1.5 3.4 +1.4
Adam Conley 26 pre-arb 25 1.4 0.5 +4.0
Justin Bour 28 pre-arb 90 1.1 0.5 +3.1
Tom Koehler 30 arb 33 0.8 3.5 -0.8
Dee Strange-Gordon 28 arb 79 0.8 3.3 -0.9
Jeff Mathis 33 FA-elig 41 0.7 1.5 +0.9
Adeiny Hechavarría 27 arb 155 0.7 2.6 -0.4
Justin Nicolino 24 pre-arb 18 0.6 0.2 +1.6
Andrew Cashner↔ SDP 29 FA-elig 12 0.3 3.1 -2.0
Wei-Yin Chen 30 arb 22 0.3 12.5 -11.4
Nick Wittgren 25 – 48 0.3 0.4 +0.6
Mike Dunn 31 FA-elig 51 0.3 3.5 -2.4
José Ureña 24 pre-arb 29 0.3 0.3 +0.7
Brian Ellington 25 pre-arb 32 0.3 0.2 +0.6
Colin Rea↔ SDP 25 pre-arb 1 0.2 0.0 +0.5
Jarred Cosart↔ SDP 26 arb 4 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Tomás Telis 25 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Jeff Francoeur↔ ATL 32 FA-elig 26 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Miguel Rojas 27 pre-arb 123 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Craig Breslow 35 FA-elig 15 0.1 1.5 -1.3
Nefi Ogando 27 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Yefri Pérez 25 pre-arb 12 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Dustin McGowan 34 FA-elig 55 -0.0 1.0 -1.0
Odrisamer Despaigne↔ BAL 29 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Austin Brice 24 – 15 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jo-Jo Reyes 31 arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Kendry Flores 24 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Oswaldo Arcia↔ MIN 25 arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Hunter Cervenka↔ ATL 26 – 18 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Robert Andino 32 – 13 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Cody Hall 28 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Don Kelly 36 FA-elig 13 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Cole Gillespie 32 pre-arb 41 -0.1 0.3 -0.7
Cody Ege↔ ANA 25 – 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Destin Hood 26 pre-arb 13 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Xavier Scruggs 28 pre-arb 24 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Edwin Jackson↔ SDP 32 FA-elig 8 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Jake Esch 26 – 3 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Chris Narveson 34 FA-elig 6 -0.4 1.2 -2.5
Fernando Rodney↔ SDP 39 FA-elig 39 -0.4 0.9 -2.3
Paul Clemens↔ SDP 28 – 2 -0.5 0.0 -1.7
Bryan Morris 29 arb 24 -0.5 1.4 -3.1
Chris Johnson 31 FA-elig 113 -0.8 0.5 -3.0

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.