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GM: Michael Hill (since 2016)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-2.7
WAB — wins above budget
-1.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
77–85 (0.475)
record
-5M
surplus $M (value/$)
30.9
roster fWAR
$109.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Giancarlo Stanton 27 FA-elig 159 6.4 14.5 +7.2
Marcell Ozuna 26 arb 159 5.6 3.5 +15.2
J.T. Realmuto 26 arb 141 4.5 0.6 +14.5
Christian Yelich 25 arb 156 4.0 3.5 +9.9
Dee Strange-Gordon 29 FA-elig 158 2.5 7.8 +0.7
Justin Bour 29 arb 108 2.3 0.6 +7.4
Dan Straily 28 arb 33 1.7 0.6 +5.1
Miguel Rojas 28 arb 90 1.5 0.5 +4.5
Edinson Volquez 33 FA-elig 17 1.0 9.0 -5.7
Derek Dietrich 27 arb 135 1.0 1.7 +1.6
Drew Steckenrider 26 – 37 0.6 0.3 +1.8
Kyle Barraclough 27 pre-arb 66 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Odrisamer Despaigne 30 arb 18 0.6 0.5 +1.4
Wei-Yin Chen 31 arb 9 0.5 15.5 -13.8
Brad Ziegler 37 FA-elig 53 0.5 7.0 -5.4
David Phelps↔ SEA 30 arb 44 0.3 3.7 -2.7
Nick Wittgren 26 pre-arb 38 0.3 0.5 +0.5
AJ Ramos↔ NYM 30 arb 40 0.3 4.3 -3.4
Jarlín García 24 pre-arb 68 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Adeiny Hechavarría↔ TBR 28 arb 20 0.2 0.9 -0.2
Jeff Locke 29 FA-elig 7 0.2 3.0 -2.5
Vance Worley 29 arb 26 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Chris O'Grady 27 – 13 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Javy Guerra 31 arb 16 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Dillon Peters 24 – 6 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Brian Anderson 24 – 25 0.1 0.1 +0.1
JT Riddle 25 – 70 0.0 0.5 -0.5
A.J. Ellis 36 FA-elig 51 -0.0 2.5 -2.6
José Ureña 25 pre-arb 36 -0.0 0.5 -0.7
Tyler Moore 30 arb 104 -0.1 1.0 -1.2
Adam Conley 27 pre-arb 22 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Hunter Cervenka 27 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Christian Colón↔ KCR 28 arb 17 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Steve Lombardozzi Jr. 28 – 2 -0.2 – –
Mike Aviles 36 FA-elig 37 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Martín Prado 33 FA-elig 37 -0.2 11.5 -12.3
Ichiro Suzuki 43 FA-elig 136 -0.3 2.0 -2.9
Junichi Tazawa 31 FA-elig 55 -0.3 5.0 -6.0
Tomás Telis 26 pre-arb 48 -0.4 0.2 -1.5
Dustin McGowan 35 FA-elig 63 -0.4 1.8 -3.0
Justin Nicolino 25 pre-arb 20 -0.4 0.3 -1.8
Brian Ellington 26 pre-arb 42 -0.6 0.3 -2.2
Tom Koehler↔ TOR 31 arb 12 -1.0 2.6 -6.1

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 of them (98%). 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.