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GM: Kim Ng (since 2021)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.7
WAB — wins above budget
-0.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
84–78 (0.519)
record · made playoffs
+8M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.0
roster fWAR
$107.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jesús Luzardo 25 arb 32 3.8 2.5 +12.8
Luis Arraez 26 arb 147 3.4 6.1 +7.3
Braxton Garrett 25 arb 31 3.1 0.7 +11.4
Sandy Alcantara 27 FA-elig 28 3.0 6.3 +5.7
Tanner Scott 28 FA-elig 74 2.8 2.8 +8.5
Jon Berti 33 arb 133 2.2 2.1 +6.6
Jazz Chisholm Jr. 25 arb 97 1.9 0.7 +6.9
Jorge Soler 31 FA-elig 137 1.9 15.0 -7.6
Eury Pérez 20 – 19 1.5 0.4 +5.5
Jesús Sánchez 25 arb 125 1.4 0.7 +4.8
Edward Cabrera 25 pre-arb 22 1.1 0.7 +3.7
Jake Burger↔ CHW 27 pre-arb 53 1.1 0.2 +4.1
Dylan Floro↔ MIN 32 FA-elig 43 1.0 2.9 +1.0
A.J. Puk 28 arb 58 0.9 0.7 +2.9
Andrew Nardi 24 pre-arb 63 0.9 0.7 +2.8
Josh Bell↔ CLE 30 FA-elig 53 0.7 5.8 -3.0
Nick Fortes 26 pre-arb 108 0.6 0.7 +1.7
Garrett Hampson 28 arb 98 0.6 0.6 +1.8
Steven Okert 31 pre-arb 64 0.5 0.7 +1.3
Huascar Brazobán 33 pre-arb 50 0.5 0.7 +1.3
David Robertson↔ NYM 38 FA-elig 22 0.4 3.5 -1.8
JT Chargois 32 FA-elig 46 0.4 0.8 +0.8
Trevor Rogers 25 arb 4 0.3 0.8 +0.3
Garrett Cooper↔ SDP 32 FA-elig 82 0.2 2.6 -1.8
George Soriano 24 – 26 0.2 0.4 +0.3
Matt Barnes 33 FA-elig 24 0.1 8.4 -7.8
Xavier Edwards 23 – 30 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Matt Moore↔ ANA 34 FA-elig 4 0.1 0.6 -0.2
Jonathan Davis 31 pre-arb 34 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Enmanuel De Jesus 26 – 2 0.0 – –
Jeff Lindgren 26 – 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jacob Amaya 24 – 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Robert Garcia↔ WSN 27 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Chi Chi González 31 – 3 -0.0 – –
Geoff Hartlieb 29 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Jorge López↔ BAL 30 FA-elig 12 -0.1 0.7 -0.9
Archie Bradley 30 FA-elig 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Johan Quezada 28 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Dane Myers 27 – 22 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Sean Nolin 33 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Daniel Castano 28 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Peyton Burdick 26 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Ryan Weathers↔ SDP 23 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Bryan Hoeing 26 pre-arb 33 -0.3 0.6 -1.8
Devin Smeltzer 27 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.1 -1.4
Bryan De La Cruz 26 pre-arb 153 -0.3 0.7 -2.1
Yuli Gurriel 39 FA-elig 108 -0.4 1.2 -2.7
Avisaíl García 32 FA-elig 37 -0.4 12.0 -13.7
Jacob Stallings 33 FA-elig 89 -0.4 3.4 -5.1
Johnny Cueto 37 FA-elig 13 -0.7 6.0 -8.6
Joey Wendle 33 FA-elig 112 -0.8 6.0 -9.0
Jean Segura 33 FA-elig 85 -1.2 6.5 -11.4

52 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 50 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.