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GM: Brian Cashman (since 1999)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+3.3
WAB — wins above budget
+7.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–67 (0.586)
record · made playoffs
-82M
surplus $M (value/$)
50.6
roster fWAR
$211.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Robinson Canó 29 FA-elig 161 7.3 14.0 +4.9
CC Sabathia 31 FA-elig 28 4.1 23.0 -12.6
Curtis Granderson 31 FA-elig 160 4.0 10.0 +0.3
Russell Martin 29 FA-elig 133 4.0 7.5 +2.8
Nick Swisher 31 FA-elig 148 3.6 10.2 -0.9
Hiroki Kuroda 37 arb 33 3.4 10.0 -1.4
Derek Jeter 38 FA-elig 159 3.3 16.0 -7.6
Mark Teixeira 32 FA-elig 123 2.6 22.5 -15.7
Alex Rodriguez 36 FA-elig 122 2.5 29.0 -22.6
Phil Hughes 26 arb 32 2.0 3.2 +1.9
Chris Stewart 30 FA-elig 55 1.7 0.5 +4.0
Eric Chavez 34 FA-elig 113 1.6 0.9 +3.2
David Robertson 27 arb 65 1.5 1.6 +2.3
Andy Pettitte 40 FA-elig 12 1.5 2.5 +1.3
Iván Nova 25 pre-arb 28 1.1 0.5 +2.4
Rafael Soriano 32 FA-elig 69 1.1 11.0 -8.2
Ichiro Suzuki↔ SEA 38 FA-elig 67 0.8 7.0 -5.1
Freddy Garcia 35 FA-elig 30 0.6 4.0 -2.6
Raul Ibanez 40 FA-elig 130 0.5 1.1 +0.2
Dewayne Wise↔ CHW 34 – 56 0.5 0.1 +1.1
David Phelps 25 – 33 0.5 0.5 +0.7
Boone Logan 27 FA-elig 80 0.4 1.9 -0.7
Jayson Nix 29 pre-arb 74 0.4 0.9 +0.2
Eduardo Núñez 25 pre-arb 38 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Brett Gardner 28 arb 16 0.4 2.8 -1.7
Clay Rapada 31 arb 70 0.4 0.5 +0.5
Mariano Rivera 42 FA-elig 9 0.4 15.0 -14.1
Chris Dickerson 30 – 25 0.3 – –
Andruw Jones 35 FA-elig 94 0.3 2.0 -1.3
Cody Eppley 26 pre-arb 59 0.3 0.5 +0.2
Derek Lowe↔ CLE 39 FA-elig 17 0.1 6.7 -6.4
Joba Chamberlain 26 arb 22 0.1 1.7 -1.5
Francisco Cervelli 26 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Chad Qualls↔ PHI 33 FA-elig 8 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Ramiro Pena 26 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Ryota Igarashi↔ TOR 33 – 2 -0.0 – –
Melky Mesa 25 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Cory Wade 29 arb 39 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Justin Thomas↔ BOS 28 arb 4 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Steve Pearce↔ BAL 29 – 12 -0.1 – –
David Aardsma 30 FA-elig 1 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
D.J. Mitchell 25 – 4 -0.1 – –
Darnell McDonald↔ BOS 33 FA-elig 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Adam Warren 24 – 1 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Casey McGehee↔ PIT 29 arb 22 -0.5 0.5 -1.7

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 of them (91%). 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 NYY
Rickey Henderson198426.6
David Cone199516.6
Tino Martinez199516.0
Gleyber Torres201615.9
Willie Randolph197514.7
Nick Swisher200814.4
Giancarlo Stanton201711.1
Randy Velarde198710.1
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Rickey Henderson198926.8
Doug Drabek198621.4
Fred McGriff198219.7
Greg Gagne198215.6
Austin Jackson200914.8
Jake Westbrook200013.5
Eric Milton199813.4
Nick Johnson200310.5
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.