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GM: Pat Gillick (since 2006)

2007 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.1
WAB — wins above budget
+8.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
89–73 (0.549)
record · made playoffs
-0M
surplus $M (value/$)
44.9
roster fWAR
$94.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Chase Utley 28 arb 132 7.7 4.8 +11.6
Jimmy Rollins 28 FA-elig 162 6.5 8.0 +5.8
Aaron Rowand 29 FA-elig 161 5.4 4.3 +7.3
Cole Hamels 23 pre-arb 30 3.8 0.4 +7.7
Jayson Werth 28 arb 94 3.2 0.8 +6.0
Ryan Howard 27 arb 144 3.1 0.9 +5.6
Shane Victorino 26 arb 131 2.8 0.4 +5.7
Jamie Moyer 44 FA-elig 34 1.7 6.5 -2.8
Pat Burrell 30 FA-elig 155 1.5 13.2 -10.0
Jon Lieber 37 FA-elig 14 1.4 7.8 -4.8
Carlos Ruiz 28 pre-arb 115 1.4 0.4 +2.6
Brett Myers 26 arb 51 1.2 5.1 -2.4
Kyle Kendrick 22 – 20 1.2 – –
Michael Bourn 24 pre-arb 105 1.0 0.4 +1.8
Kyle Lohse↔ CIN 28 FA-elig 13 1.0 1.6 +0.6
Tadahito Iguchi↔ CHW 32 pre-arb 45 1.0 1.1 +1.0
Greg Dobbs 28 arb 142 0.8 0.4 +1.3
Rod Barajas 31 FA-elig 48 0.5 2.5 -1.4
Chris Coste 34 pre-arb 48 0.4 0.4 +0.5
J.D. Durbin↔ ARI 25 arb 18 0.4 0.4 +0.6
Ryan Madson 26 arb 38 0.3 1.1 -0.4
Freddy Garcia 30 FA-elig 11 0.3 10.0 -9.3
J.C. Romero↔ BOS 31 FA-elig 51 0.2 1.1 -0.6
Adam Eaton 29 FA-elig 34 0.2 7.2 -6.7
Yoel Hernandez 27 – 14 0.2 – –
Russell Branyan↔ SDP 31 FA-elig 7 0.1 0.1 +0.2
John Ennis 27 – 3 0.1 – –
Chris Roberson 27 – 28 0.1 – –
Clay Condrey 31 arb 39 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Antonio Alfonseca 35 FA-elig 61 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Joe Bisenius 24 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Anderson Garcia 26 – 1 0.0 – –
Mike Zagurski 24 – 25 0.0 – –
Francisco Del Rosario 26 – 23 0.0 – –
Zack Segovia 24 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Kane Davis 32 – 11 -0.1 – –
Fabio Castro 22 – 10 -0.1 – –
Pete Laforest↔ SDP 29 – 14 -0.1 – –
Tom Gordon 39 FA-elig 44 -0.2 7.0 -7.4
J.A. Happ 24 – 1 -0.2 – –
Abraham O. Nunez 31 FA-elig 136 -0.2 1.9 -2.4
Matt Smith 28 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.4 -1.0
Jose Mesa↔ DET 41 FA-elig 40 -0.3 1.8 -2.5
Geoff Geary 30 arb 57 -0.4 0.8 -1.7
Wes Helms 31 FA-elig 112 -0.6 2.3 -3.6
Brian Sanches 28 – 12 -0.6 – –

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 34 of them (74%). 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 PHI
Bobby Abreu199745.3
Curt Schilling199236.3
J. T. Realmuto201925.7
Von Hayes198222.3
John Kruk198918.4
Cristopher Sánchez201916.2
Odúbel Herrera201413.2
Tommy Greene19909.4
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Ryne Sandberg198248.2
Carlos Carrasco200925.5
Curt Schilling200021.4
J. P. Crawford201817.8
George Bell198016.7
Gavin Floyd200615.3
Julio Franco198213.3
Adam Eaton199911.6
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.