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GM: Ruben Amaro (since 2009)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+12.0
WAB — wins above budget
+6.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
102–60 (0.630)
record · made playoffs
-60M
surplus $M (value/$)
48.3
roster fWAR
$177.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Roy Halladay 34 FA-elig 32 8.5 20.0 +0.7
Cliff Lee 32 FA-elig 35 7.5 11.0 +7.3
Shane Victorino 30 FA-elig 132 5.6 7.5 +6.3
Cole Hamels 27 arb 33 5.1 9.5 +3.1
Chase Utley 32 FA-elig 103 4.0 15.3 -5.5
Jimmy Rollins 32 FA-elig 142 3.6 8.5 +0.3
Roy Oswalt 33 FA-elig 24 2.7 16.0 -9.4
Vance Worley 23 pre-arb 25 2.5 0.4 +5.6
Hunter Pence↔ HOU 28 arb 54 2.4 2.4 +3.3
John Mayberry Jr. 27 pre-arb 104 2.3 0.4 +5.1
Placido Polanco 35 FA-elig 122 2.2 5.4 +0.1
Ryan Madson 30 FA-elig 62 1.8 4.8 -0.4
Ryan Howard 31 FA-elig 152 1.6 20.0 -16.1
Carlos Ruiz 32 arb 132 1.1 2.8 -0.1
Antonio Bastardo 25 pre-arb 64 1.0 0.4 +2.1
Joe Blanton 30 FA-elig 11 0.6 10.5 -9.0
Kyle Kendrick 26 arb 35 0.3 2.5 -1.6
Brad Lidge 34 FA-elig 25 0.3 12.0 -11.2
Michael Stutes 24 pre-arb 57 0.3 0.4 +0.3
Jose Contreras 39 FA-elig 17 0.2 2.5 -2.0
Dane Sardinha 32 – 15 0.1 – –
Juan Pablo Perez 32 – 8 0.1 – –
Joe Savery 25 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Erik Kratz 31 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.4 -0.3
J.C. Romero↔ COL 35 FA-elig 24 0.0 0.9 -0.8
Scott Mathieson 27 – 4 -0.0 – –
Justin De Fratus 23 – 5 -0.0 – –
Brandon Moss 27 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Drew Carpenter↔ SDP 26 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Michael Schwimer 25 – 12 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Mike Zagurski 28 arb 4 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Pete Orr 32 FA-elig 46 -0.2 0.6 -1.1
Wilson Valdez 33 FA-elig 99 -0.2 0.6 -1.1
Domonic Brown 23 pre-arb 56 -0.3 0.4 -1.0
Ben Francisco 29 arb 100 -0.3 1.2 -1.8
John Bowker↔ PIT 27 arb 12 -0.3 0.2 -0.9
Michael Martinez 28 pre-arb 88 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
Danys Baez 33 FA-elig 29 -0.4 2.8 -3.7
Ross Gload 35 FA-elig 93 -0.4 1.6 -2.6
Brian Schneider 34 FA-elig 41 -0.6 1.6 -3.0
David Herndon 25 pre-arb 45 -0.7 0.4 -2.1
Raul Ibanez 39 FA-elig 144 -1.9 12.2 -16.9

42 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (90%). 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.