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GM: Ruben Amaro (since 2009)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-7.7
WAB — wins above budget
+0.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
81–81 (0.500)
record
-60M
surplus $M (value/$)
41.1
roster fWAR
$167.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Cole Hamels 28 FA-elig 31 5.2 15.0 -1.5
Cliff Lee 33 FA-elig 33 5.0 21.5 -8.6
Jimmy Rollins 33 FA-elig 156 4.7 11.0 +1.0
Carlos Ruiz 33 FA-elig 114 4.5 3.7 +7.8
Chase Utley 33 FA-elig 83 2.6 15.0 -8.3
Roy Halladay 35 FA-elig 25 2.5 20.0 -13.5
Erik Kratz 32 pre-arb 50 2.1 0.5 +4.8
Shane Victorino↔ LAD 31 FA-elig 101 2.0 6.2 -1.0
Vance Worley 24 pre-arb 23 1.6 0.5 +3.7
Hunter Pence↔ SFG 29 arb 101 1.6 6.6 -2.4
Juan Pierre 34 FA-elig 130 1.6 0.8 +3.3
Joe Blanton↔ LAD 31 FA-elig 21 1.6 7.1 -3.0
Jonathan Papelbon 31 FA-elig 70 1.4 11.0 -7.4
Kyle Kendrick 27 arb 37 1.4 3.0 +0.6
Kevin Frandsen 30 arb 55 1.3 0.2 +3.1
Antonio Bastardo 26 arb 65 0.8 0.5 +1.6
Placido Polanco 36 FA-elig 90 0.7 6.2 -4.4
Raul Valdes 34 pre-arb 27 0.7 0.5 +1.3
Jeremy Horst 26 pre-arb 32 0.6 0.5 +1.2
Freddy Galvis 22 pre-arb 58 0.4 0.5 +0.7
Darin Ruf 25 – 12 0.4 0.1 +0.9
Jim Thome↔ BAL 41 FA-elig 30 0.3 0.6 +0.2
Jose Contreras 40 FA-elig 17 0.3 2.5 -1.7
Laynce Nix 31 FA-elig 70 0.3 1.1 -0.5
Michael Schwimer 26 pre-arb 35 0.2 0.5 +0.0
Jake Diekman 25 – 32 0.2 0.3 +0.2
Phillippe Aumont 23 – 18 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Justin De Fratus 24 pre-arb 13 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Domonic Brown 24 pre-arb 56 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Pete Orr 33 FA-elig 35 0.1 0.6 -0.3
Jason Pridie 28 – 9 0.1 – –
David Herndon 26 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Nate Schierholtz↔ SFG 28 arb 37 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Brian Schneider 35 FA-elig 34 0.0 0.8 -0.7
Michael Stutes 25 pre-arb 6 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Tyson Brummett 27 – 1 0.0 0.5 -0.4
John Mayberry Jr. 28 arb 149 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Tyler Cloyd 25 – 6 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Mike Fontenot 32 – 47 0.0 – –
Hector Luna 32 – 28 -0.0 – –
Steven Lerud 27 – 3 -0.1 – –
Joe Savery 26 pre-arb 19 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
B.J. Rosenberg 26 pre-arb 22 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Josh Lindblom↔ LAD 25 pre-arb 26 -0.3 0.2 -0.9
Brian Sanches 33 – 6 -0.4 – –
Ty Wigginton 34 FA-elig 125 -0.5 4.0 -5.2
Chad Qualls↔ NYY 33 FA-elig 35 -0.6 0.7 -2.2
Michael Martinez 29 pre-arb 45 -0.7 0.5 -2.2
Ryan Howard 32 FA-elig 71 -0.9 20.0 -22.2

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 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.