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GM: Ruben Amaro (since 2009)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-15.2
WAB — wins above budget
-12.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
73–89 (0.451)
record
-100M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.8
roster fWAR
$182.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Cole Hamels 30 FA-elig 30 4.8 22.5 -8.5
Jimmy Rollins 35 FA-elig 138 3.8 11.0 -0.0
Chase Utley 35 FA-elig 155 3.7 15.0 -4.2
Marlon Byrd 36 FA-elig 154 2.2 8.0 -1.7
Cliff Lee 35 FA-elig 13 2.1 25.0 -18.8
Jonathan Papelbon 33 FA-elig 66 2.0 13.0 -7.2
A.J. Burnett 37 FA-elig 34 1.8 15.0 -9.7
Carlos Ruiz 35 FA-elig 110 1.8 8.5 -3.2
Ben Revere 26 arb 151 1.8 1.9 +3.3
Ken Giles 23 – 44 1.8 0.3 +4.8
Jake Diekman 27 pre-arb 73 1.4 0.5 +3.5
David Buchanan 25 – 20 1.1 0.3 +3.0
Kyle Kendrick 29 FA-elig 32 1.0 7.7 -4.9
Antonio Bastardo 28 arb 67 0.9 2.0 +0.7
Justin De Fratus 26 arb 54 0.6 0.5 +1.4
Cody Asche 24 pre-arb 121 0.6 0.5 +1.1
Jerome Williams↔ HOU 32 FA-elig 9 0.5 0.5 +0.9
John Mayberry Jr.↔ TOR 30 arb 63 0.5 1.3 +0.1
Wil Nieves 36 FA-elig 36 0.4 1.1 +0.1
Mike Adams 35 FA-elig 22 0.4 7.0 -5.9
Darin Ruf 27 pre-arb 52 0.3 0.5 +0.3
Andrés Blanco 30 arb 25 0.2 0.3 +0.5
Roberto Hernandez↔ LAD 33 FA-elig 23 0.1 3.2 -2.9
Héctor Neris 25 – 1 0.1 – –
Mario Hollands 25 pre-arb 50 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Jeff Manship 29 pre-arb 20 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Cesar Jimenez 29 pre-arb 16 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez 30 pre-arb 6 -0.0 3.7 -3.8
Shawn Camp 38 – 3 -0.1 – –
Brad Lincoln 29 arb 2 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Grady Sizemore↔ BOS 31 FA-elig 60 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Aaron Altherr 23 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Ethan Martin 25 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Freddy Galvis 24 pre-arb 43 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Jonathan Pettibone 23 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Reid Brignac 28 arb 37 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Sean O'Sullivan 26 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Ronny Cedeno 31 – 7 -0.2 – –
Koyie Hill 35 – 10 -0.2 – –
Ryan Howard 34 FA-elig 153 -0.2 25.0 -25.7
Luis García 27 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Maikel Franco 21 – 16 -0.3 – –
Jayson Nix↔ KCR 31 FA-elig 18 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
César Hernández 24 pre-arb 66 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Phillippe Aumont 25 pre-arb 5 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Cameron Rupp 25 pre-arb 18 -0.5 0.5 -1.9
B.J. Rosenberg 28 pre-arb 13 -0.6 0.5 -2.3
Tony Gwynn Jr. 31 FA-elig 80 -1.0 0.9 -3.7
Domonic Brown 26 arb 144 -1.1 0.6 -3.7

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.