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GM: Scott Proefrock (since 2015)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-15.6
WAB — wins above budget
-12.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
63–99 (0.389)
record
-33M
surplus $M (value/$)
19.1
roster fWAR
$93.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Odúbel Herrera 23 – 147 3.8 0.5 +11.3
Cole Hamels↔ TEX 31 FA-elig 20 3.1 14.7 -4.8
Ken Giles 24 pre-arb 69 2.1 0.5 +6.2
Maikel Franco 22 pre-arb 80 1.9 0.4 +5.6
Ben Revere↔ TOR 27 arb 96 1.6 2.6 +2.4
Freddy Galvis 25 arb 151 1.6 0.5 +4.4
Andrés Blanco 31 FA-elig 106 1.6 0.8 +4.1
Aaron Altherr 24 pre-arb 39 1.5 0.1 +4.6
César Hernández 25 pre-arb 127 1.3 0.5 +3.7
Aaron Harang 37 FA-elig 29 1.3 5.0 -1.0
Jerad Eickhoff 24 – 8 1.2 0.1 +3.7
Aaron Nola 22 – 13 0.9 0.2 +2.6
Jeanmar Gómez 27 arb 65 0.8 0.8 +1.9
Jonathan Papelbon↔ WSN 34 FA-elig 37 0.7 8.2 -6.1
Luis García 28 pre-arb 72 0.5 0.5 +1.1
Cameron Rupp 26 pre-arb 81 0.5 0.5 +1.0
Elvis Araujo 23 pre-arb 40 0.4 0.4 +1.0
Dalier Hinojosa↔ BOS 29 pre-arb 18 0.3 0.1 +1.0
Adam Morgan 25 – 15 0.3 0.3 +0.8
Jake Diekman↔ TEX 28 arb 41 0.3 0.3 +0.7
Brian Bogusevic 31 pre-arb 22 0.3 0.1 +0.8
Severino González 22 pre-arb 7 0.3 0.1 +0.7
David Buchanan 26 pre-arb 15 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Chad Billingsley 30 FA-elig 7 0.2 1.5 -0.9
Cesar Jimenez↔ MIL 30 FA-elig 3 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Chase d'Arnaud 28 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Justin De Fratus 27 arb 61 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Ken Roberts↔ COL 27 pre-arb 6 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Nefi Ogando 26 – 4 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Kevin Correia 34 – 5 -0.0 – –
Colton Murray 25 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Erik Kratz↔ KCR 35 arb 12 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Seth Rosin 26 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Jordan Danks 28 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Héctor Neris 26 – 32 -0.1 0.3 -0.7
Chase Utley↔ LAD 36 FA-elig 73 -0.2 10.2 -10.7
Ryan Howard 35 FA-elig 129 -0.2 25.0 -25.6
Phillippe Aumont 26 – 1 -0.2 – –
Darin Ruf 28 arb 106 -0.3 0.5 -1.3
Adam Loewen 31 arb 20 -0.3 0.2 -1.0
Jerome Williams 33 FA-elig 33 -0.3 2.5 -3.3
Alec Asher 23 pre-arb 7 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Darnell Sweeney 24 – 37 -0.4 0.1 -1.3
Grady Sizemore↔ TBR 32 FA-elig 39 -0.4 0.8 -2.0
Domonic Brown 27 arb 63 -0.4 2.6 -4.0
Cody Asche 25 pre-arb 129 -0.6 0.5 -2.3
Dustin McGowan 33 FA-elig 14 -0.6 0.7 -2.7
Sean O'Sullivan 27 pre-arb 13 -0.7 0.0 -2.2
Jeff Francoeur 31 FA-elig 119 -0.8 0.9 -3.5
Carlos Ruiz 36 FA-elig 86 -1.9 8.5 -14.4

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 of them (96%). 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.