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GM: Matt Klentak (since 2016)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.0
WAB — wins above budget
-10.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
81–81 (0.500)
record
-75M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.7
roster fWAR
$163.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
J.T. Realmuto 28 arb 145 5.9 5.9 +13.5
Bryce Harper 26 FA-elig 157 3.8 11.5 +1.0
Aaron Nola 26 arb 34 3.5 4.5 +7.0
Rhys Hoskins 26 pre-arb 160 2.2 0.6 +6.8
Scott Kingery 25 pre-arb 126 2.1 1.5 +5.4
César Hernández 29 FA-elig 161 1.7 7.8 -2.2
Jean Segura 29 FA-elig 144 1.6 14.8 -9.6
Zach Eflin 25 arb 32 1.4 0.6 +4.2
Jake Arrieta 33 FA-elig 24 1.1 25.0 -21.3
Andrew McCutchen 32 FA-elig 59 1.1 10.0 -6.4
Héctor Neris 30 arb 68 1.0 1.8 +1.4
Brad Miller↔ CLE 29 arb 66 0.9 0.3 +2.8
Adam Haseley 23 – 67 0.7 0.3 +2.1
Vince Velasquez 27 arb 35 0.7 2.2 -0.1
Sean Rodríguez 34 FA-elig 76 0.5 0.1 +1.7
Jason Vargas↔ NYM 36 FA-elig 11 0.5 2.9 -1.3
Ranger Suarez 23 pre-arb 37 0.4 0.3 +1.1
Juan Nicasio 32 FA-elig 47 0.4 9.2 -7.8
Drew Smyly↔ TEX 30 FA-elig 12 0.4 3.4 -1.9
Corey Dickerson↔ PIT 30 FA-elig 34 0.4 3.7 -2.3
Jose Alvarez 30 FA-elig 67 0.4 1.9 -0.7
Nick Vincent↔ SFG 32 FA-elig 14 0.4 0.8 +0.4
Adam Morgan 29 arb 40 0.3 1.1 -0.3
Seranthony Domínguez 24 pre-arb 27 0.2 0.6 +0.0
Tommy Hunter 32 FA-elig 5 0.2 9.0 -8.5
Cole Irvin 25 – 16 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Andrew Knapp 27 pre-arb 74 0.2 0.6 -0.1
José Pirela↔ SDP 29 arb 12 0.1 0.5 -0.0
Jay Bruce↔ SEA 32 FA-elig 51 0.1 7.3 -6.9
Roman Quinn 26 arb 44 0.1 0.6 -0.2
Mike Morin↔ MIN 28 arb 29 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Blake Parker↔ MIN 34 FA-elig 23 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Víctor Arano 24 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Fernando Salas 34 FA-elig 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Rob Brantly 29 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Dylan Cozens 25 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Mitch Walding 26 – 2 -0.0 – –
JD Hammer 24 – 20 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Nick Pivetta 26 pre-arb 30 -0.1 0.6 -0.9
Drew Anderson 25 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
David Robertson 34 FA-elig 7 -0.1 10.0 -10.3
Logan Morrison 31 FA-elig 29 -0.1 0.3 -0.7
Deivy Grullón 23 – 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Yacksel Ríos↔ PIT 26 – 4 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Phil Gosselin 30 – 44 -0.2 – –
Enyel De Los Santos 23 – 5 -0.2 – –
Pat Neshek 38 FA-elig 20 -0.3 7.8 -8.6
Odúbel Herrera 27 arb 39 -0.3 5.3 -6.3
Austin Davis 26 pre-arb 14 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
Edubray Ramos 26 arb 20 -0.3 0.6 -1.7
Jared Hughes↔ CIN 33 FA-elig 25 -0.5 0.7 -2.4
Aaron Altherr↔ NYM 28 arb 22 -0.5 0.6 -2.3
Jerad Eickhoff 28 arb 12 -0.5 1.0 -2.7
Edgar García 22 – 37 -0.6 0.2 -2.1
Maikel Franco 26 arb 123 -0.6 5.2 -7.1
Nick Williams 25 pre-arb 67 -1.0 0.6 -3.9

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 53 of them (95%). 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.