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GM: Ned Rice (since 2020)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-10.2 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-4.3 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
28–32 (0.467)
record
-68M
surplus $M (value/$)
12.5
roster fWAR
$159.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Aaron Nola 27 arb 12 2.0 8.5 +5.9
Zack Wheeler 30 FA-elig 11 1.9 21.5 -7.3
J.T. Realmuto 29 FA-elig 47 1.9 10.0 +3.6
Bryce Harper 27 FA-elig 58 1.8 27.5 -14.1
Zach Eflin 26 arb 11 1.5 2.6 +8.3
Alec Bohm 23 – 44 1.3 0.1 +9.4
Jean Segura 30 FA-elig 54 1.3 14.8 -5.5
Rhys Hoskins 27 pre-arb 41 0.7 0.2 +5.2
Héctor Neris 31 FA-elig 24 0.7 4.6 +0.5
Didi Gregorius 30 FA-elig 60 0.7 14.0 -9.0
Vince Velasquez 28 arb 9 0.6 3.6 +1.1
Tommy Hunter 33 FA-elig 24 0.5 0.1 +3.8
Jake Arrieta 34 FA-elig 9 0.5 20.0 -16.3
Andrew Knapp 28 arb 33 0.5 0.7 +2.7
Blake Parker 35 arb 14 0.3 0.1 +1.9
Rafael Marchán 21 – 3 0.3 0.0 +1.9
Roman Quinn 27 pre-arb 41 0.2 0.2 +1.2
JoJo Romero 23 – 12 0.2 0.1 +1.2
Jose Alvarez 31 FA-elig 8 0.1 3.0 -2.0
Adonis Medina 23 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.7
David Hale↔ NYY 32 pre-arb 6 0.1 0.1 +0.5
Phil Gosselin 31 – 39 0.0 – –
Ramón Rosso 24 – 7 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Mauricio Llovera 24 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Cole Irvin 26 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Spencer Howard 23 – 6 -0.0 0.2 -0.4
Adam Morgan 30 arb 17 -0.0 1.6 -1.8
Andrew McCutchen 33 FA-elig 57 -0.0 17.0 -17.2
Connor Brogdon 25 – 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.4
Ronald Torreyes 27 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.3
Austin Davis↔ PIT 27 – 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.4
Reggie McClain 27 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Garrett Cleavinger 26 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Jay Bruce 33 FA-elig 32 -0.1 1.6 -2.4
Trevor Kelley 27 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.8
Mickey Moniak 22 – 8 -0.1 0.0 -0.9
Ranger Suarez 24 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.2 -1.2
Nick Pivetta↔ BOS 27 – 3 -0.2 0.0 -1.3
Neil Walker 34 FA-elig 18 -0.2 0.1 -1.4
Adam Haseley 24 pre-arb 40 -0.2 0.2 -1.6
Deolis Guerra 31 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.1 -1.9
Kyle Garlick 28 pre-arb 12 -0.4 0.1 -3.3
David Phelps↔ MIL 33 FA-elig 10 -0.4 0.6 -3.7
Brandon Workman↔ BOS 31 FA-elig 14 -0.5 2.3 -6.0
Heath Hembree↔ BOS 31 FA-elig 11 -0.8 0.8 -6.8
Scott Kingery 26 pre-arb 36 -0.9 1.8 -8.4

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 of them (98%). 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.