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President of baseball ops: Dave Dombrowski (since 2021) · GM: Sam Fuld (since 2021)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+2.9
WAB — wins above budget
+6.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record · made playoffs
-45M
surplus $M (value/$)
45.8
roster fWAR
$227.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Zack Wheeler 33 FA-elig 32 5.9 24.5 -1.1
Trea Turner 30 FA-elig 155 4.1 27.3 -10.9
Bryson Stott 25 pre-arb 151 4.1 0.7 +15.5
Aaron Nola 30 FA-elig 32 3.8 16.0 -0.8
Brandon Marsh 25 pre-arb 133 3.5 0.7 +13.3
Bryce Harper 30 FA-elig 126 3.5 27.5 -13.9
Taijuan Walker 30 FA-elig 31 2.4 18.0 -8.4
Ranger Suarez 27 arb 22 2.4 3.0 +6.5
J.T. Realmuto 32 FA-elig 135 2.0 23.9 -15.9
Matt Strahm 31 FA-elig 56 2.0 7.5 +0.3
Cristopher Sánchez 26 pre-arb 19 1.8 0.7 +6.4
Jeff Hoffman 30 arb 54 1.5 1.6 +4.4
Johan Rojas 22 – 59 1.4 0.3 +5.2
Alec Bohm 26 arb 145 1.4 0.7 +4.7
José Alvarado 28 FA-elig 42 1.3 3.5 +1.7
Nick Castellanos 31 FA-elig 157 1.3 20.0 -14.8
Craig Kimbrel 35 FA-elig 71 1.1 10.0 -5.6
Edmundo Sosa 27 arb 104 1.0 0.9 +3.2
Gregory Soto 28 arb 69 0.9 3.9 -0.3
Kyle Schwarber 30 FA-elig 160 0.9 20.0 -16.5
Bailey Falter↔ PIT 26 pre-arb 8 0.5 0.3 +1.7
Cristian Pache 24 pre-arb 48 0.5 0.7 +1.1
Andrew Vasquez↔ DET 29 arb 30 0.2 0.5 +0.3
Luis Ortiz 27 pre-arb 14 0.2 0.2 +0.6
Dylan Covey↔ LAD 31 arb 28 0.2 0.5 +0.3
Yunior Marte 28 pre-arb 40 0.2 0.7 -0.1
Drew Ellis 27 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.1 +0.5
Weston Wilson 28 – 8 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Orion Kerkering 22 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Dalton Guthrie 27 pre-arb 23 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Andrew Bellatti 31 FA-elig 27 0.1 0.9 -0.6
Seranthony Domínguez 28 arb 57 0.1 2.5 -2.3
Michael Lorenzen↔ DET 31 FA-elig 11 -0.0 3.2 -3.2
Kody Clemens 27 pre-arb 49 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Erich Uelmen 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Nick Nelson 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Connor Brogdon 28 arb 27 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
McKinley Moore 24 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Jake Cave 30 arb 65 -0.1 0.9 -1.5
Michael Plassmeyer 26 pre-arb 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.9
Garrett Stubbs 30 arb 41 -0.3 0.7 -2.0
Rodolfo Castro↔ PIT 24 pre-arb 14 -0.5 0.1 -2.1
Josh Harrison 35 FA-elig 41 -0.7 2.0 -4.6
Darick Hall 27 pre-arb 18 -0.7 0.7 -3.4

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.