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GM: Brian Sabean (since 1997)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.0
WAB — wins above budget
-2.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–76 (0.531)
record
-44M
surplus $M (value/$)
35.3
roster fWAR
$129.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Pablo Sandoval 24 arb 117 5.3 0.5 +12.4
Matt Cain 26 FA-elig 35 4.6 7.3 +4.0
Madison Bumgarner 21 pre-arb 35 4.5 0.5 +10.5
Tim Lincecum 27 arb 33 3.2 14.0 -6.2
Chris Stewart 29 pre-arb 67 2.6 0.4 +6.0
Andres Torres 33 FA-elig 112 2.1 2.2 +3.0
Ryan Vogelsong 33 arb 31 2.1 0.4 +4.8
Sergio Romo 28 arb 65 2.0 0.5 +4.3
Buster Posey 24 pre-arb 45 1.7 0.6 +3.7
Nate Schierholtz 27 arb 115 1.3 0.4 +2.7
Eli Whiteside 31 FA-elig 82 1.2 0.4 +2.4
Freddy Sanchez 33 FA-elig 60 1.1 6.0 -3.3
Carlos Beltrán↔ NYM 34 FA-elig 44 1.0 6.0 -3.4
Mike Fontenot 31 FA-elig 85 1.0 1.1 +1.4
Cody Ross 30 FA-elig 121 0.7 6.3 -4.6
Ramon E Ramirez 29 arb 66 0.7 1.6 +0.0
Brandon Belt 23 pre-arb 63 0.6 0.4 +1.1
Brett Pill 26 pre-arb 15 0.6 0.4 +1.0
Aaron Rowand 33 FA-elig 108 0.6 13.6 -12.1
Jonathan Sánchez 28 arb 19 0.6 4.8 -3.4
Pat Burrell 34 FA-elig 92 0.5 1.0 +0.3
Brandon Crawford 24 – 66 0.4 0.2 +0.8
Santiago Casilla 30 FA-elig 49 0.4 1.3 -0.3
Javier López 33 FA-elig 70 0.4 2.4 -1.4
Dan Runzler 26 pre-arb 31 0.3 0.4 +0.3
Brian Wilson 29 arb 57 0.3 6.5 -5.9
Darren Ford 25 – 26 0.2 – –
Conor Gillaspie 23 pre-arb 15 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Eric Surkamp 23 – 6 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Justin Christian 31 – 18 0.0 – –
Waldis Joaquin 24 – 5 0.0 – –
Jeremy Affeldt 32 FA-elig 67 -0.0 4.5 -4.5
Ryan Rohlinger 27 – 1 -0.0 – –
Guillermo Mota 37 FA-elig 52 -0.1 0.9 -1.1
Mark DeRosa 36 FA-elig 47 -0.1 6.0 -6.3
Miguel Tejada 37 FA-elig 91 -0.2 6.5 -6.9
Héctor Sánchez 21 – 13 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Steve Edlefsen 26 pre-arb 13 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
Jeff Keppinger↔ HOU 31 FA-elig 56 -0.5 1.3 -2.4
Emmanuel Burriss 26 arb 59 -0.6 0.4 -1.8
Orlando Cabrera↔ CLE 36 FA-elig 39 -0.6 0.3 -1.7
Bill Hall↔ HOU 31 FA-elig 16 -0.6 0.8 -2.3
Barry Zito 33 FA-elig 13 -0.7 18.5 -20.3
Aubrey Huff 34 FA-elig 150 -0.9 10.0 -12.3

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (91%). 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 SFG
Jeff Kent199630.9
Jason Schmidt200123.6
Rich Aurilia199419.8
Shawn Estes199514.8
Robb Nen199712.9
Liván Hernández199911.6
Mike Yastrzemski201911.3
Randy Winn200510.9
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Bryan Reynolds201820.0
Liván Hernández200317.2
Joe Nathan200314.1
Zack Wheeler201113.0
Francisco Liriano200312.5
John Burkett199411.0
Jack Clark198510.1
Rob Deer19857.9
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.