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GM: Brian Sabean (since 1997)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.5
WAB — wins above budget
+3.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
94–68 (0.580)
record · World Series champions
-17M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.9
roster fWAR
$121.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Buster Posey 25 arb 148 9.8 0.6 +24.5
Ángel Pagán 30 FA-elig 154 4.6 4.8 +7.0
Melky Cabrera 27 FA-elig 113 4.5 6.0 +5.6
Matt Cain 27 FA-elig 35 3.6 15.0 -5.8
Madison Bumgarner 22 arb 32 3.0 0.6 +7.0
Pablo Sandoval 25 arb 108 2.4 3.2 +3.0
Marco Scutaro↔ COL 36 FA-elig 61 2.1 2.3 +3.0
Brandon Crawford 25 pre-arb 143 1.9 0.5 +4.3
Ryan Vogelsong 34 FA-elig 31 1.9 3.0 +1.8
Grégor Blanco 28 arb 141 1.8 0.5 +4.2
Brandon Belt 24 pre-arb 145 1.8 0.5 +4.1
Sergio Romo 29 arb 69 1.0 1.6 +0.9
Tim Lincecum 28 arb 33 0.9 18.0 -15.6
Barry Zito 34 FA-elig 32 0.9 19.0 -16.6
Jeremy Affeldt 33 FA-elig 67 0.8 5.0 -2.9
Joaquin Arias 27 pre-arb 112 0.6 0.5 +1.2
Javier López 34 FA-elig 70 0.5 4.2 -2.9
Nate Schierholtz↔ PHI 28 arb 77 0.5 0.9 +0.5
George Kontos 27 pre-arb 44 0.5 0.5 +0.7
Jose Mijares↔ KCR 27 arb 27 0.3 0.3 +0.4
Ryan Theriot 32 FA-elig 104 0.2 1.2 -0.6
Hunter Pence↔ PHI 29 arb 59 0.2 3.8 -3.3
Francisco Peguero 24 pre-arb 17 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Xavier Nady↔ WSN 33 FA-elig 19 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Eli Whiteside 32 FA-elig 12 0.1 0.6 -0.4
Héctor Sánchez 22 pre-arb 74 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Dan Otero 27 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Travis Blackley↔ OAK 29 – 4 0.0 – –
Dan Runzler 27 arb 6 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Brian Wilson 30 FA-elig 2 -0.0 8.5 -8.5
Yusmeiro Petit 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Eric Hacker 29 – 4 -0.0 – –
Steve Edlefsen 27 – 14 -0.0 – –
Guillermo Mota 38 FA-elig 26 -0.1 1.0 -1.2
Brett Pill 27 pre-arb 48 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Aubrey Huff 35 FA-elig 52 -0.1 10.0 -10.2
Jean Machi 30 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Shane Loux 32 – 19 -0.3 0.5 -1.1
Conor Gillaspie 24 pre-arb 6 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Charlie Culberson 23 – 6 -0.3 – –
Santiago Casilla 31 FA-elig 73 -0.4 2.2 -3.3
Brad Penny 34 FA-elig 22 -0.4 0.3 -1.4
Justin Christian 32 – 34 -0.6 0.4 -2.0
Clay Hensley 32 FA-elig 60 -0.6 0.8 -2.3
Emmanuel Burriss 27 arb 60 -0.9 0.6 -3.0

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 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.