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GM: Andrew Friedman (since 2006)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+12.8
WAB — wins above budget
+14.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record
+46M
surplus $M (value/$)
44.4
roster fWAR
$68.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ben Zobrist 31 FA-elig 157 5.7 4.5 +10.2
David Price 26 arb 31 4.3 4.3 +6.8
José Molina 37 FA-elig 102 4.0 1.5 +8.7
James Shields 30 FA-elig 33 3.8 7.0 +2.7
B.J. Upton 27 FA-elig 146 3.4 7.0 +1.7
Desmond Jennings 25 pre-arb 132 3.2 0.5 +7.8
Jeff Keppinger 32 FA-elig 115 2.7 1.5 +5.4
Matt Moore 23 pre-arb 31 2.4 1.0 +5.1
Fernando Rodney 35 FA-elig 76 2.2 1.8 +3.8
Evan Longoria 26 arb 74 2.0 4.5 +0.7
Matt Joyce 27 arb 124 1.9 0.5 +4.5
Jake McGee 25 pre-arb 69 1.9 0.5 +4.4
Alex Cobb 24 pre-arb 23 1.8 0.5 +4.2
Wade Davis 26 arb 54 1.0 1.5 +1.1
Joel Peralta 36 FA-elig 77 1.0 2.2 +0.3
Jeff Niemann 29 arb 8 0.8 2.8 -0.6
Jeremy Hellickson 25 pre-arb 31 0.8 0.5 +1.6
Ryan Roberts↔ ARI 31 FA-elig 60 0.7 0.8 +1.0
Elliot Johnson 28 arb 123 0.7 0.5 +1.2
Carlos Pena 34 FA-elig 160 0.6 7.2 -5.7
Chris Gimenez 29 pre-arb 42 0.5 0.5 +0.9
Sam Fuld 30 arb 44 0.5 0.5 +0.7
Jose Lobatón 27 arb 69 0.4 0.5 +0.7
Chris Archer 23 – 8 0.4 0.1 +0.8
Burke Badenhop 29 arb 66 0.2 1.1 -0.5
Kyle Farnsworth 36 FA-elig 34 0.2 3.3 -2.7
Sean Rodríguez 27 arb 112 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Cesár Ramos 28 pre-arb 17 0.2 0.5 -0.1
Luke Scott 34 FA-elig 96 0.0 5.0 -4.9
Brandon Allen↔ OAK 26 arb 7 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Brandon Guyer 26 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Josh Lueke 27 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Drew Sutton↔ PIT 29 – 18 -0.0 – –
Brooks Conrad↔ MIL 32 – 24 -0.1 – –
Brandon Gomes 27 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Dane De La Rosa 29 – 5 -0.1 – –
Reid Brignac 26 arb 16 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Ben Francisco↔ HOU 30 arb 24 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Will Rhymes 29 pre-arb 47 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Rich Thompson 33 pre-arb 23 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
J.P. Howell 29 FA-elig 55 -0.4 1.4 -2.4
Stephen Vogt 27 pre-arb 18 -0.5 0.5 -1.8
Hideki Matsui 38 FA-elig 34 -1.0 0.9 -3.5

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (93%). 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 TBR
Ben Zobrist200633.1
Yandy Díaz201819.5
Chris Archer201116.9
Scott Kazmir200415.0
Matt Joyce200810.7
Tyler Glasnow20189.3
Drew Rasmussen20219.1
Joey Wendle20178.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Bobby Abreu199745.3
Germán Márquez201619.1
Cristopher Sánchez201916.2
Jake Cronenworth201914.8
Joe Ryan202113.4
Nathaniel Lowe202010.8
Merrill Kelly201910.7
Blake Snell20209.8
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.