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President of baseball ops: Jon Daniels (since 2006)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.2
WAB — wins above budget
+7.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
93–69 (0.574)
record · made playoffs
-18M
surplus $M (value/$)
45.5
roster fWAR
$133.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Adrian Beltré 33 FA-elig 156 6.3 15.0 +1.3
Josh Hamilton 31 arb 148 4.8 13.8 -1.3
Yu Darvish 25 pre-arb 29 4.7 5.5 +6.7
Elvis Andrus 23 arb 158 3.7 2.4 +7.2
Matt Harrison 26 arb 33 3.4 3.0 +5.9
David Murphy 30 FA-elig 147 3.4 3.6 +5.0
Ian Kinsler 30 FA-elig 157 2.9 7.0 +0.5
Craig Gentry 28 arb 122 2.5 0.5 +5.9
Scott Feldman 29 FA-elig 29 2.3 6.5 -0.6
Colby Lewis 32 FA-elig 16 2.3 3.2 +2.6
Joe Nathan 37 FA-elig 66 1.7 7.0 -2.6
Derek Holland 25 arb 29 1.5 1.0 +2.8
Nelson Cruz 31 FA-elig 159 1.1 5.0 -2.1
Ryan Dempster↔ CHC 35 FA-elig 12 0.9 6.0 -3.6
Alexi Ogando 28 pre-arb 58 0.9 0.5 +1.8
Koji Uehara 37 arb 37 0.8 4.0 -1.9
Robbie Ross Jr. 23 – 58 0.8 – –
Mike Adams 33 FA-elig 61 0.7 4.4 -2.5
Mitch Moreland 26 pre-arb 114 0.7 0.5 +1.4
Roy Oswalt 34 FA-elig 17 0.7 5.0 -3.1
Neftalí Feliz 24 arb 8 0.6 0.5 +1.0
Martín Pérez 21 – 12 0.4 0.5 +0.7
Mike Napoli 30 FA-elig 108 0.4 9.4 -8.5
Justin Grimm 23 – 5 0.3 0.3 +0.4
Brandon Snyder 25 pre-arb 40 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Alberto Gonzalez 29 arb 24 0.1 0.8 -0.4
Mark Lowe 29 FA-elig 36 0.1 1.7 -1.5
Michael Kirkman 25 pre-arb 28 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Geovany Soto↔ CHC 29 FA-elig 47 0.0 2.0 -2.0
Tanner Scheppers 25 – 39 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Yoshinori Tateyama 36 pre-arb 14 0.0 1.0 -1.0
Jurickson Profar 19 – 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Luis Hernandez 28 – 2 -0.0 – –
Wilmer Font 22 – 3 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Leonys Martin 24 pre-arb 24 -0.2 2.2 -2.9
Yorvit Torrealba↔ MIL 33 FA-elig 49 -0.3 2.5 -3.2
Luis Martinez 27 pre-arb 10 -0.4 0.5 -1.5
Mike Olt 23 – 16 -0.5 0.2 -1.6
Michael Young 35 FA-elig 156 -1.6 16.0 -20.0

39 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (95%). 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 TEX
Rafael Palmeiro198842.3
Elvis Andrus200729.8
Michael Young200025.0
Charlie Hough198011.2
John Burkett199411.0
Nathaniel Lowe202010.8
Scott Fletcher198510.3
Aaron Sele19979.6
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Kyle Hendricks201224.4
Travis Hafner200222.3
Rich Aurilia199419.8
John Danks200617.4
Ian Kinsler201316.3
Tom Henke198516.2
Ron Darling198214.0
Odúbel Herrera201413.2
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.