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GM: Mike Hazen (since 2017)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.4 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-3.8 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
32–28 (0.533)
record
+169M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.5
roster fWAR
$135.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Corbin Carroll 25 arb 57 7.2 10.6 +56.4
Michael Soroka 28 FA-elig 12 4.4 7.0 +33.8
Ketel Marte 32 FA-elig 57 3.8 16.0 +19.6
Nolan Arenado 35 FA-elig 55 3.7 5.0 +29.8
Eduardo Rodriguez 33 FA-elig 12 3.2 21.0 +9.1
Geraldo Perdomo 26 arb 57 3.0 6.2 +21.8
Gabriel Moreno 26 arb 37 2.5 2.5 +20.7
Ildemaro Vargas 34 arb 53 2.3 1.2 +19.9
Juan Morillo 27 pre-arb 27 2.0 0.8 +17.6
Ryan Waldschmidt 23 – 24 1.8 0.6 +16.0
Kevin Ginkel 32 arb 26 1.5 2.7 +10.9
Taylor Clarke 33 arb 27 0.9 1.6 +6.9
Jordan Lawlar 23 pre-arb 6 0.7 0.8 +6.0
Brandyn Garcia 26 pre-arb 14 0.7 0.6 +6.2
Jonathan Loáisiga 31 FA-elig 25 0.7 1.5 +4.7
Jorge Barrosa 25 pre-arb 43 0.5 0.8 +3.9
Tommy Troy 24 – 9 0.3 0.5 +2.5
Paul Sewald 36 FA-elig 25 0.3 1.5 +1.4
Zac Gallen 30 FA-elig 12 0.1 16.2 -15.0
Philip Abner 24 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.2
Alek Thomas 26 – 28 -0.1 – –
Ryan Thompson 34 arb 25 -0.1 4.0 -4.9
Luken Baker 29 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -1.3
Taylor Rashi 30 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.0 -1.5
Jose Fernandez 22 – 53 -0.2 0.8 -2.5
Joe Ross 33 – 3 -0.4 – –
Pavin Smith 30 arb 4 -0.4 2.2 -6.2
Aramis Garcia 33 arb 6 -0.5 0.6 -5.0
Andrew Hoffmann 26 – 8 -0.6 – –
Ryne Nelson 28 arb 12 -0.6 3.0 -8.9
Brandon Pfaadt 27 pre-arb 12 -0.7 3.4 -9.8
Merrill Kelly 37 FA-elig 9 -0.7 18.0 -24.7
Tim Tawa 27 pre-arb 29 -0.9 0.8 -9.5
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 32 – 25 -1.1 – –
Adrian Del Castillo 26 – 39 -1.1 – –
James McCann 36 FA-elig 22 -1.2 2.9 -13.8
Carlos Santana 40 FA-elig 8 -1.5 2.0 -15.5

37 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (86%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR), annualized to full-season pace. 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 ARI
Luis Gonzalez199833.8
Curt Schilling200021.4
Patrick Corbin201016.5
Chris Young200514.5
David Peralta201414.5
Nick Ahmed201312.9
Robbie Ray201411.8
Merrill Kelly201910.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Max Scherzer200922.2
Paul Goldschmidt201821.3
Dansby Swanson201516.1
Curt Schilling200315.2
Brett Anderson200711.5
Ender Inciarte201511.4
Mitch Haniger201611.1
Brad Penny19999.7
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.