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GM: Joe Garagiola (since 1995)

1998 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-13.4
WAB — wins above budget
-11.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
65–97 (0.401)
record
-9M
surplus $M (value/$)
19.4
roster fWAR
$31.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Andy Benes 30 FA-elig 35 3.7 6.5 -2.4
Devon White 35 FA-elig 146 3.7 3.5 +0.5
Omar Daal 26 arb 33 3.5 0.6 +3.2
Jay Bell 32 FA-elig 155 3.4 5.0 -1.3
Tony Batista 24 pre-arb 106 2.5 0.2 +2.5
Matt Williams 32 FA-elig 135 2.3 4.8 -2.3
Kelly Stinnett 28 arb 92 2.1 0.3 +2.0
Andy Fox 27 pre-arb 139 1.9 0.2 +1.8
Gregg Olson 31 FA-elig 64 1.2 0.7 +0.7
Travis Lee 23 pre-arb 146 1.0 0.2 +0.9
Amaury Telemaco↔ CHC 24 pre-arb 27 1.0 0.1 +0.9
Brian Anderson 26 arb 35 0.7 0.8 -0.1
Damian Miller 28 pre-arb 57 0.6 0.2 +0.5
Jeff Suppan↔ KCR 23 arb 13 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Clint Sodowsky 25 arb 46 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Russ Springer↔ ATL 29 FA-elig 26 0.2 0.4 -0.1
Willie Banks↔ NYY 29 FA-elig 33 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Bobby Chouinard↔ MIL 26 pre-arb 26 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Vladimir Nunez 23 – 4 0.0 – –
Neil Weber 25 – 4 0.0 – –
Jorge Fabregas↔ NYM 28 arb 50 0.0 0.8 -0.7
Ricky Pickett 28 – 2 -0.0 – –
Chris Michalak 27 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.2 -0.2
Alan Embree↔ ATL 28 FA-elig 35 -0.1 0.4 -0.4
Joel Adamson 26 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Bob Wolcott 24 – 6 -0.1 – –
Bryan Corey 24 – 3 -0.1 – –
Chris Jones↔ SFG 32 FA-elig 20 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Hensley Meulens 31 – 7 -0.1 – –
Scott Brow 29 arb 17 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Efrain Valdez 31 – 6 -0.1 – –
Ben Ford 22 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Hanley Frias 24 pre-arb 15 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Aaron Small↔ OAK 26 arb 23 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Mike Robertson 27 – 11 -0.2 – –
Felix Rodriguez 25 arb 43 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Edwin Diaz 23 pre-arb 3 -0.4 0.2 -0.6
Bernard Gilkey↔ NYM 31 FA-elig 29 -0.4 1.3 -1.7
David Dellucci 24 pre-arb 124 -0.4 0.2 -0.6
Barry Manuel 32 FA-elig 13 -0.5 0.3 -0.8
Willie Blair↔ NYM 32 FA-elig 23 -0.6 2.2 -2.8
Andy Stankiewicz 33 FA-elig 77 -0.8 0.3 -1.2
Yamil Benitez 25 arb 91 -0.8 0.2 -1.0
Danny Klassen 22 – 29 -1.0 – –
Brent Brede 26 pre-arb 98 -1.5 0.2 -1.8
Karim Garcia 22 arb 113 -1.5 0.2 -1.8

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (80%). 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 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.