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GM: Joe Garagiola (since 1995)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+13.5
WAB — wins above budget
+10.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
100–62 (0.617)
record · made playoffs
-8M
surplus $M (value/$)
49.0
roster fWAR
$69.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Randy Johnson 35 FA-elig 35 9.0 9.7 +1.6
Luis Gonzalez 31 FA-elig 153 6.6 2.0 +6.2
Jay Bell 33 FA-elig 151 4.7 6.1 -0.2
Steve Finley 34 FA-elig 156 4.6 5.4 +0.4
Matt Williams 33 FA-elig 154 4.0 8.1 -3.1
Omar Daal 27 FA-elig 32 4.0 2.6 +2.4
Brian Anderson 27 FA-elig 32 1.8 1.8 +0.4
Erubiel Durazo 25 pre-arb 52 1.6 0.2 +1.8
Andy Benes 31 FA-elig 33 1.4 6.0 -4.2
Todd Stottlemyre 34 FA-elig 17 1.4 8.0 -6.2
Armando Reynoso 33 FA-elig 31 1.3 1.6 +0.0
Bernard Gilkey 32 FA-elig 94 1.1 5.2 -3.8
Damian Miller 29 pre-arb 86 1.1 0.2 +1.2
Matt Mantei↔ MIA 25 arb 30 1.1 0.3 +1.0
David Dellucci 25 pre-arb 63 1.0 0.3 +0.9
Kelly Stinnett 29 arb 88 0.9 0.8 +0.4
Tony Womack 29 FA-elig 144 0.6 1.6 -0.8
Greg Colbrunn 29 FA-elig 67 0.5 0.9 -0.2
Greg Swindell 34 FA-elig 63 0.5 1.3 -0.7
Bobby Chouinard 27 arb 32 0.5 0.2 +0.4
Darren Holmes 33 FA-elig 44 0.4 1.5 -0.9
Dan Plesac↔ TOR 37 FA-elig 34 0.4 0.8 -0.3
Turner Ward↔ PIT 34 FA-elig 10 0.3 0.1 +0.3
Tony Batista↔ TOR 25 arb 44 0.3 0.1 +0.3
Vladimir Nunez↔ MIA 24 pre-arb 27 0.3 0.1 +0.2
Hanley Frias 25 pre-arb 69 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Lenny Harris↔ COL 34 FA-elig 19 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Edwin Diaz 24 – 4 0.2 – –
Andy Fox 28 arb 99 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Dan Carlson 29 – 2 0.1 – –
Byung-Hyun Kim 20 pre-arb 25 0.1 0.8 -0.6
Ed Vosberg↔ SDP 37 FA-elig 4 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Rod Barajas 23 – 5 0.1 – –
Gregg Olson 32 FA-elig 61 0.1 0.8 -0.8
Danny Klassen 23 – 1 0.0 – –
Rob Ryan 26 pre-arb 20 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Erik Sabel 24 – 7 -0.1 – –
Ernie Young 29 arb 6 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Amaury Telemaco↔ PHI 25 arb 5 -0.2 0.0 -0.3
Travis Lee 24 pre-arb 120 -0.3 0.4 -0.8
John Frascatore↔ TOR 29 arb 26 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Vicente Padilla 21 – 5 -0.3 – –
LeJon Powell 25 pre-arb 22 -0.4 0.2 -0.7

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (86%). 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.