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GM: Joe Garagiola

Overview

FORCED-SPEND ↗ rising
expensive & losing · year 1 in this regime · payroll 1.41× league · TAB -0.8
-0.8TAB — talent above budget16th/30
-1.4WAB — realized wins (TAB + luck)16th/30
7.0depth — 2+ WAR regulars10th/30
-3.9dead WAR — sub-replacement drag14th/30
24%dead money %13th/30
0.525win %11th/30
37.7roster fWAR12th/30
-27surplus $M (value vs cost)26th/30
$77Mpayroll $M7th/30

Roster

CFSteve Finley 148GDanny Bautista 26GJason Conti 4G
LFLuis Gonzalez 162GDanny Bautista 27GJason Conti 2G
RFDanny Bautista 84GTravis Lee 54GJason Conti 33G
SSTony Womack 143GHanley Frias 21GCraig Counsell 6G
2BJay Bell 145GCraig Counsell 25GHanley Frias 15G
3BMatt Williams 94GDanny Klassen 25GCraig Counsell 23G
1BGreg Colbrunn 99GErubiel Durazo 60GAlex Cabrera 15G
STARTERSRandy Johnson 9.6WARCurt Schilling 2.9WARBrian Anderson 2.0WARArmando Reynoso 1.8WARTodd Stottlemyre 1.1WAR
CDamian Miller 97GKelly Stinnett 74GRod Barajas 5G
DHSteve Finley 2GJay Bell 1GGreg Colbrunn 1G
BULLPEN★ Byung-Hyun Kim 14svGreg Swindell 9hDan Plesac 8hMike Morgan 5hRuss Springer 2hDarren Holmes 1hMatt Mantei 0hJohnny Ruffin 0h
CDamian Miller 97 · Kelly Stinnett 74 · Rod Barajas 5
1BGreg Colbrunn 99 · Erubiel Durazo 60 · Alex Cabrera 15
2BJay Bell 145 · Craig Counsell 25 · Hanley Frias 15
3BMatt Williams 94 · Danny Klassen 25 · Craig Counsell 23
SSTony Womack 143 · Hanley Frias 21 · Craig Counsell 6
LFLuis Gonzalez 162 · Danny Bautista 27 · Jason Conti 2
CFSteve Finley 148 · Danny Bautista 26 · Jason Conti 4
RFDanny Bautista 84 · Travis Lee 54 · Jason Conti 33
DHSteve Finley 2 · Jay Bell 1 · Greg Colbrunn 1
SPRandy Johnson 9.6 · Curt Schilling 2.9 · Brian Anderson 2.0 · Armando Reynoso 1.8 · Todd Stottlemyre 1.1
BP★ Byung-Hyun Kim 14 · Greg Swindell 9 · Dan Plesac 8 · Mike Morgan 5 · Russ Springer 2 · Darren Holmes 1 · Matt Mantei 0 · Johnny Ruffin 0

Each position lists its starter then backups by games (so platoons & bench show). Starters (mound) & bullpen (left, foul territory) are ranked by WAR; ★ marks the closer (most save chances). MLB Stats API.

2000 roster — value & surplus

PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Randy Johnson 36 FA-elig 359.6 13.3 +0.2
Luis Gonzalez 32 FA-elig 1624.7 3.3 +3.4
Steve Finley 35 FA-elig 1523.3 5.4 -0.7
Curt Schilling↔ PHI 33 FA-elig 132.9 2.5 +1.6
Greg Colbrunn 30 FA-elig 1162.4 1.0 +2.4
Damian Miller 30 arb 1002.3 0.3 +3.0
Brian Anderson 28 FA-elig 372.0 2.2 +0.6
Armando Reynoso 34 FA-elig 311.8 3.4 -0.9
Craig Counsell 29 – 671.4 0.2 +1.8
Jay Bell 34 FA-elig 1491.3 7.0 -5.2
Greg Swindell 35 FA-elig 641.1 1.8 -0.2
Vicente Padilla↔ PHI 22 – 271.1 – –
Todd Stottlemyre 35 FA-elig 181.1 8.0 -6.5
Byung-Hyun Kim 21 pre-arb 611.0 0.8 +0.7
Mike Morgan 40 – 601.0 – –
Danny Bautista↔ MIA 28 FA-elig 870.9 0.3 +1.0
Geraldo Guzman 27 – 130.7 – –
Matt Williams 34 FA-elig 960.6 8.5 -7.6
Alex Cabrera 28 – 310.5 – –
Dan Plesac 38 FA-elig 620.4 1.5 -1.0
Erubiel Durazo 26 pre-arb 670.3 0.3 +0.2
Matt Mantei 26 arb 470.3 2.8 -2.4
Travis Lee↔ PHI 25 pre-arb 720.3 0.3 +0.2
Omar Daal↔ PHI 28 FA-elig 200.2 3.5 -3.3
Jason Conti 25 – 470.2 – –
Kelly Stinnett 30 FA-elig 760.1 1.0 -0.9
Rob Ryan 27 – 270.0 – –
Matt Mieske↔ HOU 32 FA-elig 110.0 0.1 -0.1
Darren Holmes↔ BAL 34 FA-elig 80.0 0.9 -0.8
Rod Barajas 24 – 5-0.0 – –
Tony Womack 30 FA-elig 146-0.0 2.5 -2.5
Nelson Figueroa 26 – 3-0.0 – –
David Dellucci 26 arb 34-0.1 0.3 -0.4
Russ Springer 31 FA-elig 52-0.2 1.7 -2.0
Hanley Frias 26 arb 75-0.2 0.2 -0.6
Turner Ward 35 – 15-0.3 – –
Danny Klassen 24 pre-arb 29-0.3 0.2 -0.7
Johnny Ruffin 28 – 5-0.3 – –
Andy Fox↔ MIA 29 arb 31-0.6 0.2 -1.0
Bernard Gilkey↔ BOS 33 FA-elig 38-0.9 2.7 -4.0
Lenny Harris↔ NYM 35 FA-elig 36-1.0 0.4 -1.8

Key additions (new vs 1999)

PlayerfWAR
Curt Schilling2.9
Craig Counsell1.4
Mike Morgan1.0
Danny Bautista0.9
Geraldo Guzman0.7
Alex Cabrera0.5

Key subtractions (gone from 1999)

Player1999 fWAR
Andy Benes1.4
Bobby Chouinard0.5
Tony Batista0.3
Vladimir Nunez0.3
Edwin Diaz0.2
Dan Carlson0.1

Current & Historical Payroll

2000 payroll
$76.8M

What the front office was committed to as of 2000, 2000–2006. Pre-2015 has no contract-terms data — forward italic $ are realized actuals (hindsight, not commitments known then). Control labels (ARB/FA) are point-in-time.

current $ guaranteed $ actual $ (hindsight) arbitration (proj) pre-arb (proj) free agent

Guaranteed / signed (24)

PlayerAgeSvc2000200120022003200420052006
Randy Johnson3612.000$13.3M$13.3M$13.3M$15.0M$16.0MFREE AGENT
Matt Williams3413.000$8.5M$9.0M$9.5M$10.0MFREE AGENT
Todd Stottlemyre3512.000$8.0MFREE AGENT$8.0M
Jay Bell3414.000$7.0M$8.1M$8.0MFREE AGENT
Steve Finley3511.000$5.4M$5.4M$5.4M$4.2M$4.5MFREE AGENT
Omar Daal287.000$3.5MFREE AGENT
Armando Reynoso349.000$3.4M$2.0M$4.1MFREE AGENT
Luis Gonzalez3210.000$3.3M$4.8M$4.3M$4.0M$8.2M$10.1M$10.7M
Bernard Gilkey3310.000$2.7MFREE AGENT
Curt Schilling3312.000$2.5M$6.5M$10.0M$10.0MFREE AGENT
Tony Womack307.000$2.5M$4.0M$4.5M$3.6MFREE AGENT
Brian Anderson287.000$2.2M$4.1M$5.4MFREE AGENT
Greg Swindell3514.000$1.8M$2.5M$2.8MFREE AGENT
Russ Springer318.000$1.7M$1.7MFREE AGENT
Dan Plesac3814.000$1.5MFREE AGENT
Greg Colbrunn308.000$1.0M$1.6M$1.8MFREE AGENT$2.8M
Kelly Stinnett306.000$1.0MFREE AGENT
Darren Holmes3410.000$852kFREE AGENT
Lenny Harris3512.000$354kFREE AGENT
Danny Bautista287.000$332k$675k$2.0M$3.0M$4.0MFREE AGENT
Matt Mieske327.000$105kFREE AGENT
Mike Morgan4022.000—$700k$750kFREE AGENT
Johnny Ruffin287.000—FREE AGENT
Turner Ward3510.000—FREE AGENT

Arbitration-eligible (6)

PlayerAgeSvc2000200120022003200420052006
Matt Mantei265.000$2.8MFREE AGENT
David Dellucci263.000$312kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Damian Miller303.000$300kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Hanley Frias263.000$244kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Andy Fox294.000$232kARB 3FREE AGENT
Craig Counsell295.000$200kFREE AGENT

Pre-arbitration (11)

PlayerAgeSvc2000200120022003200420052006
Byung-Hyun Kim211.000$762kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Travis Lee252.000$281kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Erubiel Durazo261.000$260kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Danny Klassen242.000$215kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Rod Barajas241.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jason Conti250.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Nelson Figueroa26–—
Vicente Padilla221.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Rob Ryan271.000—Pre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Geraldo Guzman27–—
Alex Cabrera28–—

Graphs

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR. Bars = Diamondbacks 2000; the black line = the league-average player at each slot that season. Staying above the line deep into the roster is the depth edge; dropping below it = holes & dead weight.

What each regime is worth — every settled team-season since 1985

RegimeSeasonsWin %Playoff %Pennant %WS %
WINDOW 28152.131.05.01.1
CONTEND 30056.964.719.710.3
FORCED-SPEND 25648.09.81.61.6
REBUILD 32143.31.20.30.3
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.