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GM: Joe Garagiola (since 1995)

2000 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-1.4
WAB — wins above budget
-0.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record
-29M
surplus $M (value/$)
37.7
roster fWAR
$76.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Randy Johnson 36 FA-elig 35 9.6 13.3 +0.2
Luis Gonzalez 32 FA-elig 162 4.7 3.3 +3.4
Steve Finley 35 FA-elig 152 3.3 5.4 -0.7
Curt Schilling↔ PHI 33 FA-elig 13 2.9 2.5 +1.6
Greg Colbrunn 30 FA-elig 116 2.4 1.0 +2.4
Damian Miller 30 arb 100 2.3 0.3 +3.0
Brian Anderson 28 FA-elig 37 2.0 2.2 +0.6
Armando Reynoso 34 FA-elig 31 1.8 3.4 -0.9
Craig Counsell 29 – 67 1.4 – –
Jay Bell 34 FA-elig 149 1.3 7.0 -5.2
Greg Swindell 35 FA-elig 64 1.1 1.8 -0.2
Vicente Padilla↔ PHI 22 – 27 1.1 – –
Todd Stottlemyre 35 FA-elig 18 1.1 8.0 -6.5
Byung-Hyun Kim 21 pre-arb 61 1.0 0.8 +0.7
Mike Morgan 40 – 60 1.0 – –
Danny Bautista↔ MIA 28 FA-elig 87 0.9 0.3 +1.0
Geraldo Guzman 27 – 13 0.7 – –
Matt Williams 34 FA-elig 96 0.6 8.5 -7.6
Alex Cabrera 28 – 31 0.5 – –
Dan Plesac 38 FA-elig 62 0.4 1.5 -1.0
Erubiel Durazo 26 pre-arb 67 0.3 0.3 +0.2
Matt Mantei 26 arb 47 0.3 2.8 -2.4
Travis Lee↔ PHI 25 pre-arb 72 0.3 0.3 +0.2
Omar Daal↔ PHI 28 FA-elig 20 0.2 3.5 -3.3
Jason Conti 25 – 47 0.2 – –
Kelly Stinnett 30 FA-elig 76 0.1 1.0 -0.9
Rob Ryan 27 – 27 0.0 – –
Matt Mieske↔ HOU 32 FA-elig 11 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Darren Holmes↔ BAL 34 FA-elig 8 0.0 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

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 30 of them (73%). 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.