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GM: Joe Garagiola (since 1995)

2002 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.1
WAB — wins above budget
+8.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
98–64 (0.605)
record · made playoffs
-22M
surplus $M (value/$)
48.7
roster fWAR
$103.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Curt Schilling 35 FA-elig 36 9.3 10.0 +6.0
Randy Johnson 38 FA-elig 35 7.9 13.3 +0.2
Luis Gonzalez 34 FA-elig 148 5.2 4.3 +4.6
Junior Spivey 27 pre-arb 143 4.3 0.2 +7.2
Steve Finley 37 FA-elig 150 4.2 5.4 +1.8
Miguel Batista 31 FA-elig 36 3.2 2.1 +3.4
Byung-Hyun Kim 23 arb 72 2.5 0.8 +3.5
Quinton McCracken 31 FA-elig 123 2.3 0.5 +3.4
Craig Counsell 31 FA-elig 112 1.9 1.5 +1.8
Erubiel Durazo 28 arb 76 1.7 0.4 +2.5
Damian Miller 32 arb 101 1.6 2.6 +0.0
Brian Anderson 30 FA-elig 37 1.4 5.4 -2.9
Rick Helling 31 FA-elig 30 1.4 3.0 -0.7
Greg Colbrunn 32 FA-elig 72 1.4 1.8 +0.5
Mike Koplove 25 – 55 1.0 – –
Chad Moeller 27 pre-arb 37 0.8 0.2 +1.2
Tony Womack 32 FA-elig 153 0.7 4.5 -3.3
Matt Williams 36 FA-elig 60 0.4 9.5 -8.9
Danny Bautista 30 FA-elig 40 0.3 2.0 -1.6
Mike Myers 33 FA-elig 69 0.3 1.5 -1.1
John Patterson 24 – 7 0.2 – –
Felix Jose 37 – 13 0.1 – –
Matt Mantei 28 FA-elig 31 0.1 4.3 -4.1
Mike Fetters↔ PIT 37 FA-elig 33 0.1 1.2 -0.9
Mark Little↔ COL 29 arb 15 0.1 0.0 +0.1
Jose Parra 29 – 16 0.0 – –
Armando Reynoso 36 FA-elig 2 0.0 4.1 -4.1
Alex Cintron 23 – 38 0.0 – –
Todd Stottlemyre 37 FA-elig 5 -0.0 8.0 -8.0
Danny Klassen 26 arb 4 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Bret Prinz 25 pre-arb 20 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Jay Bell 36 FA-elig 32 -0.1 8.0 -8.1
Chris Donnels 36 FA-elig 74 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Duaner Sanchez↔ PIT 22 – 6 -0.1 – –
Lyle Overbay 25 – 10 -0.2 – –
Rod Barajas 26 arb 70 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Greg Swindell 37 FA-elig 34 -0.3 2.8 -3.3
Mark Grace 38 FA-elig 124 -0.3 3.0 -3.5
David Dellucci 28 arb 97 -0.3 0.8 -1.4
Mike Morgan 42 FA-elig 29 -0.4 0.8 -1.5
Eddie Oropesa 30 pre-arb 32 -0.6 0.3 -1.4
Jose Guillen↔ CIN 26 arb 54 -1.1 0.3 -2.2

42 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (83%). 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.