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GM: Josh Byrnes (since 2006)

2008 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+2.6
WAB — wins above budget
+1.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
82–80 (0.506)
record
+1M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.9
roster fWAR
$71.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Dan Haren 27 arb 34 6.5 4.0 +10.7
Brandon Webb 29 arb 34 5.4 5.5 +6.6
Randy Johnson 44 FA-elig 30 3.6 15.1 -7.1
Conor Jackson 26 arb 144 2.9 0.4 +6.0
Chris Young 24 pre-arb 160 2.3 0.4 +4.7
Chris Snyder 27 arb 115 2.1 1.9 +2.9
Doug Davis 32 FA-elig 26 1.9 7.8 -3.4
Stephen Drew 25 pre-arb 152 1.9 1.5 +2.8
Chad Qualls 29 arb 77 1.8 1.3 +2.7
Micah Owings↔ CIN 25 pre-arb 36 1.8 0.4 +3.6
Orlando Hudson 30 FA-elig 107 1.3 6.2 -3.3
Mark Reynolds 24 pre-arb 152 1.3 0.4 +2.4
Miguel Montero 24 pre-arb 70 1.1 0.4 +2.2
Ramon Pena 26 pre-arb 72 1.0 0.4 +1.9
Max Scherzer 23 – 17 0.9 – –
Brandon Lyon 28 FA-elig 61 0.7 3.1 -1.5
Justin Upton 20 pre-arb 108 0.6 0.4 +0.9
Juan Cruz 29 FA-elig 57 0.5 1.9 -0.8
Augie Ojeda 33 FA-elig 105 0.4 0.6 +0.3
Josh Whitesell 26 – 7 0.1 – –
Leo Rosales 27 – 27 0.1 – –
Jailen Peguero 27 – 7 0.1 – –
Wilfredo Ledezma↔ SDP 27 arb 3 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Adam Dunn↔ CIN 28 FA-elig 44 -0.1 3.6 -3.8
Connor Robertson 26 – 6 -0.1 – –
Billy Buckner 24 – 10 -0.1 – –
Brandon Medders 28 arb 18 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Robby Hammock 31 arb 18 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Yusmeiro Petit 23 pre-arb 19 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Emilio Bonifácio↔ WSN 23 – 8 -0.1 – –
Edgar Gonzalez 25 arb 17 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
David Eckstein↔ TOR 33 FA-elig 18 -0.2 0.9 -1.3
Tony Clark↔ SDP 36 FA-elig 38 -0.2 0.3 -0.7
Doug Slaten 28 pre-arb 45 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Jeff Salazar 27 pre-arb 90 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Jamie D'Antona 26 – 18 -0.3 – –
Chris Burke 28 arb 86 -0.3 1.0 -1.6
Jon Rauch↔ WSN 29 FA-elig 26 -0.4 0.4 -1.2
Chad Tracy 28 arb 88 -0.6 4.0 -5.4
Eric Byrnes 32 FA-elig 52 -1.0 6.7 -9.0
Alex Romero 24 pre-arb 78 -1.1 0.4 -2.8

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 33 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.