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GM: Josh Byrnes (since 2006)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-9.3
WAB — wins above budget
-0.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
70–92 (0.432)
record
+2M
surplus $M (value/$)
31.5
roster fWAR
$73.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Dan Haren 28 FA-elig 37 6.0 7.5 +6.8
Justin Upton 21 pre-arb 138 4.9 0.4 +11.2
Miguel Montero 25 arb 128 4.8 0.4 +10.9
Mark Reynolds 25 pre-arb 155 3.3 0.4 +7.4
Max Scherzer 24 pre-arb 31 3.1 1.4 +5.8
Stephen Drew 26 arb 135 2.1 1.5 +3.4
Ryan Roberts 28 arb 110 1.8 0.4 +3.9
Felipe Lopez↔ MIL 29 FA-elig 85 1.5 2.0 +1.5
Augie Ojeda 34 FA-elig 103 1.4 0.7 +2.6
Juan Gutierrez 25 pre-arb 65 1.2 0.4 +2.5
Doug Davis 33 FA-elig 34 1.0 8.8 -6.4
Jon Garland↔ LAD 29 FA-elig 28 0.9 5.1 -3.0
Chad Qualls 30 arb 51 0.9 2.5 -0.4
Billy Buckner 25 pre-arb 16 0.7 0.4 +1.1
Rusty Ryal 26 – 30 0.6 – –
Chris Young 25 arb 134 0.4 1.9 -1.0
Jon Rauch↔ MIN 30 FA-elig 58 0.4 2.0 -1.0
Eric Byrnes 33 FA-elig 84 0.3 11.7 -10.9
Chris Snyder 28 arb 61 0.3 2.0 -1.3
Blaine Boyer↔ ATL 27 arb 30 0.3 0.3 +0.4
Clay Zavada 25 pre-arb 49 0.3 0.4 +0.2
Ramon Pena↔ CHW 27 arb 37 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Leo Rosales 28 pre-arb 33 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Trent Oeltjen 26 – 24 0.1 – –
Esmerling Vasquez 25 pre-arb 53 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Daniel Schlereth 23 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Josh Wilson↔ SDP 28 – 11 0.0 – –
Daniel Cabrera↔ WSN 28 arb 6 0.0 1.0 -1.0
Bobby Korecky 29 – 5 0.0 – –
Doug Slaten 29 arb 11 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Bryan Augenstein 22 – 7 -0.0 – –
Tom Gordon 41 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Tony Clark 37 FA-elig 36 -0.1 0.8 -1.1
Luke Carlin 28 – 10 -0.2 – –
John Hester 25 – 15 -0.2 – –
Alex Romero 25 – 66 -0.2 – –
Yusmeiro Petit 24 arb 23 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Gerardo Parra 22 – 120 -0.2 – –
Brandon Webb 30 FA-elig 1 -0.2 6.5 -7.0
Kevin Mulvey↔ MIN 24 – 6 -0.2 – –
Josh Whitesell 27 pre-arb 46 -0.5 0.4 -1.5
Brandon Allen 23 pre-arb 32 -0.7 0.4 -2.1
Scott Schoeneweis 35 FA-elig 45 -0.8 3.6 -5.4
Chad Tracy 29 arb 98 -0.8 5.0 -6.9
Conor Jackson 27 arb 30 -0.9 3.0 -5.2

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (78%). 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.