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GM: Kevin Towers (since 2011)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+2.8
WAB — wins above budget
+6.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
81–81 (0.500)
record
+21M
surplus $M (value/$)
37.0
roster fWAR
$74.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Miguel Montero 28 FA-elig 141 5.4 5.9 +7.9
Aaron Hill 30 FA-elig 156 5.0 5.5 +7.4
Wade Miley 25 pre-arb 32 4.1 0.5 +10.0
Paul Goldschmidt 24 pre-arb 145 2.8 0.5 +6.6
Justin Upton 24 arb 150 2.6 6.8 -0.2
Ian Kennedy 27 arb 33 2.5 0.5 +6.0
Trevor Cahill 24 arb 32 2.1 3.5 +2.0
David Hernandez 27 arb 72 2.1 0.5 +4.8
Chris Young 28 FA-elig 101 1.8 7.0 -2.3
Jason Kubel 30 FA-elig 141 1.5 7.5 -3.6
Gerardo Parra 25 arb 133 1.5 0.5 +3.4
J.J. Putz 35 FA-elig 57 1.4 4.5 -0.8
Joe Saunders↔ BAL 31 FA-elig 21 1.1 4.5 -1.6
Cody Ransom↔ MIL 36 arb 26 1.0 0.1 +2.3
Patrick Corbin 22 – 22 0.9 0.3 +2.1
Adam Eaton 23 – 22 0.8 0.5 +1.6
Chris Johnson↔ HOU 27 arb 44 0.7 0.2 +1.7
Josh Collmenter 26 pre-arb 28 0.6 0.5 +1.1
Willie Bloomquist 34 FA-elig 80 0.6 1.9 -0.3
Brad Ziegler 32 arb 77 0.6 1.8 -0.2
John McDonald 37 FA-elig 70 0.5 1.5 -0.2
Matt Lindstrom↔ BAL 32 arb 12 0.3 0.9 -0.3
Craig Breslow↔ BOS 31 FA-elig 40 0.2 1.1 -0.7
Wil Nieves↔ COL 34 arb 16 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Brad Bergesen 26 – 19 0.1 – –
Daniel Hudson 25 arb 9 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Lyle Overbay↔ ATL 35 FA-elig 45 0.1 0.7 -0.5
Bryan Shaw 24 pre-arb 64 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Ryan Roberts↔ TBR 31 FA-elig 83 0.0 1.2 -1.1
Joe Martinez 29 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.5 -0.4
AJ Pollock 24 – 31 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Sam Demel 26 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Matt Albers↔ BOS 29 FA-elig 23 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Jonathan Albaladejo 29 arb 3 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Mike Jacobs 31 – 13 -0.1 – –
Tyler Graham 28 – 10 -0.1 – –
Konrad Schmidt 27 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Trevor Bauer 21 pre-arb 4 -0.1 1.2 -1.5
Henry Blanco 40 FA-elig 21 -0.1 1.2 -1.5
Stephen Drew↔ OAK 29 FA-elig 40 -0.2 3.9 -4.5
Mike Zagurski 29 pre-arb 45 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Geoff Blum 39 FA-elig 17 -0.3 1.4 -2.0
Tyler Skaggs 20 – 6 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Joe Paterson 26 pre-arb 6 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Takashi Saito 42 FA-elig 16 -0.3 1.8 -2.5
Ryan Wheeler 23 pre-arb 50 -0.4 0.5 -1.5
Jake Elmore 25 – 30 -0.5 0.5 -1.8
Josh Bell 25 pre-arb 21 -0.5 0.5 -1.8

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 of them (94%). 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.