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GM: Kevin Towers (since 2011)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.0
WAB — wins above budget
-3.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
81–81 (0.500)
record
-11M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.5
roster fWAR
$88.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Paul Goldschmidt 25 pre-arb 160 6.0 0.5 +15.6
Patrick Corbin 23 pre-arb 33 3.3 0.5 +8.4
Gerardo Parra 26 arb 156 3.3 2.4 +6.5
AJ Pollock 25 pre-arb 137 2.3 0.5 +5.6
Aaron Hill 31 FA-elig 87 2.0 5.5 -0.3
Wade Miley 26 pre-arb 34 1.7 0.5 +4.0
Miguel Montero 29 FA-elig 116 1.7 10.0 -5.5
Cody Ross 32 FA-elig 94 1.6 6.0 -1.7
Didi Gregorius 23 pre-arb 103 1.5 0.5 +3.5
Brandon McCarthy 29 FA-elig 22 1.3 5.2 -1.8
Martín Prado 29 FA-elig 155 1.2 7.0 -3.7
Eric Chavez 35 FA-elig 80 1.0 3.0 -0.3
Josh Collmenter 27 pre-arb 49 0.9 0.5 +1.9
Will Harris 28 pre-arb 61 0.8 0.4 +1.7
Brad Ziegler 33 arb 78 0.5 3.1 -1.9
Ian Kennedy↔ SDP 28 FA-elig 22 0.4 2.9 -1.8
Wil Nieves 35 FA-elig 71 0.4 0.8 +0.3
Matt Reynolds 28 arb 30 0.4 0.5 +0.5
Trevor Cahill 25 arb 26 0.4 5.5 -4.5
Cliff Pennington 29 arb 96 0.4 1.8 -0.7
Matt Davidson 22 – 31 0.3 0.1 +0.8
Adam Eaton 24 pre-arb 66 0.3 0.5 +0.3
Willie Bloomquist 35 FA-elig 48 0.3 1.9 -1.1
Tony Campana 27 pre-arb 29 0.3 0.5 +0.2
Chris Owings 21 – 20 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Randall Delgado 23 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Charles Brewer 25 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.0 +0.2
J.J. Putz 36 FA-elig 40 0.1 6.5 -6.4
Tyler Skaggs 21 pre-arb 7 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Joe Paterson 27 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
David Holmberg 21 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Matt Langwell↔ CLE 27 – 8 -0.1 – –
Josh Wilson 32 FA-elig 30 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Heath Bell 35 FA-elig 69 -0.1 9.0 -9.4
Joe Thatcher↔ SDP 31 FA-elig 22 -0.1 0.4 -0.8
Chaz Roe 26 – 21 -0.2 0.1 -0.5
Eric Hinske 35 FA-elig 52 -0.2 1.4 -1.9
Zeke Spruill 23 – 6 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Tony Sipp 29 arb 56 -0.3 1.3 -2.0
David Hernandez 28 arb 62 -0.3 1.2 -2.2
Tuffy Gosewisch 29 – 14 -0.4 0.1 -1.1
Alfredo Marte 24 pre-arb 22 -0.4 0.5 -1.5
Eury De La Rosa 23 – 19 -0.4 – –
Jason Kubel↔ CLE 31 FA-elig 89 -1.1 6.9 -9.9

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 of them (95%). 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.