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GM: Dave Stewart (since 2015)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.3
WAB — wins above budget
+5.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
79–83 (0.488)
record
+38M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.1
roster fWAR
$64.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Paul Goldschmidt 27 arb 159 7.2 3.1 +19.7
AJ Pollock 27 arb 157 6.8 0.5 +20.8
David Peralta 27 pre-arb 149 3.9 1.0 +11.3
Ender Inciarte 24 pre-arb 132 2.4 0.5 +7.1
Robbie Ray 23 pre-arb 23 2.2 0.3 +6.5
Patrick Corbin 25 arb 16 1.7 0.5 +4.8
Chase Anderson 27 pre-arb 28 1.5 0.5 +4.3
Jake Lamb 24 pre-arb 107 1.4 0.5 +4.0
Jeremy Hellickson 28 arb 29 1.3 4.3 -0.1
Welington Castillo↔ CHC 28 arb 80 1.1 1.5 +2.0
Nick Ahmed 25 pre-arb 134 1.0 0.5 +2.5
Daniel Hudson 28 FA-elig 64 0.8 0.8 +1.7
Andrew Chafin 25 pre-arb 66 0.8 0.5 +2.0
Phil Gosselin↔ ATL 26 pre-arb 24 0.7 0.3 +2.0
Brad Ziegler 35 FA-elig 66 0.7 5.0 -2.8
Addison Reed↔ NYM 26 arb 38 0.7 3.4 -1.3
Mark Trumbo↔ SEA 29 arb 46 0.6 2.2 -0.4
Randall Delgado 25 arb 64 0.6 0.5 +1.2
Josh Collmenter 29 arb 44 0.5 1.4 +0.2
Sócrates Brito 22 – 18 0.5 0.1 +1.4
Enrique Burgos 24 – 30 0.5 0.2 +1.3
Jarrod Saltalamacchia↔ MIA 30 FA-elig 70 0.4 6.2 -4.8
Oliver Pérez↔ HOU 33 FA-elig 48 0.4 1.7 -0.5
Vidal Nuño↔ SEA 27 – 3 0.3 0.0 +0.8
JC Ramírez↔ SEA 26 – 12 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Rubby De La Rosa 26 arb 32 0.2 0.5 -0.0
Zack Godley 25 – 9 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Peter O'Brien 24 – 8 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Silvino Bracho 22 – 13 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Jamie Romak 29 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Jhoulys Chacín 27 arb 5 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Matt Stites 25 pre-arb 11 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Gerald Laird 35 FA-elig 1 -0.1 1.0 -1.2
Archie Bradley 22 – 8 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Dominic Leone↔ SEA 23 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Aaron Hill 33 FA-elig 116 -0.1 12.0 -12.4
David Hernandez 30 FA-elig 40 -0.1 2.0 -2.4
A.J. Schugel 26 – 5 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Tuffy Gosewisch 31 pre-arb 38 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Óscar Hernández 21 – 18 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Keith Hessler 26 pre-arb 18 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Brandon Drury 22 – 20 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Jordan Pacheco 29 arb 29 -0.3 0.9 -1.8
Danny Dorn 30 – 23 -0.3 – –
Evan Marshall 25 pre-arb 13 -0.3 0.5 -1.6
Cliff Pennington↔ TOR 31 FA-elig 72 -0.4 2.2 -3.5
Matt Reynolds 30 arb 18 -0.7 0.6 -2.9
Allen Webster 25 pre-arb 9 -1.0 0.1 -3.2
Yasmany Tomás 24 pre-arb 118 -1.1 5.5 -8.9
Chris Owings 23 pre-arb 147 -1.1 0.5 -3.9

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 49 of them (98%). 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.