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GM: Dave Stewart (since 2015)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-8.3
WAB — wins above budget
-2.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
69–93 (0.426)
record
+0M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.2
roster fWAR
$87.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jean Segura 26 arb 153 6.1 2.6 +17.3
Paul Goldschmidt 28 arb 158 4.4 5.9 +8.3
Jake Lamb 25 pre-arb 151 3.7 0.5 +11.6
Robbie Ray 24 pre-arb 32 3.5 0.5 +10.8
Zack Greinke 32 FA-elig 27 2.6 34.0 -25.7
Archie Bradley 23 pre-arb 26 1.6 0.4 +4.7
Welington Castillo 29 FA-elig 113 1.4 3.7 +0.9
Patrick Corbin 26 arb 38 1.3 2.5 +1.7
Chris Owings 24 arb 119 0.9 0.5 +2.5
Daniel Hudson 29 FA-elig 70 0.7 2.7 -0.4
Chris Herrmann 28 arb 56 0.7 0.5 +1.7
Nick Ahmed 26 pre-arb 90 0.6 0.5 +1.6
Brandon Drury 23 pre-arb 134 0.6 0.5 +1.4
Brad Ziegler↔ BOS 36 FA-elig 36 0.6 2.9 -1.0
Andrew Chafin 26 pre-arb 32 0.4 0.5 +0.9
Tyler Wagner 25 pre-arb 3 0.4 0.0 +1.2
AJ Pollock 28 arb 12 0.4 3.5 -2.3
Rubby De La Rosa 27 arb 13 0.4 2.4 -1.2
David Peralta 28 pre-arb 48 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Phil Gosselin 27 arb 122 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Jake Barrett 24 pre-arb 68 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Randall Delgado 26 arb 79 0.3 1.3 -0.4
Matt Koch 25 – 7 0.3 0.1 +0.8
Tyler Clippard↔ NYY 31 FA-elig 40 0.2 3.5 -2.9
Steve Hathaway 25 pre-arb 24 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Shelby Miller 25 arb 21 0.2 4.3 -3.8
Mitch Haniger 25 – 34 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Enrique Burgos 25 pre-arb 43 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Rickie Weeks Jr. 33 – 108 0.1 – –
Kyle Jensen 28 – 17 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Óscar Hernández 22 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Keith Hessler↔ SDP 27 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Kyle Drabek 28 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Zack Godley 26 pre-arb 27 -0.1 0.3 -0.4
Matt Buschmann 32 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Jose Campos 23 – 1 -0.1 – –
Evan Marshall 26 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Mike Freeman↔ SEA 28 – 8 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Adam Loewen 32 arb 8 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Michael Bourn↔ BAL 33 – 89 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Sócrates Brito 23 pre-arb 40 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Josh Collmenter↔ ATL 30 arb 15 -0.2 1.5 -2.3
Zac Curtis 23 pre-arb 21 -0.4 0.2 -1.3
Dominic Leone 24 pre-arb 25 -0.4 0.2 -1.6
Edwin Escobar 24 pre-arb 25 -0.4 0.2 -1.5
Braden Shipley 24 – 14 -0.5 0.2 -1.7
Yasmany Tomás 25 pre-arb 140 -0.5 7.5 -9.3
Silvino Bracho 23 pre-arb 26 -0.6 0.5 -2.3
Tuffy Gosewisch 32 pre-arb 33 -0.6 0.3 -2.2
Peter O'Brien 25 pre-arb 28 -0.7 0.2 -2.5

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 of them (96%). 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.