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GM: Mike Hazen (since 2017)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+14.2
WAB — wins above budget
+13.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
93–69 (0.574)
record · made playoffs
+49M
surplus $M (value/$)
44.7
roster fWAR
$102.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Paul Goldschmidt 29 FA-elig 155 5.3 8.9 +9.2
Zack Greinke 33 FA-elig 33 5.3 34.0 -16.1
Robbie Ray 25 arb 28 3.7 0.6 +12.0
Patrick Corbin 27 arb 35 3.1 4.0 +6.6
Zack Godley 27 pre-arb 27 3.1 0.4 +10.0
Taijuan Walker 24 arb 28 2.8 2.2 +7.3
Jake Lamb 26 arb 149 2.7 0.6 +8.5
J.D. Martinez↔ DET 29 FA-elig 62 2.6 6.1 +2.6
Chris Iannetta 34 FA-elig 89 2.4 1.5 +6.5
Archie Bradley 24 pre-arb 63 2.1 0.5 +6.4
Brandon Drury 24 pre-arb 135 1.9 0.6 +5.9
AJ Pollock 29 arb 112 1.9 6.8 -0.5
David Peralta 29 arb 140 1.6 0.6 +4.7
Fernando Rodney 40 FA-elig 61 1.3 2.8 +1.8
Ketel Marte 23 pre-arb 73 1.1 0.3 +3.3
Randall Delgado 27 FA-elig 26 1.1 1.8 +1.8
Nick Ahmed 27 arb 53 0.9 0.6 +2.5
Jeremy Hazelbaker 29 pre-arb 41 0.7 1.1 +1.3
Andrew Chafin 27 arb 71 0.7 0.6 +1.7
Grégor Blanco 33 FA-elig 90 0.6 1.0 +1.0
Chris Owings 25 arb 97 0.6 2.3 -0.3
Jeff Mathis 34 FA-elig 60 0.5 2.0 -0.2
Shelby Miller 26 arb 4 0.5 4.7 -3.1
Anthony Banda 23 – 8 0.4 0.1 +1.3
James Sherfy 25 – 11 0.3 – –
Christian Walker 26 pre-arb 11 0.2 0.1 +0.7
T.J. McFarland 28 arb 43 0.2 0.7 -0.1
Daniel Descalso 30 FA-elig 131 0.1 1.4 -0.9
David Hernandez↔ ANA 32 FA-elig 26 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Ildemaro Vargas 25 – 12 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Matt Koch 26 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Jorge De La Rosa 36 FA-elig 66 -0.0 2.2 -2.3
Silvino Bracho 24 pre-arb 21 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
J.J. Hoover 29 arb 52 -0.0 0.9 -1.0
John Ryan Murphy 26 – 5 -0.0 – –
Rubby De La Rosa 28 – 9 -0.1 – –
Kristopher Negrón 31 – 14 -0.1 – –
Jack Reinheimer 24 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Yasmany Tomás 26 pre-arb 47 -0.2 9.5 -10.3
Tom Wilhelmsen 33 FA-elig 27 -0.2 1.2 -2.1
Braden Shipley 25 pre-arb 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Rey Fuentes 26 – 64 -0.4 – –
Adam Rosales↔ OAK 34 FA-elig 34 -0.4 0.4 -1.6
Jake Barrett 25 pre-arb 28 -0.4 0.5 -2.0
Chris Herrmann 29 arb 106 -0.9 0.9 -4.0

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (89%). 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.