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GM: Mike Hazen (since 2017)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.3
WAB — wins above budget
-1.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
82–80 (0.506)
record
-19M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.2
roster fWAR
$127.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Patrick Corbin 28 FA-elig 33 6.1 7.5 +13.2
Paul Goldschmidt 30 FA-elig 158 4.6 11.1 +4.6
Nick Ahmed 28 arb 153 4.0 1.3 +12.5
David Peralta 30 arb 146 3.8 3.3 +9.6
Zack Greinke 34 FA-elig 34 3.4 34.0 -22.3
Ketel Marte 24 arb 153 3.0 1.4 +8.8
AJ Pollock 30 FA-elig 113 2.5 7.8 +0.9
Zack Godley 28 arb 33 2.0 0.6 +6.4
Clay Buchholz 33 FA-elig 17 1.5 1.1 +4.0
Jeff Mathis 35 FA-elig 69 1.0 2.0 +1.4
Andrew Chafin 28 arb 77 0.9 1.2 +1.8
Alex Avila 31 FA-elig 80 0.9 4.0 -1.1
John Ryan Murphy 27 arb 87 0.8 0.6 +2.2
Daniel Descalso 31 FA-elig 138 0.6 2.0 +0.1
Eduardo Escobar↔ MIN 29 FA-elig 54 0.6 1.7 +0.4
Robbie Ray 26 arb 25 0.6 4.0 -2.0
Silvino Bracho 25 pre-arb 31 0.4 0.2 +1.1
Archie Bradley 25 arb 76 0.3 0.6 +0.4
Yoshihisa Hirano 34 pre-arb 75 0.2 3.0 -2.2
Jake Lamb 27 arb 56 0.2 4.3 -3.6
T.J. McFarland 29 arb 47 0.2 0.8 -0.2
Patrick Kivlehan 28 – 9 0.1 – –
Brad Ziegler↔ MIA 38 FA-elig 29 0.1 3.2 -2.9
Taijuan Walker 25 arb 3 0.1 4.8 -4.6
Kris Medlen 32 FA-elig 1 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Ildemaro Vargas 26 pre-arb 14 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Yoan López 25 – 10 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Kristopher Negrón↔ SEA 32 – 2 0.0 – –
James Sherfy 26 – 15 -0.0 – –
Braden Shipley 26 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Joey Krehbiel 25 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Jake Barrett 26 pre-arb 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Chris Stewart↔ ATL 36 FA-elig 3 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Troy Scribner 26 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Steven Souza Jr. 29 arb 72 -0.1 3.5 -3.9
Fernando Salas 33 FA-elig 41 -0.1 1.5 -2.0
Christian Walker 27 pre-arb 37 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
Jake Diekman↔ TEX 31 FA-elig 24 -0.2 0.9 -1.5
Jarrod Dyson 33 FA-elig 67 -0.2 3.8 -4.3
Shelby Miller 27 FA-elig 5 -0.3 4.9 -5.9
Randall Delgado 28 FA-elig 10 -0.3 2.2 -3.3
Deven Marrero 27 arb 49 -0.4 0.6 -1.8
Sócrates Brito 25 pre-arb 24 -0.4 0.1 -1.5
Brad Boxberger 30 FA-elig 60 -0.4 1.9 -3.2
Jon Jay↔ KCR 33 FA-elig 84 -0.5 1.8 -3.5
Jorge De La Rosa↔ CHC 37 FA-elig 43 -0.5 1.6 -3.5
Matt Andriese↔ TBR 28 pre-arb 14 -0.6 0.2 -2.3
Chris Owings 26 arb 106 -0.7 3.4 -5.7
Matt Koch 27 pre-arb 19 -0.8 0.3 -3.2

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 46 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.