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GM: Mike Hazen (since 2017)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.2
WAB — wins above budget
+3.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record
+1M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.2
roster fWAR
$118.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ketel Marte 25 arb 144 6.3 2.4 +18.4
Zack Greinke↔ HOU 35 FA-elig 26 4.6 24.9 -10.0
Nick Ahmed 29 arb 158 3.4 3.7 +7.5
Christian Walker 28 arb 152 3.0 0.6 +9.3
Eduardo Escobar 30 FA-elig 158 2.7 6.2 +2.8
Carson Kelly 24 arb 111 2.3 0.6 +7.0
Robbie Ray 27 arb 34 1.8 6.0 +0.0
Luke Weaver 25 arb 13 1.8 0.6 +5.2
David Peralta 31 arb 99 1.6 7.0 -1.8
Alex Avila 32 FA-elig 63 1.6 4.2 +0.8
Wilmer Flores 27 FA-elig 89 1.5 3.8 +1.1
Merrill Kelly 30 pre-arb 32 1.3 2.0 +2.3
Archie Bradley 26 arb 66 1.1 1.8 +1.8
Andrew Chafin 29 arb 77 1.0 1.9 +1.4
Tim Locastro 26 pre-arb 91 0.8 0.4 +2.2
Zac Gallen↔ MIA 23 – 8 0.7 0.1 +2.3
Jarrod Dyson 34 FA-elig 130 0.7 3.8 -1.6
Matt Andriese 29 arb 54 0.6 0.9 +1.1
Kevin Ginkel 25 – 25 0.5 0.2 +1.4
Yoshihisa Hirano 35 pre-arb 62 0.5 3.0 -1.5
Abraham Almonte 30 arb 17 0.4 0.1 +1.2
Ildemaro Vargas 27 pre-arb 92 0.4 0.6 +0.8
Jon Duplantier 24 – 15 0.3 0.3 +0.8
Alex Young 25 – 17 0.3 0.3 +0.8
Stefan Crichton 27 pre-arb 28 0.3 0.2 +0.9
Domingo Leyba 23 – 21 0.2 0.1 +0.5
John Ryan Murphy↔ ATL 28 FA-elig 25 0.1 0.9 -0.4
Jake Lamb 28 arb 78 0.1 4.8 -4.7
Taijuan Walker 26 FA-elig 1 0.0 5.0 -4.9
Kevin Cron 26 – 39 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Joel Payamps 25 – 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Caleb Joseph 33 arb 20 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
James Sherfy 27 – 17 -0.0 – –
Zack Godley↔ TOR 29 arb 27 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Robby Scott 29 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
T.J. McFarland 30 FA-elig 51 -0.1 1.4 -1.7
Josh Rojas 25 – 41 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Yasmany Tomás 28 arb 4 -0.2 15.5 -16.0
Greg Holland 33 FA-elig 40 -0.2 3.2 -3.8
Yoan López 26 pre-arb 70 -0.3 0.6 -1.7
Adam Jones 33 FA-elig 137 -0.4 3.0 -4.4
Mike Leake↔ SEA 31 FA-elig 10 -0.6 5.0 -6.8
Taylor Clarke 26 – 23 -0.6 0.4 -2.3
Matt Koch 28 arb 9 -0.6 0.6 -2.6
Blake Swihart↔ BOS 27 arb 31 -0.6 0.7 -2.7

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 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.