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GM: Mike Hazen (since 2017)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.8
WAB — wins above budget
+12.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
89–73 (0.549)
record
+27M
surplus $M (value/$)
46.7
roster fWAR
$164.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ketel Marte 30 FA-elig 136 6.3 13.6 +12.7
Corbin Carroll 23 pre-arb 158 4.3 3.6 +14.5
Eugenio Suárez 32 FA-elig 158 3.9 11.3 +4.8
Brandon Pfaadt 25 pre-arb 32 3.1 0.8 +12.3
Christian Walker 33 FA-elig 130 3.1 10.9 +1.8
Joc Pederson 32 FA-elig 132 3.0 9.5 +3.0
Jake McCarthy 26 arb 142 3.0 0.8 +11.6
Zac Gallen 28 arb 28 2.8 10.0 +1.8
Gabriel Moreno 24 pre-arb 97 2.5 0.8 +9.8
Ryne Nelson 26 pre-arb 28 2.2 0.8 +8.2
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 30 FA-elig 133 2.1 10.0 -1.1
Geraldo Perdomo 24 arb 98 2.0 0.8 +7.7
Randal Grichuk 32 FA-elig 106 1.6 1.5 +5.2
Justin Martinez 22 pre-arb 64 1.4 0.7 +5.1
Kevin Newman 30 FA-elig 111 1.4 0.9 +4.8
Kevin Ginkel 30 arb 72 1.3 1.2 +4.0
Joe Mantiply 33 FA-elig 75 1.2 0.9 +4.0
A.J. Puk↔ MIA 29 arb 30 1.0 0.9 +3.4
Pavin Smith 28 arb 60 0.9 0.7 +3.0
Ryan Thompson 32 arb 67 0.9 1.4 +2.3
Adrian Del Castillo 24 – 25 0.7 – –
Merrill Kelly 35 arb 13 0.6 8.5 -5.8
Jordan Montgomery 31 FA-elig 25 0.6 25.0 -22.5
Paul Sewald 34 FA-elig 42 0.3 7.3 -5.9
Josh Bell↔ MIA 31 FA-elig 41 0.3 4.7 -3.4
Eduardo Rodriguez 31 FA-elig 10 0.3 14.0 -12.8
Jose Herrera 27 pre-arb 42 0.2 0.7 -0.0
Slade Cecconi 25 pre-arb 20 0.2 0.7 -0.0
Luis Guillorme↔ ANA 29 FA-elig 18 0.1 0.3 +0.3
Yilber Díaz 23 – 7 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Humberto Castellanos 26 arb 7 0.1 0.7 -0.3
Jorge Barrosa 23 pre-arb 8 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Logan Allen 27 pre-arb 12 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Matt Bowman↔ BAL 33 FA-elig 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Luis Frías↔ TOR 26 arb 7 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Thyago Vieira↔ BAL 31 FA-elig 11 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Blaze Alexander 25 pre-arb 61 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Kyle Nelson 27 arb 11 -0.1 0.8 -1.2
Joe Jacques↔ BOS 29 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.4 -0.8
Andrew Saalfrank 26 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Miguel Castro 29 FA-elig 11 -0.2 5.0 -5.7
Alek Thomas 24 pre-arb 39 -0.2 0.8 -1.5
Blake Walston 23 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.7 -1.5
Cristian Mena 21 – 1 -0.2 0.0 -1.0
Dylan Floro↔ WSN 33 FA-elig 15 -0.4 0.5 -2.2
Jace Peterson 34 FA-elig 14 -0.4 5.0 -6.8
Tommy Henry 26 pre-arb 9 -0.5 0.8 -2.7
Tucker Barnhart 33 – 31 -0.5 0.4 -2.5
Brandon Hughes 28 pre-arb 15 -0.5 0.7 -3.0
Bryce Jarvis 26 pre-arb 44 -0.6 0.7 -3.2
Scott McGough 34 FA-elig 26 -0.7 3.0 -5.8

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 50 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.