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GM: Jim Bowden (since 1993)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+18.1
WAB — wins above budget
+14.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
96–67 (0.589)
record
+20M
surplus $M (value/$)
44.5
roster fWAR
$34.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mike Cameron 26 arb 146 5.3 0.3 +6.4
Barry Larkin 35 FA-elig 161 5.1 5.3 +1.1
Pokey Reese 26 pre-arb 149 4.3 0.3 +5.1
Sean Casey 24 pre-arb 151 4.1 0.2 +4.9
Greg Vaughn 33 FA-elig 153 3.5 5.6 -1.2
Pete Harnisch 32 FA-elig 33 2.9 3.0 +0.7
Aaron Boone 26 pre-arb 139 2.4 0.2 +2.9
Jeffrey Hammonds 28 FA-elig 123 2.4 2.5 +0.5
Scott Williamson 23 pre-arb 62 2.0 0.2 +2.4
Dmitri Young 25 arb 127 2.0 0.4 +2.2
Ron Villone 29 – 29 2.0 – –
Brett Tomko 26 pre-arb 33 1.7 0.4 +1.7
Eddie Taubensee 30 FA-elig 126 1.6 1.2 +0.8
Steve Parris 31 arb 22 1.4 0.3 +1.5
Juan Guzman↔ BAL 32 FA-elig 12 1.3 1.9 -0.2
Michael Tucker 28 arb 133 1.0 1.6 -0.4
Dennys Reyes 22 pre-arb 65 0.8 0.2 +0.8
Danny Graves 25 arb 75 0.7 0.3 +0.6
Scott Sullivan 28 arb 79 0.5 0.3 +0.4
Mark Sweeney 29 arb 37 0.4 0.5 -0.0
Jason LaRue 25 pre-arb 36 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Denny Neagle 30 FA-elig 20 0.3 4.8 -4.4
Gabe White 27 arb 50 0.2 0.3 -0.1
Hal Morris 34 FA-elig 80 0.0 0.5 -0.4
B.J. Ryan↔ BAL 23 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Brian Johnson 31 arb 45 0.0 0.8 -0.8
Jason Bere↔ MIL 28 FA-elig 12 -0.1 0.8 -0.9
Kerry Robinson 25 – 9 -0.1 – –
Mark Lewis 29 FA-elig 88 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Rick Greene 28 – 1 -0.1 – –
Gookie Dawkins 20 – 7 -0.2 – –
John Hudek↔ ATL 32 arb 2 -0.2 0.1 -0.4
Steve Avery 29 FA-elig 19 -0.3 0.8 -1.1
Chris Stynes 26 arb 73 -0.3 0.3 -0.6
Stan Belinda 32 FA-elig 29 -0.3 0.8 -1.3

35 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 31 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 CIN
Brandon Phillips200630.1
Aaron Harang200319.3
Sean Casey199815.9
Luis Castillo201713.9
Ken Griffey200010.6
Anthony DeSclafani20148.2
Dmitri Young19977.5
Norm Charlton19867.3
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Paul Konerko199824.5
Mike Cameron200019.8
Charlie Leibrandt198316.8
Jeff Montgomery198812.0
Dave Burba199811.7
Luis Castillo20228.7
John Franco19898.7
Brad Keller20177.9
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.