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GM: Jim Bowden (since 1993)

2002 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.1
WAB — wins above budget
-2.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-10M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.9
roster fWAR
$47.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Austin Kearns 22 – 107 5.0 – –
Adam Dunn 22 pre-arb 158 4.1 0.2 +6.8
Aaron Boone 29 arb 162 2.8 2.1 +2.7
Todd Walker 29 FA-elig 155 2.2 2.0 +1.8
Jimmy Haynes 29 FA-elig 36 2.1 0.5 +3.1
Joey Hamilton 31 FA-elig 39 1.8 0.5 +2.5
Elmer Dessens 31 FA-elig 31 1.8 1.8 +1.2
Scott Williamson 26 arb 63 1.4 0.4 +2.0
Jason LaRue 28 arb 113 1.4 0.3 +2.1
Gabe White 30 FA-elig 62 1.3 2.5 -0.3
Danny Graves 28 FA-elig 69 1.2 3.5 -1.5
Juan Encarnacion↔ MIA 26 arb 83 1.1 0.8 +1.0
Chris Reitsma 24 pre-arb 32 1.0 0.3 +1.5
Russell Branyan↔ CLE 26 arb 84 0.7 0.2 +1.1
Corky Miller 26 – 39 0.6 – –
Jared Fernandez 30 – 14 0.6 – –
Sean Casey 27 arb 120 0.5 4.0 -3.1
Ryan Dempster↔ MIA 25 arb 17 0.4 1.2 -0.5
Reggie Taylor 25 pre-arb 135 0.4 0.2 +0.4
Jim Brower↔ WSN 29 arb 22 0.4 0.1 +0.5
Brandon Larson 26 – 23 0.3 – –
Kelly Stinnett 32 FA-elig 34 0.3 1.0 -0.5
Ken Griffey Jr. 32 FA-elig 70 0.2 8.6 -8.2
Shawn Estes↔ NYM 29 FA-elig 6 0.1 1.2 -1.0
John Riedling 26 pre-arb 33 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Carlos Almánzar 28 – 9 0.1 – –
Jose Rijo 37 FA-elig 31 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Juan Castro 30 FA-elig 54 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Wily Mo Peña 20 – 13 -0.0 – –
Raul Gonzalez↔ NYM 28 – 10 -0.0 – –
Luke Hudson 25 – 3 -0.1 – –
Barry Larkin 38 FA-elig 145 -0.1 9.0 -9.2
Bruce Chen↔ NYM 25 arb 39 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Brian Moehler↔ DET 30 FA-elig 10 -0.2 1.8 -2.1
Scott Sullivan 31 FA-elig 71 -0.2 2.2 -2.5
Ruben Mateo 24 – 46 -0.2 – –
Luis Pineda 27 pre-arb 26 -0.2 0.2 -0.6
Jose Silva 28 FA-elig 12 -0.3 0.7 -1.1
Wilton Guerrero↔ WSN 27 FA-elig 59 -0.4 0.5 -1.2
Jose Acevedo 24 pre-arb 6 -0.4 0.2 -1.0
Jose Guillen↔ ARI 26 arb 31 -0.4 0.2 -0.9
Gookie Dawkins 23 – 31 -0.6 – –
Brady Clark↔ NYM 29 pre-arb 51 -0.9 0.2 -1.7

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 33 of them (77%). 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.