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GM: Walt Jocketty (since 2009)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-1.9
WAB — wins above budget
-5.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-13M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.2
roster fWAR
$77.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joey Votto 25 pre-arb 131 4.6 0.4 +10.4
Ryan Hanigan 28 pre-arb 90 2.8 0.4 +6.3
Brandon Phillips 28 FA-elig 153 2.7 5.2 +1.2
Aaron Harang 31 FA-elig 26 2.3 14.0 -8.5
Jay Bruce 22 pre-arb 101 1.8 0.4 +3.8
Chris Dickerson 27 pre-arb 97 1.6 0.4 +3.5
Drew Stubbs 24 pre-arb 42 1.4 0.4 +3.0
Johnny Cueto 23 pre-arb 30 1.3 0.4 +2.7
Francisco Cordero 34 FA-elig 68 1.3 12.1 -9.1
Nick Masset 27 arb 74 1.2 0.4 +2.5
Laynce Nix 28 – 116 1.2 – –
Bronson Arroyo 32 FA-elig 36 1.2 10.1 -7.4
Jonny Gomes 28 FA-elig 98 1.0 0.6 +1.7
Scott Rolen↔ TOR 34 FA-elig 40 1.0 3.6 -1.3
Arthur Rhodes 39 FA-elig 66 0.9 2.0 +0.0
Paul Janish 26 pre-arb 90 0.8 0.4 +1.5
Homer Bailey 23 pre-arb 22 0.7 0.4 +1.4
Wladimir Balentien↔ SEA 24 pre-arb 40 0.7 0.2 +1.6
Micah Owings 26 pre-arb 41 0.6 0.4 +1.1
Juan Francisco 22 pre-arb 14 0.5 0.4 +0.8
Jerry Hairston Jr.↔ NYY 33 FA-elig 86 0.3 1.3 -0.6
Daniel Herrera 24 pre-arb 70 0.3 0.4 +0.3
Josh Roenicke↔ TOR 26 pre-arb 11 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Jared Burton 28 pre-arb 53 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Corky Miller↔ CHW 33 FA-elig 21 0.2 0.3 +0.2
Carlos Fisher 26 pre-arb 39 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Matt Maloney 25 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Drew Sutton 26 pre-arb 42 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Willy Taveras 27 arb 102 0.1 2.2 -2.1
Wilkin Castillo 25 – 4 0.1 – –
Robert Manuel 25 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Edinson Volquez 25 arb 9 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Craig Tatum 26 pre-arb 26 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
Kevin Barker 33 – 29 -0.1 – –
Ramon Hernandez 33 FA-elig 81 -0.1 8.5 -8.7
Darnell McDonald 30 – 47 -0.1 – –
Kip Wells↔ WSN 32 – 10 -0.1 – –
Pedro Viola 26 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Ramon Ramirez 26 – 11 -0.1 – –
Adam Rosales 26 pre-arb 87 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Danny Richar 26 – 7 -0.3 – –
Edwin Encarnación↔ TOR 26 arb 43 -0.4 1.2 -2.1
David Weathers↔ MIL 39 FA-elig 43 -0.4 2.2 -3.2
Álex González↔ BOS 32 FA-elig 68 -0.6 3.3 -4.7
Justin Lehr 31 – 11 -0.7 – –
Mike Lincoln 34 FA-elig 19 -1.1 1.5 -4.0

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (83%). 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.