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GM: Walt Jocketty (since 2009)

2010 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+12.0
WAB — wins above budget
+16.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
91–71 (0.562)
record · made playoffs
+22M
surplus $M (value/$)
48.2
roster fWAR
$71.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joey Votto 26 arb 150 6.9 0.5 +15.4
Jay Bruce 23 pre-arb 148 5.1 0.4 +11.3
Scott Rolen 35 FA-elig 133 4.6 7.7 +2.9
Brandon Phillips 29 FA-elig 155 3.8 6.9 +1.8
Drew Stubbs 25 pre-arb 150 3.4 0.4 +7.4
Ryan Hanigan 29 arb 70 3.1 0.4 +6.8
Travis Wood 23 – 17 2.3 – –
Johnny Cueto 24 pre-arb 31 2.3 0.4 +4.9
Ramon Hernandez 34 FA-elig 97 2.1 3.9 +1.0
Homer Bailey 24 arb 19 1.8 0.4 +3.8
Mike Leake 22 – 28 1.7 – –
Laynce Nix 29 – 97 1.4 – –
Chris Heisey 25 – 97 1.3 – –
Bronson Arroyo 33 FA-elig 34 1.2 11.6 -8.8
Nick Masset 28 arb 82 0.9 1.0 +1.1
Paul Janish 27 pre-arb 82 0.9 0.4 +1.6
Arthur Rhodes 40 FA-elig 70 0.8 2.0 -0.1
Miguel Cairo 36 FA-elig 91 0.7 0.5 +1.2
Edinson Volquez 26 arb 12 0.7 0.4 +1.2
Orlando Cabrera 35 FA-elig 123 0.7 2.0 -0.5
Corky Miller 34 – 32 0.7 – –
Aroldis Chapman 22 pre-arb 15 0.6 1.0 +0.3
Aaron Harang 32 FA-elig 22 0.6 12.5 -11.2
Francisco Cordero 35 FA-elig 75 0.3 12.1 -11.4
Chris Valaika 24 – 19 0.2 – –
Matt Maloney 26 – 7 0.2 – –
Drew Sutton↔ CLE 27 – 2 0.2 – –
Bill Bray 27 – 35 0.2 – –
Daniel Herrera 25 pre-arb 36 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Juan Francisco 23 pre-arb 36 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Micah Owings 27 arb 27 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Enerio Del Rosario↔ HOU 24 – 9 0.0 – –
Jared Burton 29 arb 4 0.0 0.8 -0.7
Carlos Fisher 27 – 18 0.0 – –
Russ Springer 41 – 2 0.0 – –
Chris Dickerson↔ MIL 28 pre-arb 20 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Logan Ondrusek 25 pre-arb 60 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Jim Edmonds↔ MIL 40 FA-elig 13 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Mike Lincoln 35 FA-elig 19 -0.0 2.5 -2.6
Sam LeCure 26 – 15 -0.1 – –
Willie Bloomquist↔ KCR 32 FA-elig 11 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Jonny Gomes 29 FA-elig 148 -0.2 0.8 -1.2
Yonder Alonso 23 pre-arb 22 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Jordan Smith 24 – 37 -0.3 – –

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 30 of them (68%). 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.