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GM: Walt Jocketty (since 2009)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.5
WAB — wins above budget
+3.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
79–83 (0.488)
record
+8M
surplus $M (value/$)
35.6
roster fWAR
$78.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joey Votto 27 arb 161 6.4 7.4 +8.2
Brandon Phillips 30 FA-elig 150 5.4 11.4 +1.7
Ryan Hanigan 30 arb 91 3.7 0.6 +8.5
Jay Bruce 24 arb 157 2.9 2.8 +4.3
Johnny Cueto 25 arb 24 2.6 3.4 +3.0
Drew Stubbs 26 pre-arb 158 2.2 0.5 +4.9
Homer Bailey 25 arb 23 1.7 0.4 +3.8
Miguel Cairo 37 FA-elig 102 1.7 1.0 +3.1
Dontrelle Willis 29 FA-elig 16 1.7 0.4 +3.6
Mike Leake 23 pre-arb 38 1.6 0.4 +3.4
Chris Heisey 26 pre-arb 120 1.5 0.4 +3.3
Scott Rolen 36 FA-elig 65 1.1 8.2 -5.5
Ramon Hernandez 35 FA-elig 91 0.9 2.9 -0.7
Travis Wood 24 pre-arb 26 0.9 0.4 +1.8
Jonny Gomes↔ WSN 30 FA-elig 77 0.9 1.1 +1.0
Todd Frazier 25 – 41 0.7 0.4 +1.3
Zack Cozart 25 – 11 0.7 0.4 +1.3
Edgar Renteria 34 FA-elig 96 0.7 2.1 -0.5
Bill Bray 28 arb 79 0.6 0.6 +0.8
Yonder Alonso 24 pre-arb 47 0.5 0.6 +0.6
Aroldis Chapman 23 pre-arb 54 0.5 3.8 -2.7
Sam LeCure 27 pre-arb 43 0.4 0.4 +0.7
Nick Masset 29 arb 75 0.4 1.7 -0.8
Dave Sappelt 24 – 38 0.3 – –
Chris Valaika 25 pre-arb 14 0.3 0.4 +0.2
Fred Lewis 30 arb 81 0.2 0.9 -0.5
Juan Francisco 24 pre-arb 31 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Francisco Cordero 36 FA-elig 68 0.1 12.1 -12.0
Jeremy Horst 25 – 12 0.0 – –
Jose Arredondo 27 arb 53 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Jared Burton 30 arb 6 -0.1 0.8 -0.9
Carlos Fisher 28 pre-arb 17 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Daryl Thompson 25 – 1 -0.1 – –
Jeremy Hermida↔ SDP 27 – 10 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Logan Ondrusek 26 pre-arb 66 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Jordan Smith 25 pre-arb 17 -0.2 0.4 -1.0
Chad Reineke 29 – 2 -0.3 – –
Devin Mesoraco 23 – 18 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
Edinson Volquez 27 FA-elig 21 -0.4 1.6 -2.7
Matt Maloney 27 pre-arb 8 -0.5 0.4 -1.5
Paul Janish 28 arb 114 -0.6 0.4 -1.9
Bronson Arroyo 34 FA-elig 36 -1.9 7.7 -12.2

42 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (90%). 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.