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GM: Walt Jocketty (since 2009)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+18.5
WAB — wins above budget
+11.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
97–65 (0.599)
record · made playoffs
+33M
surplus $M (value/$)
42.1
roster fWAR
$76.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joey Votto 28 arb 111 5.3 9.5 +4.3
Johnny Cueto 26 arb 33 3.8 5.4 +4.5
Ryan Hanigan 31 arb 112 3.7 1.2 +8.2
Brandon Phillips 31 FA-elig 147 3.3 12.0 -3.5
Aroldis Chapman 24 pre-arb 68 3.2 2.0 +6.2
Mat Latos 24 arb 33 3.1 0.6 +7.5
Ryan Ludwick 33 FA-elig 125 2.6 2.0 +4.8
Todd Frazier 26 pre-arb 128 2.5 0.5 +5.9
Jay Bruce 25 arb 155 2.4 5.0 +1.2
Bronson Arroyo 35 FA-elig 32 2.3 12.0 -6.2
Homer Bailey 26 arb 34 2.2 2.4 +3.3
Mike Leake 24 pre-arb 35 2.2 0.5 +5.1
Zack Cozart 26 pre-arb 138 1.9 0.5 +4.4
Sean Marshall 29 FA-elig 73 1.6 3.1 +1.0
Drew Stubbs 27 arb 136 1.3 0.5 +2.8
Sam LeCure 28 pre-arb 48 1.0 0.5 +2.0
Chris Heisey 27 pre-arb 120 0.8 0.5 +1.6
Scott Rolen 37 FA-elig 92 0.8 6.5 -4.5
Jonathan Broxton↔ KCR 28 FA-elig 25 0.6 1.7 -0.0
Alfredo Simon 31 arb 36 0.5 0.5 +0.8
Xavier Paul 27 pre-arb 55 0.5 0.4 +0.9
J.J. Hoover 24 – 28 0.5 0.5 +0.8
Dioner Navarro 28 FA-elig 24 0.5 0.8 +0.4
Devin Mesoraco 24 pre-arb 54 0.3 0.5 +0.2
Didi Gregorius 22 – 8 0.1 – –
Denis Phipps 26 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Kristopher Negrón 26 – 4 0.0 – –
Tony Cingrani 22 – 3 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Pedro Villarreal 24 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Jose Arredondo 28 arb 66 -0.1 0.8 -1.0
Henry Alejandro Rodriguez 22 – 12 -0.1 – –
Todd Redmond 27 – 1 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Mike Costanzo 28 – 17 -0.4 – –
Willie Harris 34 FA-elig 25 -0.5 0.8 -2.1
Bill Bray 29 FA-elig 14 -0.7 1.4 -3.1
Logan Ondrusek 27 pre-arb 63 -0.8 0.5 -2.6
Miguel Cairo 38 FA-elig 70 -1.1 1.0 -3.8
Wilson Valdez 34 FA-elig 77 -1.2 0.9 -4.1

38 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 34 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.