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GM: Walt Jocketty (since 2009)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+8.0
WAB — wins above budget
+6.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record · made playoffs
+5M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.4
roster fWAR
$104.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Shin-Soo Choo 30 FA-elig 154 6.4 7.4 +9.9
Joey Votto 29 FA-elig 162 5.7 17.0 -1.8
Mat Latos 25 arb 32 4.9 4.2 +8.9
Homer Bailey 27 FA-elig 32 4.2 5.3 +5.9
Jay Bruce 26 arb 160 4.0 7.5 +3.3
Todd Frazier 27 pre-arb 150 2.9 0.5 +7.4
Brandon Phillips 32 FA-elig 151 2.7 10.0 -2.8
Mike Leake 25 arb 31 2.6 3.1 +4.0
Tony Cingrani 23 pre-arb 24 1.9 0.5 +4.6
Aroldis Chapman 25 arb 68 1.8 2.0 +2.8
Zack Cozart 27 pre-arb 151 1.6 0.5 +3.6
Sam LeCure 29 arb 63 1.0 0.5 +2.1
Chris Heisey 28 arb 87 0.8 1.3 +0.9
J.J. Hoover 25 pre-arb 69 0.8 0.5 +1.6
Johnny Cueto 27 arb 11 0.7 7.4 -5.6
Manny Parra 30 FA-elig 57 0.7 1.0 +0.8
Billy Hamilton 22 – 13 0.6 0.1 +1.6
Bronson Arroyo 36 FA-elig 32 0.6 16.4 -14.9
Ryan Hanigan 32 FA-elig 75 0.4 2.0 -1.1
Sean Marshall 30 FA-elig 16 0.3 4.5 -3.6
Corky Miller 37 arb 17 0.3 0.3 +0.6
Zach Duke↔ WSN 30 FA-elig 14 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Derrick Robinson 25 pre-arb 102 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Logan Ondrusek 28 arb 52 0.1 0.9 -0.7
Alfredo Simon 32 arb 63 0.1 0.9 -0.7
Xavier Paul 28 arb 97 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Greg Reynolds 27 – 6 -0.0 – –
Justin Freeman 26 – 1 -0.1 – –
Donald Lutz 24 pre-arb 34 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Nick Christiani 25 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Henry Alejandro Rodriguez 23 – 9 -0.1 – –
Cesar Izturis 33 FA-elig 63 -0.2 0.8 -1.3
Jack Hannahan 33 FA-elig 83 -0.3 1.0 -1.7
Neftali Soto 24 pre-arb 13 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Jonathan Broxton 29 FA-elig 34 -0.3 4.0 -4.8
Pedro Villarreal 25 pre-arb 2 -0.4 0.0 -1.0
Curtis Partch 26 pre-arb 14 -0.9 0.2 -2.8
Ryan Ludwick 34 FA-elig 38 -1.0 2.0 -4.7
Devin Mesoraco 25 pre-arb 103 -1.2 0.5 -3.8

39 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (92%). 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.