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GM: Walt Jocketty (since 2009)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.6
WAB — wins above budget
-6.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
76–86 (0.469)
record
-34M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.5
roster fWAR
$109.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Todd Frazier 28 arb 157 4.5 0.6 +12.6
Johnny Cueto 28 FA-elig 34 4.3 10.0 +2.7
Devin Mesoraco 26 arb 114 3.9 0.5 +11.0
Mike Leake 26 arb 40 2.8 5.9 +2.4
Aroldis Chapman 26 arb 54 2.8 5.0 +3.1
Billy Hamilton 23 pre-arb 152 2.7 0.5 +7.4
Homer Bailey 28 FA-elig 23 1.7 9.0 -4.0
Kristopher Negrón 28 – 49 1.7 – –
Mat Latos 26 arb 16 1.7 7.2 -2.4
Brandon Phillips 33 FA-elig 121 1.4 11.0 -7.0
Zack Cozart 28 arb 147 1.3 0.6 +3.3
Alfredo Simon 33 FA-elig 32 1.3 1.5 +2.2
Joey Votto 30 FA-elig 62 0.8 12.0 -9.7
Ramon Santiago 34 FA-elig 75 0.7 1.1 +1.0
Chris Heisey 29 arb 119 0.7 1.8 +0.2
Jonathan Broxton↔ MIL 30 FA-elig 51 0.4 5.8 -4.6
Jumbo Diaz 30 – 36 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Daniel Corcino 23 pre-arb 5 0.3 0.1 +0.8
Pedro Villarreal 26 pre-arb 12 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Jeff Francis↔ NYY 33 – 1 0.0 – –
Curtis Partch 27 – 6 -0.0 – –
Logan Ondrusek 29 arb 40 -0.0 1.4 -1.4
Tucker Barnhart 23 – 21 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Trevor Bell 27 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Brayan Peña 32 FA-elig 115 -0.1 0.9 -1.1
Jason Bourgeois 32 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Manny Parra 31 FA-elig 53 -0.1 2.0 -2.2
Dylan Axelrod 28 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Jake Elmore 27 – 5 -0.1 – –
Sean Marshall 31 FA-elig 15 -0.2 5.5 -5.9
Yorman Rodriguez 21 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.1 -0.5
Carlos Contreras 23 – 17 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
Sam LeCure 30 arb 62 -0.2 1.2 -1.7
Nick Christiani 26 pre-arb 10 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Ryan Dennick 27 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Tony Cingrani 24 pre-arb 13 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Jack Hannahan 34 FA-elig 26 -0.2 1.0 -1.7
Donald Lutz 25 pre-arb 28 -0.3 0.2 -1.1
Roger Bernadina↔ LAD 30 – 44 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
Ryan Ludwick 35 FA-elig 112 -0.4 8.5 -9.6
J.J. Hoover 26 pre-arb 54 -0.4 0.5 -1.6
Jay Bruce 27 FA-elig 137 -0.4 10.0 -11.2
Neftali Soto 25 pre-arb 21 -0.5 0.5 -2.0
Skip Schumaker 34 FA-elig 83 -0.8 2.0 -4.3
David Holmberg 22 pre-arb 7 -0.9 0.1 -2.7

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 of them (91%). 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.