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GM: Walt Jocketty (since 2009)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-16.3
WAB — wins above budget
-5.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
64–98 (0.395)
record
-20M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.3
roster fWAR
$107.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joey Votto 31 FA-elig 158 7.3 14.0 +8.9
Todd Frazier 29 arb 157 4.3 4.5 +9.1
Anthony DeSclafani 25 pre-arb 31 3.2 0.5 +9.7
Johnny Cueto↔ KCR 29 FA-elig 19 3.1 5.9 +3.8
Brandon Phillips 34 FA-elig 148 2.5 12.0 -4.1
Aroldis Chapman 27 arb 65 2.5 8.1 -0.2
Mike Leake↔ SFG 27 arb 25 1.7 6.6 -1.2
Raisel Iglesias 25 pre-arb 18 1.5 1.7 +3.0
Zack Cozart 29 arb 53 1.3 2.4 +1.6
Billy Hamilton 24 pre-arb 114 1.2 0.5 +3.3
Eugenio Suárez 23 pre-arb 97 0.9 0.3 +2.4
Marlon Byrd↔ SFG 37 FA-elig 96 0.9 5.7 -3.0
Tucker Barnhart 24 pre-arb 81 0.7 0.5 +1.8
John Lamb 24 – 10 0.5 0.1 +1.5
Manny Parra 32 FA-elig 40 0.4 3.5 -2.2
Adam Duvall 26 pre-arb 27 0.4 0.1 +1.1
Ryan Mattheus↔ ANA 31 arb 57 0.4 0.4 +0.7
Jumbo Diaz 31 pre-arb 61 0.3 0.5 +0.6
Burke Badenhop 32 FA-elig 68 0.3 1.0 -0.1
Iván De Jesús Jr. 28 – 76 0.2 – –
Ramón Cabrera 25 pre-arb 13 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Jay Bruce 28 FA-elig 157 0.2 12.0 -11.3
Keyvius Sampson 24 pre-arb 13 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Chris Dominguez 28 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Donovan Hand 29 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Tyler Holt↔ CLE 26 – 5 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Sam LeCure 31 arb 19 0.0 1.9 -1.8
Jon Moscot 23 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Kyle Waldrop 23 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Pedro Villarreal 27 pre-arb 29 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Jason Marquis 36 FA-elig 10 -0.0 1.5 -1.6
J.J. Hoover 27 arb 67 -0.0 0.5 -0.7
Brandon Finnegan↔ KCR 22 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Michael Lorenzen 23 – 33 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Tony Cingrani 25 arb 35 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Josh A. Smith 27 – 10 -0.1 – –
Kevin Gregg 37 FA-elig 11 -0.2 1.5 -2.0
Devin Mesoraco 27 arb 23 -0.2 2.5 -3.2
Homer Bailey 29 FA-elig 2 -0.3 10.0 -10.8
Carlos Contreras 24 pre-arb 22 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
Ryan LaMarre 26 – 21 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Nate Adcock 27 – 13 -0.3 – –
Collin Balester 29 pre-arb 15 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Jason Bourgeois 33 FA-elig 68 -0.4 0.5 -1.7
Brayan Peña 33 FA-elig 108 -0.4 1.4 -2.7
Dylan Axelrod 29 pre-arb 6 -0.6 0.1 -1.9
Kristopher Negrón 29 arb 43 -0.6 0.5 -2.4
David Holmberg 23 pre-arb 6 -0.8 0.1 -2.6
Skip Schumaker 35 FA-elig 131 -0.8 2.5 -5.1
Brennan Boesch 30 arb 51 -1.1 1.2 -4.6

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 of them (94%). 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.