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GM: Dick Williams (since 2016)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-9.3
WAB — wins above budget
-17.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
68–94 (0.420)
record
-44M
surplus $M (value/$)
12.8
roster fWAR
$87.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joey Votto 32 FA-elig 158 5.0 20.0 -3.9
Billy Hamilton 25 arb 119 3.8 0.6 +11.7
Adam Duvall 27 pre-arb 150 2.2 0.5 +6.6
Eugenio Suárez 24 pre-arb 159 2.1 0.5 +6.2
Anthony DeSclafani 26 pre-arb 20 2.0 0.5 +5.9
Jay Bruce↔ NYM 29 FA-elig 97 1.5 8.2 -3.3
Raisel Iglesias 26 pre-arb 37 1.4 3.2 +1.4
José Peraza 22 pre-arb 72 1.2 0.5 +3.3
Zack Cozart 30 arb 121 0.7 2.9 -0.6
Scott Schebler 25 pre-arb 82 0.6 0.5 +1.6
Brandon Finnegan 23 pre-arb 33 0.6 0.5 +1.5
Michael Lorenzen 24 pre-arb 36 0.6 0.5 +1.4
Dan Straily 27 arb 34 0.6 0.5 +1.4
Homer Bailey 30 FA-elig 6 0.6 18.0 -16.1
Tucker Barnhart 25 pre-arb 115 0.5 0.5 +1.2
Blake Wood 30 FA-elig 70 0.4 0.6 +0.8
Steve Selsky 26 pre-arb 24 0.2 0.1 +0.6
John Lamb 25 pre-arb 14 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Tim Adleman 28 – 13 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Hernan Iribarren 32 – 24 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Tony Cingrani 26 arb 65 0.2 0.5 -0.0
Daniel Wright↔ ANA 25 – 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Caleb Cotham 28 pre-arb 23 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Abel De Los Santos 23 – 5 -0.1 – –
Matt Magill 26 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Steve Delabar 32 – 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Wandy Peralta 24 – 10 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Raffy Lopez 28 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Kyle Waldrop 24 pre-arb 15 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
A.J. Morris 29 – 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Brandon Phillips 35 FA-elig 141 -0.2 13.0 -13.6
JC Ramírez↔ ANA 27 – 27 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Layne Somsen 27 – 2 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Patrick Kivlehan↔ SDP 26 – 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Jumbo Diaz 32 pre-arb 45 -0.2 0.5 -1.3
Josh A. Smith 28 – 33 -0.3 – –
Dayan Díaz 27 pre-arb 6 -0.3 0.0 -0.9
Drew Hayes 28 – 6 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Tyler Holt 27 pre-arb 106 -0.3 0.5 -1.6
Tony Renda 25 – 32 -0.3 – –
Keyvius Sampson 25 pre-arb 18 -0.3 0.5 -1.6
Iván De Jesús Jr. 29 arb 104 -0.4 0.5 -1.8
Cody Reed 23 – 10 -0.4 0.2 -1.7
Robert Stephenson 23 – 8 -0.4 0.1 -1.5
Tim Melville 26 – 3 -0.5 0.0 -1.6
Devin Mesoraco 28 arb 16 -0.5 5.0 -6.7
Ross Ohlendorf 33 FA-elig 64 -0.5 0.8 -2.6
Jordan Pacheco 30 – 31 -0.7 0.8 -3.0
Jon Moscot 24 pre-arb 5 -0.9 0.5 -3.3
J.J. Hoover 28 arb 18 -0.9 1.4 -4.4
Alfredo Simon 35 FA-elig 15 -1.0 2.0 -5.4
Ramón Cabrera 26 pre-arb 61 -1.8 0.4 -6.2

52 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 49 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.