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2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-8.1
WAB — wins above budget
-1.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
68–94 (0.420)
record
+9M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.2
roster fWAR
$82.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joey Votto 33 FA-elig 162 6.2 22.0 -1.0
Zack Cozart 31 FA-elig 122 4.2 5.3 +8.8
Eugenio Suárez 25 arb 156 3.9 0.6 +12.7
Adam Duvall 28 arb 157 2.7 0.6 +8.7
Scooter Gennett 27 arb 141 2.3 2.5 +5.4
Raisel Iglesias 27 pre-arb 63 2.0 4.2 +2.4
Billy Hamilton 26 arb 139 1.8 2.6 +3.4
Luis Castillo 24 – 15 1.7 0.3 +5.3
Scott Schebler 26 pre-arb 141 1.5 0.5 +4.5
Sal Romano 23 – 16 1.2 0.2 +3.9
Tucker Barnhart 26 arb 121 1.2 0.6 +3.4
Homer Bailey 31 FA-elig 18 1.0 19.0 -15.6
Jesse Winker 23 – 47 0.9 0.2 +2.9
Michael Lorenzen 25 pre-arb 73 0.8 0.6 +2.2
Blake Wood↔ ANA 31 FA-elig 55 0.5 1.0 +0.8
Wandy Peralta 25 pre-arb 69 0.4 0.5 +1.0
Scott Feldman 34 FA-elig 21 0.4 2.3 -1.0
Tyler Mahle 22 – 4 0.4 0.1 +1.2
Robert Stephenson 24 pre-arb 26 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Deck McGuire 28 – 6 0.2 0.1 +0.8
Asher Wojciechowski 28 pre-arb 25 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Kevin Shackelford 28 pre-arb 26 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Brandon Finnegan 24 arb 5 0.0 0.6 -0.4
Jackson Stephens 23 – 7 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Jake Buchanan 27 – 5 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Phillip Ervin 24 – 28 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Luke Farrell↔ KCR 26 – 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Zach Vincej 26 – 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Devin Mesoraco 29 FA-elig 56 -0.0 7.3 -7.4
Austin Brice 25 pre-arb 22 -0.0 0.5 -0.7
José Peraza 23 pre-arb 143 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Keury Mella 23 – 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Alejandro Chacin 24 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Drew Storen 29 FA-elig 58 -0.1 3.0 -3.4
Patrick Kivlehan 27 pre-arb 115 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Chad Wallach 25 – 6 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Rookie Davis 24 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.5 -1.3
Barrett Astin 25 pre-arb 6 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Lisalverto Bonilla 27 – 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Cody Reed 24 pre-arb 12 -0.3 0.5 -1.6
Ariel Hernández 25 pre-arb 19 -0.4 0.2 -1.5
Tim Adleman 29 pre-arb 30 -0.4 0.5 -1.8
Tony Cingrani↔ LAD 27 arb 25 -0.5 1.0 -2.7
Arismendy Alcántara 25 arb 70 -0.7 0.5 -2.8
Bronson Arroyo 40 FA-elig 15 -0.8 0.5 -3.1
Stuart Turner 25 pre-arb 37 -0.9 0.5 -3.7
Amir Garrett 25 – 16 -1.3 0.3 -4.8

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.