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GM: Nick Krall (since 2018)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-6.4
WAB — wins above budget
-1.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
75–87 (0.463)
record
-18M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.4
roster fWAR
$124.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Sonny Gray 29 FA-elig 34 4.6 7.5 +7.4
Eugenio Suárez 27 arb 159 4.3 7.3 +6.9
Luis Castillo 26 pre-arb 32 3.8 0.6 +11.9
Anthony DeSclafani 29 arb 31 2.3 2.1 +5.3
Tanner Roark↔ OAK 32 FA-elig 21 2.0 6.8 -0.1
Jose Iglesias 29 FA-elig 146 1.8 2.5 +3.5
Aristides Aquino 25 pre-arb 56 1.5 0.2 +4.8
Tyler Mahle 24 pre-arb 27 1.4 0.6 +4.1
Michael Lorenzen 27 arb 105 1.3 1.9 +2.3
Yasiel Puig↔ CLE 28 FA-elig 100 1.2 6.5 -2.5
Raisel Iglesias 29 arb 68 1.2 5.7 -1.8
Tucker Barnhart 28 arb 114 1.0 2.9 +0.5
Robert Stephenson 26 arb 57 0.9 0.6 +2.4
Phillip Ervin 26 pre-arb 94 0.9 0.4 +2.6
Nick Senzel 24 – 104 0.8 0.4 +2.3
Joey Votto 35 FA-elig 142 0.8 25.0 -22.4
Curt Casali 30 arb 84 0.8 0.9 +1.6
Jesse Winker 25 pre-arb 113 0.8 0.6 +1.9
Trevor Bauer↔ CLE 28 FA-elig 10 0.7 3.8 -1.4
Derek Dietrich 29 FA-elig 113 0.6 0.1 +2.0
Amir Garrett 27 pre-arb 69 0.5 0.6 +1.0
Kevin Gausman↔ ATL 28 FA-elig 15 0.4 4.5 -3.2
David Hernandez 34 FA-elig 47 0.4 2.5 -1.3
Lucas Sims 25 pre-arb 24 0.4 0.2 +0.9
Matt Bowman 28 pre-arb 27 0.3 0.3 +0.8
R.J. Alaniz↔ SEA 28 – 8 0.3 0.1 +0.8
Alex Blandino 26 pre-arb 23 0.2 0.6 +0.2
Freddy Galvis↔ TOR 29 FA-elig 32 0.2 0.9 -0.2
Ryan Lavarnway 31 – 5 0.2 0.0 +0.6
Cody Reed 26 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Christian Colón 30 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Josh VanMeter 24 – 95 0.1 0.4 -0.0
Kyle Farmer 28 pre-arb 97 0.1 0.6 -0.3
Brian O'Grady 27 – 28 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Joel Kuhnel 24 – 11 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Keury Mella 25 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Jared Hughes↔ PHI 33 FA-elig 47 -0.0 1.4 -1.4
Alex Wood 28 FA-elig 7 -0.1 9.7 -10.0
Jimmy Herget 25 – 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Juan Graterol 30 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
Sal Romano 25 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
José Peraza 25 arb 141 -0.3 2.8 -3.7
Zach Duke 36 FA-elig 30 -0.4 2.0 -3.2
Matt Kemp 34 – 20 -0.6 14.5 -16.6
Scott Schebler 28 arb 30 -0.6 0.6 -2.7
Scooter Gennett↔ SFG 29 FA-elig 21 -0.7 4.9 -7.1
Wandy Peralta↔ SFG 27 arb 39 -0.7 0.5 -2.8

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.