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GM: Nick Krall (since 2018)

2021 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.1
WAB — wins above budget
+1.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
83–79 (0.512)
record
-12M
surplus $M (value/$)
35.3
roster fWAR
$125.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Luis Castillo 28 arb 33 4.0 4.2 +8.7
Nick Castellanos 29 FA-elig 138 3.7 14.0 -2.0
Joey Votto 37 FA-elig 129 3.5 25.0 -13.5
Tyler Mahle 26 arb 33 3.5 2.2 +9.2
Jonathan India 24 – 150 3.4 0.6 +10.5
Wade Miley 34 FA-elig 30 3.4 8.0 +3.0
Jesse Winker 27 arb 110 3.2 3.1 +7.4
Sonny Gray 31 FA-elig 26 2.4 10.2 -2.3
Kyle Farmer 30 arb 147 2.1 0.6 +6.2
Tyler Stephenson 24 pre-arb 132 1.8 0.6 +5.2
Tucker Barnhart 30 FA-elig 116 1.5 4.2 +0.8
Tyler Naquin 30 arb 127 1.4 1.5 +3.2
Lucas Sims 27 pre-arb 47 1.3 0.6 +3.6
Tejay Antone 27 pre-arb 23 0.8 0.6 +2.1
Vladimir Gutierrez 25 – 22 0.6 0.4 +1.5
Art Warren 28 pre-arb 26 0.6 0.4 +1.4
Luis Cessa↔ NYY 29 arb 24 0.5 0.5 +1.3
Reiver Sanmartin 25 – 2 0.4 0.0 +1.4
Sean Doolittle↔ SEA 34 FA-elig 45 0.3 1.2 -0.3
Tony Santillan 24 – 27 0.2 0.3 +0.5
Michael Lorenzen 29 FA-elig 27 0.2 4.4 -3.7
Delino DeShields 28 arb 25 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Heath Hembree↔ NYM 32 FA-elig 45 0.2 0.9 -0.3
Max Schrock 26 pre-arb 53 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Jeff Hoffman 28 pre-arb 32 0.2 0.6 +0.0
José De León 28 – 9 0.2 – –
Justin Wilson↔ NYY 33 FA-elig 21 0.2 1.4 -0.8
TJ Friedl 25 – 14 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Mychal Givens↔ COL 31 FA-elig 23 0.1 1.7 -1.3
José Barrero 23 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Carson Fulmer 27 pre-arb 20 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Dauri Moreta 25 – 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Eugenio Suárez 29 FA-elig 145 -0.0 10.8 -10.8
Amir Garrett 29 arb 63 -0.0 1.5 -1.6
Michael Feliz↔ BOS 28 FA-elig 9 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Brad Brach 35 – 35 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Ashton Goudeau↔ COL 28 – 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Edgar García↔ MIN 24 – 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
R.J. Alaniz 30 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Nick Senzel 26 pre-arb 36 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Cam Bedrosian↔ OAK 29 FA-elig 6 -0.1 0.3 -0.8
Scott Heineman 28 – 19 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Sal Romano↔ MIL 27 – 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Aristides Aquino 27 pre-arb 84 -0.2 0.6 -1.2
Riley O'Brien 26 – 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Alex Blandino 28 pre-arb 43 -0.2 0.4 -1.2
Alejo Lopez 25 – 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Mike Freeman 33 pre-arb 37 -0.3 0.2 -1.1
Cionel Pérez 25 pre-arb 25 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
Mark Payton 29 – 24 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Josh Osich 32 FA-elig 17 -0.4 0.1 -1.2
Mike Moustakas 32 FA-elig 62 -0.4 14.0 -15.3
Ryan Hendrix 26 – 36 -0.4 0.3 -1.6
Asdrúbal Cabrera↔ ARI 35 FA-elig 20 -0.4 0.3 -1.7
Shogo Akiyama 33 pre-arb 88 -0.7 7.0 -9.2

55 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 54 of them (98%). 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.