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President of baseball ops: Nick Krall (since 2022)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.2
WAB — wins above budget
+4.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
82–80 (0.506)
record
+37M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.9
roster fWAR
$70.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
TJ Friedl 27 pre-arb 138 4.1 0.7 +15.7
Matt McLain 23 – 89 3.2 0.5 +12.1
Andrew Abbott 24 – 21 2.1 0.5 +8.0
Spencer Steer 25 pre-arb 156 2.0 0.7 +7.3
Will Benson 25 pre-arb 108 1.9 0.7 +6.9
Hunter Greene 23 pre-arb 22 1.9 1.3 +6.3
Elly De La Cruz 21 – 98 1.9 – –
Brandon Williamson 25 – 23 1.8 0.5 +6.4
Alexis Díaz 26 pre-arb 71 1.7 0.7 +6.0
Fernando Cruz 33 pre-arb 58 1.6 0.7 +5.7
Jonathan India 26 pre-arb 119 1.6 0.8 +5.5
Graham Ashcraft 25 pre-arb 26 1.4 0.7 +5.0
Jake Fraley 28 arb 111 1.1 0.7 +3.8
Stuart Fairchild 27 pre-arb 97 0.9 0.7 +2.8
Ian Gibaut 29 arb 74 0.9 0.7 +2.8
Lucas Sims 29 FA-elig 67 0.8 1.3 +1.7
Christian Encarnacion-Strand 23 – 63 0.7 0.3 +2.3
Noelvi Marte 21 – 35 0.6 0.2 +2.1
Buck Farmer 32 FA-elig 71 0.6 1.8 +0.5
Sam Moll↔ OAK 31 FA-elig 25 0.6 0.3 +1.9
Nick Martini 33 pre-arb 29 0.4 0.2 +1.4
Ben Lively 31 pre-arb 19 0.4 0.7 +0.7
Derek Law 32 FA-elig 54 0.3 1.0 +0.2
Luke Maile 32 FA-elig 78 0.2 1.2 -0.2
Luke Weaver↔ NYY 29 FA-elig 21 0.2 1.4 -0.6
Carson Spiers 25 – 4 0.2 0.1 +0.7
Tejay Antone 29 arb 5 0.2 0.8 -0.0
Brett Kennedy 28 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Luis Cessa 31 FA-elig 7 0.2 2.6 -2.0
Alan Busenitz 32 pre-arb 6 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Levi Stoudt 25 – 4 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Silvino Bracho 30 arb 5 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Alex Young 29 arb 63 0.1 1.1 -0.8
Alejo Lopez 27 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Joey Votto 39 FA-elig 65 0.1 25.0 -24.7
Connor Phillips 22 – 5 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Nick Lodolo 25 pre-arb 7 0.0 0.7 -0.6
Kevin Newman 29 arb 74 0.0 2.7 -2.6
Ricky Karcher 25 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Eduardo Salazar 25 – 8 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Randy Wynne 30 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Henry Ramos 31 pre-arb 23 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Joel Kuhnel↔ HOU 28 arb 2 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Michael Siani↔ STL 23 – 3 -0.0 – –
Jake Wong 26 – 1 -0.0 – –
Kevin Herget 32 pre-arb 14 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Chasen Shreve↔ DET 32 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Michael Mariot 34 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Reiver Sanmartin 27 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Matt Reynolds 32 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Alec Mills 31 arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Tony Santillan 26 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.4 -0.8
Connor Overton 29 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Daniel Duarte 26 pre-arb 31 -0.2 0.3 -1.0
Harrison Bader↔ NYY 29 arb 14 -0.2 0.6 -1.3
Casey Legumina 26 – 11 -0.2 0.4 -1.2
Curt Casali 34 FA-elig 40 -0.3 2.5 -3.5
Jason Vosler 29 pre-arb 20 -0.3 1.0 -2.0
Nick Senzel 28 arb 104 -0.4 1.9 -3.7
Lyon Richardson 23 – 4 -0.5 0.1 -1.9
José Barrero 25 arb 46 -0.5 0.7 -2.6
TJ Hopkins 26 – 25 -0.5 0.2 -2.3
Hunter Renfroe↔ ANA 31 FA-elig 14 -0.6 1.2 -3.4
Tyler Stephenson 26 arb 142 -0.6 0.7 -3.0
Wil Myers 32 FA-elig 37 -0.7 6.0 -8.8

65 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 62 of them (95%). 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.