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President of baseball ops: Nick Krall (since 2022)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.7
WAB — wins above budget
-1.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
77–85 (0.475)
record
+12M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.1
roster fWAR
$96.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Elly De La Cruz 22 pre-arb 160 6.6 0.7 +26.6
Hunter Greene 24 pre-arb 26 3.7 3.3 +12.0
Nick Martinez 33 FA-elig 42 3.4 14.0 +0.2
Tyler Stephenson 27 arb 138 3.1 2.5 +10.2
Jonathan India 27 arb 151 2.9 3.8 +8.4
Nick Lodolo 26 pre-arb 21 2.0 0.8 +7.6
Spencer Steer 26 pre-arb 158 1.6 0.8 +5.9
Fernando Cruz 34 pre-arb 69 1.2 0.8 +4.2
Andrew Abbott 25 pre-arb 25 1.0 0.7 +3.5
Jake Fraley 29 arb 116 1.0 2.1 +2.0
Rhett Lowder 22 – 6 0.9 0.1 +3.5
Jakob Junis↔ MIL 31 FA-elig 14 0.8 2.3 +1.0
Frankie Montas↔ MIL 31 FA-elig 19 0.8 8.9 -5.6
Tony Santillan 27 pre-arb 29 0.8 0.3 +2.8
Rece Hinds 23 – 24 0.7 0.2 +2.7
Buck Farmer 33 FA-elig 61 0.5 2.2 +0.0
Graham Ashcraft 26 pre-arb 15 0.5 0.8 +1.5
Emilio Pagán 33 FA-elig 38 0.5 8.0 -6.0
Sam Moll 32 FA-elig 48 0.4 0.8 +1.0
Austin Wynns 33 arb 7 0.4 0.9 +0.6
TJ Friedl 28 arb 85 0.3 0.8 +0.4
Stuart Fairchild 28 arb 94 0.3 0.8 +0.3
Alexis Díaz 27 pre-arb 60 0.2 0.8 +0.1
Brent Suter 34 FA-elig 47 0.2 2.5 -1.8
Justin Wilson 36 FA-elig 60 0.1 1.5 -1.0
Yosver Zulueta 26 – 12 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Alex Young↔ NYM 30 arb 3 0.0 0.2 -0.0
David Buchanan 35 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.2
Santiago Espinal 29 arb 118 0.0 2.7 -2.6
Joey Wiemer↔ MIL 25 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Carson Spiers 26 pre-arb 22 0.0 0.7 -0.6
Ian Gibaut 30 arb 2 0.0 0.8 -0.7
Blake Dunn 25 pre-arb 19 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Evan Kravetz 27 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Casey Kelly 34 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Alan Busenitz 33 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Eric Yang 26 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Jacob Hurtubise 26 pre-arb 29 -0.0 0.7 -0.9
Tejay Antone 30 arb 4 -0.1 0.8 -1.0
Casey Legumina 27 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Conner Capel 27 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Livan Soto↔ BAL 24 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Edwin Rios 30 – 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Lyon Richardson 24 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.7 -1.1
Lucas Sims↔ BOS 30 FA-elig 43 -0.1 2.1 -2.5
Dominic Smith↔ BOS 29 FA-elig 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Bubba Thompson 26 pre-arb 17 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Brandon Leibrandt 31 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Brandon Williamson 26 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.7 -1.5
Levi Jordan 28 – 7 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Jeimer Candelario 30 FA-elig 112 -0.3 13.0 -14.1
Austin Slater↔ BAL 31 FA-elig 8 -0.3 0.4 -1.6
Julian Aguiar 23 – 7 -0.3 0.2 -1.5
Nick Martini 34 FA-elig 52 -0.5 0.8 -2.8
Amed Rosario↔ LAD 28 FA-elig 22 -0.5 0.3 -2.6
Ty France↔ SEA 29 arb 52 -0.6 2.5 -4.8
Will Benson 26 pre-arb 128 -0.6 0.8 -3.2
Mike Ford 31 arb 17 -0.6 1.3 -3.9
Christian Encarnacion-Strand 24 pre-arb 29 -0.7 0.7 -3.5
Luke Maile 33 FA-elig 55 -0.7 3.0 -6.0
Noelvi Marte 22 pre-arb 66 -1.4 0.7 -6.7

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.