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President of baseball ops: Nick Krall (since 2022)

2025 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+6.8
WAB — wins above budget
+3.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
83–79 (0.512)
record · made playoffs
+16M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.5
roster fWAR
$95.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Elly De La Cruz 23 – 162 4.3 – –
Andrew Abbott 26 pre-arb 29 3.9 0.8 +14.3
Hunter Greene 25 arb 19 2.9 6.3 +4.8
Brady Singer 28 arb 32 2.9 8.8 +2.3
TJ Friedl 29 pre-arb 152 2.9 0.8 +10.2
Nick Lodolo 27 arb 29 2.8 2.0 +8.8
Nick Martinez 34 FA-elig 40 2.1 21.1 -13.0
Graham Ashcraft 27 pre-arb 62 1.6 0.8 +5.4
Matt McLain 25 pre-arb 147 1.4 0.8 +4.6
Chase Burns 22 – 13 1.4 0.4 +4.9
Austin Hays 29 arb 103 1.2 4.1 +0.7
Tyler Stephenson 28 arb 88 1.1 4.9 -0.6
Noelvi Marte 23 pre-arb 90 1.1 0.8 +3.3
Tony Santillan 28 pre-arb 80 1.1 1.0 +3.0
Emilio Pagán 34 FA-elig 70 1.0 8.2 -4.2
Spencer Steer 27 pre-arb 146 1.0 0.8 +2.9
Austin Wynns↔ OAK 34 – 18 0.7 0.3 +2.5
Miguel Andujar↔ OAK 30 arb 34 0.7 0.7 +1.8
Ke'Bryan Hayes↔ PIT 28 arb 52 0.6 1.6 +0.7
Zack Littell↔ TBR 29 arb 10 0.6 1.2 +1.0
Sal Stewart 21 – 18 0.4 0.1 +1.5
Jake Fraley↔ ATL 30 – 67 0.3 2.2 -0.8
Jose Trevino 32 arb 94 0.3 3.4 -2.2
Gavin Lux 27 arb 140 0.3 3.3 -2.2
Taylor Rogers↔ CHC 34 – 40 0.2 4.2 -3.4
Connor Phillips 24 pre-arb 21 0.2 0.3 +0.4
Lyon Richardson 25 pre-arb 34 0.1 0.5 +0.0
Ian Gibaut 31 arb 25 0.1 1.3 -0.8
Scott Barlow 32 FA-elig 75 0.1 2.5 -2.1
Brent Suter 35 FA-elig 48 0.1 2.5 -2.2
Blake Dunn 26 pre-arb 30 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Reiver Sanmartin 29 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Will Benson 27 pre-arb 90 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Ryan Vilade↔ STL 26 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Carson Spiers 27 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.7 -0.7
Randy Wynne 32 – 1 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Yosver Zulueta 27 pre-arb 7 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Sam Moll 33 arb 23 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Jacob Hurtubise 27 – 12 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Zach Maxwell 24 – 8 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Tyler Callihan 25 – 4 -0.1 0.6 -1.1
Wade Miley 38 FA-elig 3 -0.1 1.8 -2.3
Garrett Hampson↔ ARI 30 – 9 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Luis Mey 24 – 23 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Will Banfield 25 – 7 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Chase Petty 22 – 3 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Santiago Espinal 30 arb 114 -0.3 2.4 -3.6
Joe La Sorsa 27 – 5 -0.4 – –
Rece Hinds 24 pre-arb 15 -0.5 0.1 -2.1
Alexis Díaz↔ ATL 28 – 6 -0.5 0.9 -3.0
Connor Joe↔ SDP 32 arb 35 -0.6 0.4 -2.8
Christian Encarnacion-Strand 25 pre-arb 36 -0.6 0.4 -2.8
Jeimer Candelario 31 – 22 -0.7 – –

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 50 of them (94%). 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.