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GM: Jim Bowden (since 2005)

2006 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-6.5
WAB — wins above budget
-6.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
71–91 (0.438)
record
-12M
surplus $M (value/$)
24.0
roster fWAR
$53.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Alfonso Soriano 30 FA-elig 159 5.4 10.0 +0.6
Nick Johnson 27 arb 147 4.9 3.2 +6.5
Ryan Zimmerman 21 pre-arb 157 3.8 0.3 +7.3
Austin Kearns↔ CIN 26 arb 63 2.0 0.8 +3.2
Ryan Church 27 – 71 1.9 – –
Livan Hernandez↔ ARI 31 FA-elig 26 1.6 5.6 -2.4
John Patterson 28 arb 8 1.1 0.5 +1.7
Mike Stanton↔ SFG 39 FA-elig 56 0.7 0.7 +0.6
Marlon Anderson↔ LAD 32 FA-elig 109 0.6 0.8 +0.5
Felipe Lopez↔ CIN 26 arb 71 0.6 1.2 -0.1
Pedro Astacio 37 FA-elig 17 0.5 0.8 +0.3
Nook Logan 26 – 27 0.5 – –
Tony Armas 28 FA-elig 30 0.5 2.1 -1.2
Shawn Hill 25 – 6 0.5 – –
Jon Rauch 27 arb 85 0.4 0.3 +0.5
Marlon Byrd 28 arb 78 0.4 0.8 +0.0
Mike Vento 28 – 9 0.4 – –
Daryle Ward↔ ATL 31 FA-elig 78 0.3 0.6 +0.0
Brian Schneider 29 FA-elig 124 0.3 2.7 -2.1
Brandon Harper 30 – 18 0.3 – –
Micah Bowie 31 – 15 0.2 – –
Ramon Ortiz 33 FA-elig 38 0.2 2.5 -2.1
Zach Day↔ COL 28 arb 5 0.2 0.4 -0.1
Michael O'Connor 25 – 21 0.2 – –
Billy Traber 26 – 15 0.1 – –
Jose Vidro 31 FA-elig 126 0.1 7.0 -6.8
Chris Booker↔ KCR 29 – 10 0.1 – –
George Lombard 30 – 20 0.1 – –
Alex Escobar 27 – 33 0.1 – –
Gary Majewski↔ CIN 26 pre-arb 46 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Bill Bray↔ CIN 23 – 19 0.1 – –
Chad Cordero 24 arb 68 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Beltran Perez 24 – 9 0.1 – –
Ryan Drese 30 arb 2 0.0 1.9 -1.8
Luis Matos↔ BAL 27 FA-elig 14 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Saul Rivera 28 – 54 0.0 – –
Brendan Harris↔ CIN 25 – 17 -0.0 – –
Roy Corcoran 26 – 6 -0.0 – –
Ryan Wagner 23 – 26 -0.0 – –
Brett Campbell 24 – 4 -0.0 – –
Royce Clayton↔ CIN 36 FA-elig 87 -0.1 0.6 -0.7
Santiago Ramirez 27 – 4 -0.1 – –
Wiki Gonzalez 32 FA-elig 12 -0.1 0.7 -0.9
Henry Mateo 29 – 22 -0.1 – –
Melvin Dorta 24 – 15 -0.2 – –
Travis Hughes 28 – 8 -0.2 – –
Jason Bergmann 24 pre-arb 29 -0.2 0.3 -0.7
Jose Guillen 30 FA-elig 69 -0.2 4.0 -4.4
Matthew LeCroy 30 FA-elig 39 -0.2 0.8 -1.3
Bernie Castro 26 – 42 -0.2 – –
Robert Fick 32 FA-elig 60 -0.2 0.8 -1.3
Chris Schroder 27 – 21 -0.3 – –
Joey Eischen 36 FA-elig 22 -0.4 1.3 -2.1
Kevin Gryboski 32 – 6 -0.4 – –
Felix Rodriguez 33 FA-elig 31 -0.4 0.6 -1.5
Brandon Watson↔ CIN 24 pre-arb 9 -0.5 0.3 -1.2
Damian Jackson 32 FA-elig 67 -0.5 0.7 -1.8

57 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 32 of them (56%). 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 WSN
Dennis Martínez198622.5
Gio Gonzalez201120.8
Trea Turner201519.4
Liván Hernández200317.2
Bryn Smith197716.4
Moisés Alou199013.8
Tanner Roark201012.8
Mike Lansing199112.0
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Grady Sizemore200230.3
Cliff Lee200214.7
Tim Raines199014.5
Lucas Giolito201613.5
Cliff Floyd199713.2
Gary Carter198412.8
Maicer Izturis200412.2
Carl Pavano20028.1
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.