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GM: Mike Hazen (since 2017)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+2.5 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-9.0 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
33–31 (0.516)
record
+112M
surplus $M (value/$)
24.4
roster fWAR
$136.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Corbin Carroll 25 arb 61 6.9 10.6 +50.7
Michael Soroka 28 FA-elig 12 4.2 7.0 +30.0
Ketel Marte 32 FA-elig 60 3.2 16.0 +12.4
Eduardo Rodriguez 33 FA-elig 13 2.9 21.0 +5.0
Nolan Arenado 35 FA-elig 59 2.9 5.0 +20.5
Geraldo Perdomo 26 arb 61 2.5 6.2 +16.4
Gabriel Moreno 26 arb 40 2.3 2.5 +18.4
Juan Morillo 27 pre-arb 28 1.8 0.8 +15.7
Ildemaro Vargas 34 arb 57 1.8 1.2 +14.8
Ryan Waldschmidt 23 – 28 1.4 0.6 +12.0
Kevin Ginkel 32 arb 26 1.4 2.7 +9.7
Taylor Clarke 33 arb 28 0.9 1.6 +6.0
Brandyn Garcia 26 pre-arb 15 0.7 0.6 +5.7
Jordan Lawlar 23 pre-arb 6 0.7 0.8 +5.3
Jonathan Loáisiga 31 FA-elig 27 0.7 1.5 +4.6
Paul Sewald 36 FA-elig 26 0.5 1.5 +3.2
Tommy Troy 24 – 13 0.3 0.5 +2.2
Jorge Barrosa 25 pre-arb 45 0.2 0.8 +1.0
Ryan Thompson 34 arb 26 0.1 4.0 -3.0
Drey Jameson 28 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.8 -1.3
Zac Gallen 30 FA-elig 13 -0.1 16.2 -16.7
Kade Strowd 28 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.8 -1.6
Alek Thomas 26 – 28 -0.1 – –
Luken Baker 29 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -1.2
Taylor Rashi 30 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -1.3
Jose Fernandez 22 – 55 -0.1 0.8 -2.1
Aramis Garcia 33 arb 7 -0.2 0.6 -2.0
Ryne Nelson 28 arb 13 -0.2 3.0 -5.0
LuJames Groover 24 – 2 -0.2 – –
Philip Abner 24 pre-arb 2 -0.3 0.0 -3.0
Joe Ross 33 – 3 -0.4 – –
Andrew Hoffmann 26 – 8 -0.5 – –
Pavin Smith 30 arb 8 -0.6 2.2 -7.6
Brandon Pfaadt 27 pre-arb 13 -0.7 3.4 -10.0
Tim Tawa 27 pre-arb 29 -0.9 0.8 -8.7
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. 32 – 25 -1.0 – –
James McCann 36 FA-elig 22 -1.2 2.9 -13.1
Adrian Del Castillo 26 – 41 -1.2 – –
Carlos Santana 40 FA-elig 8 -1.4 2.0 -14.1
Merrill Kelly 37 FA-elig 10 -1.5 18.0 -31.3

40 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 34 of them (85%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR), annualized to full-season pace. 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 ARI
Luis Gonzalez199833.8
Curt Schilling200021.4
Patrick Corbin201016.5
Chris Young200514.5
David Peralta201414.5
Nick Ahmed201312.9
Robbie Ray201411.8
Merrill Kelly201910.4
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Max Scherzer200922.2
Paul Goldschmidt201821.3
Dansby Swanson201516.1
Curt Schilling200315.2
Brett Anderson200711.5
Ender Inciarte201511.4
Mitch Haniger201611.1
Brad Penny19999.7
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.