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GM: Harry Dalton (since 1978)

1990 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-9.8
WAB — wins above budget
-8.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
-7M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.6
roster fWAR
$19.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Teddy Higuera 32 arb 27 3.0 2.1 -0.8
Gary Sheffield 21 pre-arb 125 2.9 0.1 +1.2
Paul Molitor 33 FA-elig 103 2.8 2.6 -1.3
Ron Robinson↔ CIN 28 FA-elig 22 2.8 0.4 +0.9
Jaime Navarro 23 pre-arb 32 2.1 0.1 +0.8
Robin Yount 34 FA-elig 158 2.0 3.2 -2.3
B.J. Surhoff 25 arb 135 1.9 0.6 +0.3
Mark Knudson 29 arb 30 1.8 0.1 +0.6
Chris Bosio 27 arb 20 1.4 0.7 -0.1
Dave Parker 39 FA-elig 157 1.2 1.2 -0.6
Rob Deer 29 FA-elig 134 1.2 0.9 -0.4
Glenn Braggs↔ CIN 27 arb 37 0.9 0.2 +0.2
Dan Plesac 28 arb 66 0.9 1.5 -1.1
Dennis Powell↔ SEA 26 arb 9 0.8 0.1 +0.3
Bill Krueger 32 FA-elig 30 0.8 0.3 +0.0
Jim Gantner 37 FA-elig 88 0.8 0.7 -0.4
Mike Felder 28 arb 121 0.6 0.3 +0.0
Greg Brock 33 FA-elig 123 0.6 0.8 -0.5
Darryl Hamilton 25 pre-arb 89 0.4 0.1 +0.1
Chuck Crim 28 arb 67 0.3 0.6 -0.4
Bill Spiers 24 pre-arb 112 0.3 0.1 +0.0
Mark Lee 25 pre-arb 11 0.3 0.1 +0.0
Kevin Brown↔ NYM 24 pre-arb 5 0.3 0.1 +0.1
Julio Machado↔ NYM 24 pre-arb 10 0.2 0.0 +0.1
Tom Filer 33 FA-elig 7 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Greg Vaughn 24 pre-arb 120 0.1 0.1 -0.1
Don August 26 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Tom Edens 29 arb 35 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Bill Wegman 27 arb 8 0.0 0.6 -0.5
Narciso Elvira 22 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Tim McIntosh 25 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Mike Capel 28 – 2 -0.0 – –
Gus Polidor 28 arb 18 -0.1 0.2 -0.2
Billy Bates↔ CIN 26 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
Bob Sebra 28 – 10 -0.1 – –
Terry Francona 31 FA-elig 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Tony Fossas 32 pre-arb 32 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
George Canale 24 pre-arb 10 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Charlie O'Brien↔ NYM 30 arb 46 -0.2 0.1 -0.2
Edgar Diaz 26 arb 86 -0.2 0.1 -0.2
Randy Veres 24 pre-arb 26 -0.3 0.1 -0.2
Paul Mirabella 36 FA-elig 44 -0.7 0.2 -0.5
Dale Sveum 26 arb 48 -0.9 0.2 -0.6

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 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 MIL
Christian Yelich201828.6
Freddy Peralta201517.3
Jeromy Burnitz199617.1
William Contreras202216.4
José Valentín19929.9
Josh Hader20158.8
Chris Capuano20038.5
Rob Deer19857.9
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Michael Brantley200820.0
Kevin Bass198217.5
José Valentín200017.3
Drew Rasmussen20219.1
Danny Darwin19868.0
Brett Lawrie20107.7
Khris Davis20167.4
Fernando Viña19996.7
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.