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GM: Sal Bando (since 1992)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.8
WAB — wins above budget
-5.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
65–79 (0.451)
record
+0M
surplus $M (value/$)
18.9
roster fWAR
$18.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
B.J. Surhoff 30 FA-elig 117 3.4 0.4 +2.9
John Jaha 29 arb 88 2.7 0.2 +2.4
Kevin Seitzer 33 FA-elig 132 2.5 0.9 +1.5
Steve Sparks 30 pre-arb 33 2.4 0.1 +2.2
Scott Karl 23 pre-arb 25 1.7 0.1 +1.5
Jeff Cirillo 25 pre-arb 125 1.6 0.1 +1.5
Brian Givens 29 pre-arb 19 1.3 0.1 +1.2
Ricky Bones 26 arb 32 1.1 0.6 +0.5
Darryl Hamilton 30 FA-elig 112 1.0 2.1 -1.2
Joe Oliver 29 FA-elig 97 0.9 0.5 +0.4
Dave Nilsson 25 arb 81 0.8 0.3 +0.5
Jamie McAndrew 27 pre-arb 10 0.7 0.1 +0.5
Jose Valentin 25 arb 112 0.5 0.2 +0.4
Turner Ward 30 arb 44 0.5 0.2 +0.2
Mike Fetters 30 FA-elig 40 0.5 0.9 -0.4
Fernando Viña 26 pre-arb 113 0.4 0.1 +0.3
Angel Miranda 25 pre-arb 30 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Matt Mieske 27 pre-arb 117 0.2 0.1 +0.1
Cal Eldred 27 arb 4 0.2 0.5 -0.3
Al Reyes 25 pre-arb 27 0.2 0.1 +0.0
Jeff Bronkey 29 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Bob Scanlan 28 arb 17 0.1 0.8 -0.7
Mark Kiefer 26 – 24 0.1 – –
Graeme Lloyd 28 pre-arb 33 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Mark Loretta 23 pre-arb 19 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Kevin Wickander↔ DET 30 FA-elig 8 0.1 0.0 +0.0
Ron Rightnowar 30 pre-arb 34 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Mike Matheny 24 pre-arb 80 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Mike Thomas 25 – 1 -0.0 – –
Tim Unroe 24 – 2 -0.0 – –
Bill Wegman 32 FA-elig 37 -0.1 2.4 -2.5
Jose Mercedes 24 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Mike Ignasiak 29 arb 25 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Joe Slusarski 28 arb 12 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Sid Roberson 23 pre-arb 26 -0.4 0.1 -0.4
Rob Dibble↔ CHW 31 FA-elig 15 -0.4 0.2 -0.6
Derrick May↔ HOU 26 arb 32 -0.5 0.1 -0.5
Greg Vaughn 29 FA-elig 108 -0.5 4.9 -5.3
Duane Singleton 22 – 13 -0.5 – –
Pat Listach 27 arb 101 -0.7 0.5 -1.2
David Hulse 27 arb 119 -1.1 0.2 -1.3

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (90%). 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.