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GM: Sal Bando (since 1992)

1996 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.3
WAB — wins above budget
-0.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
80–82 (0.494)
record
+4M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.8
roster fWAR
$20.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jeff Cirillo 26 pre-arb 158 4.2 0.2 +3.4
Ben McDonald 28 FA-elig 35 4.2 2.0 +1.5
Jose Valentin 26 arb 154 4.0 0.3 +3.1
John Jaha 30 arb 148 3.7 1.1 +2.0
Kevin Seitzer↔ CLE 34 FA-elig 132 2.7 1.0 +1.3
Scott Karl 24 pre-arb 32 2.4 0.2 +1.9
Greg Vaughn↔ SDP 30 FA-elig 102 2.3 4.1 -2.2
Dave Nilsson 26 arb 123 2.3 1.1 +0.9
Mike Fetters 31 FA-elig 61 1.4 1.7 -0.5
Cal Eldred 28 arb 15 1.3 0.7 +0.3
Fernando Viña 27 arb 140 1.1 0.2 +0.8
Chuck Carr 28 FA-elig 27 0.8 0.3 +0.4
Graeme Lloyd↔ NYY 29 arb 52 0.8 0.2 +0.5
Angel Miranda 26 arb 46 0.7 0.1 +0.5
Tim Van Egmond 27 pre-arb 12 0.7 0.1 +0.5
Doug Jones↔ CHC 39 FA-elig 24 0.7 0.4 +0.2
Matt Mieske 28 arb 127 0.7 0.2 +0.4
Marc Newfield↔ SDP 23 arb 49 0.5 0.1 +0.4
Jesse Levis 28 arb 104 0.3 0.1 +0.1
Brian Banks 25 – 4 0.2 – –
Tim Unroe 25 – 14 0.2 – –
Gerald Williams↔ NYY 29 arb 26 0.2 0.0 +0.1
Kevin Wickander 31 FA-elig 21 0.1 0.3 -0.2
Todd Dunn 25 – 6 0.1 – –
Jeff D'Amico 20 pre-arb 17 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Brian Givens 30 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Mark Kiefer 27 arb 7 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Cris Carpenter 31 FA-elig 8 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jeromy Burnitz↔ CLE 27 arb 23 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Al Reyes 26 – 5 -0.0 – –
Bob Wickman↔ NYY 27 arb 12 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Turner Ward 31 FA-elig 43 -0.1 0.4 -0.5
Bryce Florie↔ SDP 26 pre-arb 15 -0.2 0.0 -0.2
Terry Burrows 27 – 8 -0.2 – –
Danny Perez 25 – 4 -0.2 – –
Ricky Bones↔ NYY 27 arb 33 -0.2 1.3 -1.5
Ron Villone↔ SDP 26 pre-arb 23 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Kevin Koslofski 29 – 25 -0.4 – –
Mark Loretta 24 pre-arb 73 -0.4 0.1 -0.4
David Hulse 28 arb 81 -0.4 0.3 -0.6
Mike Potts 25 pre-arb 24 -0.4 0.1 -0.5
Jose Mercedes 25 – 11 -0.5 – –
Kelly Stinnett 26 pre-arb 14 -0.6 0.1 -0.6
Marshall Boze 25 – 25 -0.6 – –
Ramon Garcia 27 arb 37 -0.7 0.1 -0.7
Mike Matheny 25 pre-arb 106 -0.8 0.1 -0.9
Steve Sparks 31 pre-arb 20 -0.9 0.2 -0.9
Pat Listach 28 arb 87 -1.1 2.2 -3.2

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 39 of them (81%). 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.