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GM: Sal Bando (since 1992)

1998 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.1
WAB — wins above budget
-6.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
-6M
surplus $M (value/$)
25.0
roster fWAR
$33.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jeff Cirillo 28 arb 156 6.5 1.5 +5.5
Jeromy Burnitz 29 arb 161 3.8 0.9 +3.2
Fernando Viña 29 arb 159 3.1 1.1 +2.2
Steve Woodard 23 pre-arb 34 2.7 0.2 +2.8
Mark Loretta 26 arb 140 2.5 0.3 +2.5
Jose Valentin 28 FA-elig 151 1.5 2.1 -0.5
Scott Karl 26 arb 34 1.5 0.8 +0.8
Chad Fox 27 pre-arb 49 1.2 0.2 +1.2
Dave Nilsson 28 FA-elig 102 1.2 3.7 -2.4
Cal Eldred 30 FA-elig 24 1.0 3.3 -2.2
Bob Wickman 29 FA-elig 72 1.0 1.5 -0.5
Marquis Grissom 31 FA-elig 142 0.9 5.0 -4.0
David Weathers↔ CIN 28 FA-elig 28 0.6 0.2 +0.5
Bill Pulsipher↔ NYM 24 – 11 0.4 – –
Bronswell Patrick 27 pre-arb 32 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Jeff Juden↔ ANA 27 FA-elig 24 0.4 0.8 -0.4
Eric Plunk↔ CLE 34 FA-elig 26 0.3 0.7 -0.4
Jesse Levis 30 FA-elig 22 0.3 0.3 -0.1
Brian Banks 27 – 24 0.1 – –
Darrin Jackson 34 FA-elig 114 0.1 0.6 -0.5
John Jaha 32 FA-elig 73 0.1 3.4 -3.3
Bobby Chouinard↔ ARI 26 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Valerio De Los Santos 25 pre-arb 13 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Travis Smith 25 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Mike Myers 29 arb 69 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Greg Mullins 26 – 2 0.0 – –
Geoff Jenkins 23 – 84 -0.0 – –
Ronnie Belliard 23 – 8 -0.0 – –
Marcus Jensen 25 – 2 -0.0 – –
Jose Mercedes 27 arb 7 -0.1 1.1 -1.1
Joe Hudson 27 – 1 -0.1 – –
Bobby Hughes 27 pre-arb 85 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Brad Woodall 29 arb 37 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Greg Martinez 26 pre-arb 13 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Rod Henderson 27 – 2 -0.1 – –
Al Reyes 28 arb 50 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Rafael Roque 26 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Paul Wagner 30 FA-elig 13 -0.3 0.5 -0.8
Marc Newfield 25 arb 93 -0.5 0.3 -0.8
Mike Matheny 27 arb 108 -0.5 0.8 -1.3
Eric Owens 27 arb 34 -0.6 0.2 -0.8
Bob Hamelin 30 arb 109 -0.6 0.5 -1.1
Doug Jones↔ CLE 41 FA-elig 46 -0.9 1.7 -2.7

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 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.