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GM: Douglas Melvin (since 2003)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+14.2
WAB — wins above budget
+13.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
96–66 (0.593)
record · made playoffs
+23M
surplus $M (value/$)
47.5
roster fWAR
$93.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ryan Braun 27 arb 150 7.1 4.3 +13.0
Jonathan Lucroy 25 pre-arb 136 6.0 0.4 +14.3
Prince Fielder 27 FA-elig 162 4.7 15.5 -4.0
Corey Hart 29 FA-elig 130 3.7 6.8 +2.3
Nyjer Morgan 30 arb 119 3.7 0.5 +8.5
Zack Greinke 27 FA-elig 29 3.4 13.5 -5.3
Yovani Gallardo 25 arb 33 3.3 3.5 +4.6
Rickie Weeks Jr. 28 FA-elig 118 3.3 4.5 +3.6
Shaun Marcum 29 FA-elig 33 3.0 4.0 +3.5
Randy Wolf 34 FA-elig 33 2.3 9.5 -3.8
Carlos Gómez 25 arb 94 2.2 1.5 +3.8
John Axford 28 pre-arb 74 1.5 0.4 +3.3
Chris Narveson 29 arb 30 1.5 0.4 +3.2
Kameron Loe 29 FA-elig 72 1.0 1.2 +1.2
Marco Estrada 27 pre-arb 43 0.7 0.4 +1.4
Francisco Rodríguez↔ NYM 29 FA-elig 31 0.7 5.2 -3.5
LaTroy Hawkins 38 FA-elig 52 0.7 4.2 -2.6
Jerry Hairston Jr.↔ WSN 35 FA-elig 45 0.7 0.8 +0.9
Craig Counsell 40 FA-elig 107 0.4 1.4 -0.3
George Kottaras 28 arb 49 0.2 0.4 +0.1
Takashi Saito 41 arb 30 0.2 1.8 -1.2
Tim Dillard 27 pre-arb 24 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Taylor Green 24 pre-arb 20 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Logan Schafer 24 – 8 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Mark Kotsay 35 FA-elig 104 0.1 0.8 -0.6
Mike McClendon 26 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Brandon Boggs 28 – 16 0.1 – –
Sean Green 32 arb 14 0.0 0.9 -0.8
Frankie De La Cruz 27 – 11 0.0 – –
Mike Rivera 34 – 1 0.0 – –
Josh Wilson↔ ARI 30 FA-elig 54 0.0 0.7 -0.6
Martín Maldonado 24 – 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Mike Fiers 26 – 2 -0.0 – –
Eric Farris 25 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Mark DiFelice 34 – 3 -0.1 – –
Brandon Kintzler 26 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Brett Carroll 28 – 2 -0.1 – –
Zach Braddock 23 pre-arb 25 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Yuniesky Betancourt 29 FA-elig 152 -0.1 4.3 -4.7
Sergio Mitre↔ NYY 30 FA-elig 22 -0.2 0.8 -1.1
Mitch Stetter 30 arb 16 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Jeremy Reed 30 FA-elig 7 -0.2 0.6 -1.0
Daniel Herrera↔ NYM 26 – 2 -0.2 – –
Casey McGehee 28 arb 155 -0.3 0.5 -1.3
Wil Nieves 33 FA-elig 20 -0.4 0.8 -1.8
Mat Gamel 25 pre-arb 10 -0.5 0.4 -1.5
Felipe Lopez↔ TBR 31 – 16 -0.5 0.1 -1.3
Erick Almonte 33 FA-elig 16 -0.7 0.4 -2.1

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 of them (85%). 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.