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GM: Douglas Melvin (since 2003)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+1.5
WAB — wins above budget
+8.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
83–79 (0.512)
record
+6M
surplus $M (value/$)
42.1
roster fWAR
$96.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ryan Braun 28 arb 154 6.8 6.0 +11.5
Jonathan Lucroy 26 pre-arb 96 5.6 0.5 +13.9
Aramis Ramirez 34 FA-elig 149 5.4 6.0 +8.0
Zack Greinke↔ ANA 28 FA-elig 24 3.7 8.8 +0.7
Marco Estrada 28 arb 29 2.8 0.5 +6.7
Carlos Gómez 26 arb 137 2.6 2.0 +4.6
Mike Fiers 27 – 23 2.5 – –
Norichika Aoki 30 pre-arb 151 2.4 1.0 +5.3
Corey Hart 30 FA-elig 149 2.2 9.0 -3.4
Yovani Gallardo 26 arb 33 2.2 5.5 +0.1
Martín Maldonado 25 pre-arb 78 2.1 0.5 +4.8
Rickie Weeks Jr. 29 FA-elig 157 1.6 10.0 -6.0
Shaun Marcum 30 FA-elig 22 1.2 7.7 -4.7
Jim Henderson 29 – 36 0.8 – –
Wily Peralta 23 – 6 0.7 0.5 +1.4
Mark Rogers 26 pre-arb 8 0.6 0.5 +1.1
George Kottaras↔ OAK 29 arb 58 0.6 0.5 +1.0
Randy Wolf↔ BAL 35 FA-elig 26 0.6 8.0 -6.5
Jose Veras 31 FA-elig 72 0.3 2.0 -1.2
Manny Parra 29 arb 62 0.3 1.2 -0.4
Álex González 35 FA-elig 24 0.3 4.2 -3.5
Logan Schafer 25 pre-arb 16 0.3 0.5 +0.2
Francisco Rodríguez 30 FA-elig 78 0.3 8.0 -7.4
Vinnie Chulk 33 arb 7 0.1 0.9 -0.6
Travis Ishikawa 28 FA-elig 94 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Cody Ransom↔ ARI 36 – 64 0.1 0.3 -0.0
Brandon Kintzler 27 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Tim Dillard 28 arb 34 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Mat Gamel 26 arb 21 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Jeff Bianchi 25 pre-arb 33 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Edwin Maysonet 30 pre-arb 30 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Eric Farris 26 pre-arb 13 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
John Axford 29 arb 75 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Yorvit Torrealba↔ TEX 33 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Josh Stinson 24 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Mike McClendon 27 – 9 -0.1 – –
Kameron Loe 30 FA-elig 70 -0.2 2.2 -2.6
Chris Narveson 30 FA-elig 2 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Jean Segura↔ ANA 22 – 44 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Taylor Green 25 pre-arb 58 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Juan Pablo Perez 33 – 10 -0.3 – –
Nyjer Morgan 31 arb 122 -0.4 2.4 -3.3
Tyler Thornburg 23 – 8 -0.4 0.5 -1.5
Cesar Izturis↔ WSN 32 FA-elig 57 -0.5 0.8 -2.1
Brooks Conrad↔ TBR 32 – 25 -0.5 – –
Livan Hernandez↔ ATL 37 FA-elig 26 -0.6 0.4 -2.1

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 of them (89%). 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.