Rosternomics
𝕏

Brewers MIL

Switch team:

GM: Douglas Melvin (since 2003)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

‹ Prev Next ›
-4.3
WAB — wins above budget
-3.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
-5M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.4
roster fWAR
$78.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Carlos Gómez 27 FA-elig 147 6.7 4.3 +13.7
Jonathan Lucroy 27 arb 147 6.6 0.8 +16.9
Jean Segura 23 pre-arb 146 4.0 0.5 +10.2
Norichika Aoki 31 pre-arb 155 2.2 2.0 +3.8
Scooter Gennett 23 – 69 2.0 0.2 +5.1
Yovani Gallardo 27 FA-elig 33 2.0 7.8 -2.5
Ryan Braun 29 FA-elig 61 1.6 8.5 -4.1
Marco Estrada 29 arb 21 1.6 2.0 +2.2
Kyle Lohse 34 FA-elig 33 1.5 11.0 -6.9
Khris Davis 25 pre-arb 56 1.3 0.5 +3.1
Aramis Ramirez 35 FA-elig 92 1.3 10.0 -6.5
Brandon Kintzler 28 arb 71 1.2 0.5 +2.8
Tyler Thornburg 24 pre-arb 19 0.8 0.3 +1.9
Wily Peralta 24 pre-arb 32 0.8 0.5 +1.6
Caleb Gindl 24 pre-arb 57 0.7 0.2 +1.5
Martín Maldonado 26 pre-arb 67 0.4 0.5 +0.7
Tom Gorzelanny 30 FA-elig 43 0.4 2.8 -1.8
Francisco Rodríguez↔ BAL 31 – 25 0.3 0.7 +0.1
Rob Wooten 27 pre-arb 27 0.3 0.2 +0.6
Jim Henderson 30 pre-arb 61 0.2 0.5 +0.0
Burke Badenhop 30 arb 63 0.1 1.6 -1.2
Jimmy Nelson 24 – 4 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Jeff Bianchi 26 pre-arb 100 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Chris Narveson 31 FA-elig 2 -0.0 0.8 -0.9
Michael Blazek↔ STL 24 – 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Sean Halton 26 – 42 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Josh Prince 25 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Logan Schafer 26 pre-arb 134 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Hiram Burgos 25 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Rickie Weeks Jr. 30 FA-elig 104 -0.2 10.0 -10.6
Donovan Hand 27 – 31 -0.5 0.3 -1.6
Blake Lalli 30 pre-arb 16 -0.5 0.1 -1.4
Alfredo Figaro 28 pre-arb 33 -0.5 0.6 -1.9
Juan Francisco↔ ATL 26 arb 89 -0.6 0.4 -2.0
Michael Gonzalez 35 FA-elig 75 -0.7 2.2 -4.0
Mike Fiers 28 pre-arb 11 -0.7 0.5 -2.3
John Axford↔ STL 30 arb 62 -0.7 4.1 -6.1
Álex González 36 FA-elig 41 -0.9 1.5 -3.9
Johnny Hellweg 24 pre-arb 8 -0.9 0.1 -2.5
Yuniesky Betancourt 31 FA-elig 137 -1.8 0.9 -5.8

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.