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GM: Douglas Melvin (since 2003)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-9.9
WAB — wins above budget
-7.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
68–94 (0.420)
record
-18M
surplus $M (value/$)
22.5
roster fWAR
$88.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ryan Braun 31 FA-elig 140 3.2 13.0 -3.1
Gerardo Parra↔ BAL 28 FA-elig 100 2.4 4.0 +3.5
Adam Lind 31 FA-elig 149 2.0 7.5 -1.3
Taylor Jungmann 25 – 21 1.9 0.3 +5.7
Jimmy Nelson 26 pre-arb 30 1.7 0.5 +4.9
Mike Fiers↔ HOU 30 arb 21 1.6 0.3 +4.8
Jonathan Lucroy 29 arb 103 1.6 3.0 +2.0
Carlos Gómez↔ HOU 29 FA-elig 74 1.5 5.1 -0.6
Will Smith 25 arb 76 1.3 0.5 +3.7
Khris Davis 27 pre-arb 121 1.2 0.5 +3.3
Aramis Ramirez↔ PIT 37 FA-elig 81 1.1 8.3 -4.9
Martín Maldonado 28 arb 79 1.1 0.8 +2.5
Francisco Rodríguez 33 FA-elig 60 1.0 3.5 -0.5
Jeremy Jeffress 27 arb 72 0.7 0.5 +1.8
Jason Rogers 27 pre-arb 86 0.7 0.5 +1.6
Michael Blazek 26 pre-arb 45 0.6 0.5 +1.3
Domingo Santana↔ HOU 22 pre-arb 38 0.4 0.1 +1.3
Hernán Pérez↔ DET 24 arb 90 0.4 0.4 +0.8
Zach Davies 22 – 6 0.4 0.1 +1.0
Ariel Peña 26 pre-arb 6 0.3 0.1 +0.9
Elian Herrera 30 pre-arb 83 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Yhonathan Barrios 23 – 5 0.2 0.0 +0.5
Jorge López 22 – 2 0.2 0.0 +0.5
Shane Peterson 27 pre-arb 93 0.2 0.3 +0.2
Scooter Gennett 25 pre-arb 114 0.2 0.5 +0.0
Cesar Jimenez↔ PHI 30 FA-elig 16 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Jonathan Broxton↔ STL 31 FA-elig 40 0.1 5.5 -5.1
Matt Garza 31 FA-elig 26 0.1 12.5 -12.3
Jean Segura 25 arb 142 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Corey Knebel 23 pre-arb 48 0.0 0.4 -0.2
Wily Peralta 26 arb 20 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Michael Reed 22 pre-arb 7 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Tyler Cravy 25 pre-arb 14 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Adrian Houser 22 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
David Goforth 26 pre-arb 20 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Tyler Wagner 24 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Kyle Lohse 36 FA-elig 41 -0.1 11.0 -11.2
Brandon Kintzler 30 arb 7 -0.1 1.1 -1.4
Preston Guilmet↔ TBR 27 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Rob Wooten 29 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Yadiel Rivera 23 – 7 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Luis Jimenez↔ BOS 27 pre-arb 15 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Neal Cotts↔ MIN 35 FA-elig 51 -0.2 2.2 -2.9
Nevin Ashley 30 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Logan Schafer 28 arb 69 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Tyler Thornburg 26 arb 24 -0.4 0.5 -1.8
Juan Centeno 25 pre-arb 10 -0.5 0.5 -2.1
Héctor Gómez 27 arb 66 -0.5 0.5 -2.2
Luis Sardinas 22 pre-arb 36 -0.7 0.1 -2.4

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.