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President of baseball ops: David Stearns (since 2016)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.8
WAB — wins above budget
+0.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
73–89 (0.451)
record
+20M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.0
roster fWAR
$66.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jonathan Villar 25 arb 156 3.4 0.5 +10.6
Ryan Braun 32 FA-elig 135 3.3 20.0 -9.2
Jonathan Lucroy↔ TEX 30 FA-elig 95 3.0 2.7 +7.0
Junior Guerra 31 pre-arb 20 2.5 0.4 +7.5
Zach Davies 23 pre-arb 28 2.2 0.4 +6.7
Chris Carter 29 FA-elig 160 2.2 2.5 +4.6
Keon Broxton 26 pre-arb 75 2.0 0.5 +5.9
Tyler Thornburg 27 arb 67 1.9 0.5 +5.6
Martín Maldonado 29 arb 76 1.5 1.1 +3.7
Hernán Pérez 25 pre-arb 123 1.5 0.4 +4.3
Aaron Hill↔ BOS 34 FA-elig 78 1.5 7.5 -2.8
Matt Garza 32 FA-elig 19 1.0 12.5 -9.3
Scooter Gennett 26 arb 136 0.8 0.5 +2.0
Jeremy Jeffress↔ TEX 28 FA-elig 47 0.7 0.4 +2.0
Wily Peralta 27 arb 23 0.7 2.8 -0.7
Carlos Torres 33 FA-elig 72 0.6 0.9 +1.0
Jacob Barnes 26 – 27 0.5 0.3 +1.4
Kirk Nieuwenhuis 28 arb 125 0.5 0.5 +1.1
Jhan Mariñez↔ TBR 27 pre-arb 43 0.4 0.4 +1.0
Corey Knebel 24 pre-arb 35 0.4 0.5 +0.7
Blaine Boyer 34 FA-elig 61 0.3 0.9 +0.0
Domingo Santana 23 pre-arb 77 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Manny Piña 29 – 33 0.3 – –
Chase Anderson 28 pre-arb 31 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Orlando Arcia 21 – 55 0.2 0.2 +0.5
Jimmy Nelson 27 arb 32 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Rob Scahill↔ PIT 29 pre-arb 16 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Brent Suter 26 – 14 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Tyler Cravy 26 pre-arb 20 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Will Smith↔ SFG 26 arb 27 0.1 0.8 -0.4
Ben Rowen 27 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Andrew Susac 26 pre-arb 9 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Michael Kirkman↔ SDP 29 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Damien Magnifico 25 – 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Josmil Pinto 27 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Neil Ramírez↔ CHC 27 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
David Goforth 27 pre-arb 10 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Yadiel Rivera 24 pre-arb 35 -0.1 0.5 -1.0
Michael Reed 23 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.0 -0.5
Will Middlebrooks 27 arb 10 -0.2 1.2 -1.7
Sam Freeman 29 arb 7 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Andy Wilkins 27 pre-arb 26 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Ariel Peña 27 pre-arb 1 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Taylor Jungmann 26 pre-arb 8 -0.2 0.5 -1.3
Colin Walsh 26 pre-arb 38 -0.4 0.5 -1.7
Alex Presley↔ DET 30 – 47 -0.5 0.2 -1.8
Chris Capuano 37 FA-elig 16 -0.5 1.5 -3.2
Jake Elmore 29 pre-arb 59 -0.5 0.3 -2.0
Michael Blazek 27 arb 42 -0.6 0.5 -2.5
Ramón Flores 24 pre-arb 104 -1.5 0.5 -5.5

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 49 of them (98%). 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.