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President of baseball ops: David Stearns (since 2016)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+11.9
WAB — wins above budget
+12.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–76 (0.531)
record
+62M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.4
roster fWAR
$71.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Travis Shaw 27 pre-arb 144 4.9 0.5 +15.9
Jimmy Nelson 28 arb 29 4.6 0.5 +14.8
Domingo Santana 24 arb 151 3.2 0.5 +10.3
Chase Anderson 29 arb 25 3.0 2.5 +7.8
Zach Davies 24 pre-arb 33 3.0 0.5 +9.4
Corey Knebel 25 arb 76 2.8 0.5 +8.7
Eric Thames 30 FA-elig 138 2.5 4.0 +4.3
Orlando Arcia 22 pre-arb 153 2.1 0.5 +6.5
Manny Piña 30 FA-elig 107 1.6 0.5 +4.9
Eric Sogard 31 arb 94 1.6 0.4 +5.0
Ryan Braun 33 FA-elig 104 1.6 20.0 -14.6
Brent Suter 27 pre-arb 23 1.5 0.3 +4.9
Keon Broxton 27 pre-arb 143 1.4 0.5 +4.3
Jesús Aguilar 27 arb 133 1.2 0.5 +3.6
Neil Walker↔ NYM 31 FA-elig 38 1.0 5.9 -2.5
Josh Hader 23 – 35 1.0 0.3 +3.0
Hernán Pérez 26 arb 136 1.0 0.5 +2.7
Brett Phillips 23 – 37 0.8 0.2 +2.5
Matt Garza 33 FA-elig 24 0.7 12.5 -10.1
Jacob Barnes 27 pre-arb 73 0.7 0.5 +1.8
Brandon Woodruff 24 – 8 0.6 0.3 +1.8
Oliver Drake↔ BAL 30 pre-arb 61 0.5 0.5 +1.3
Anthony Swarzak↔ CHW 31 FA-elig 29 0.5 0.4 +1.4
Jared Hughes 31 FA-elig 67 0.5 0.9 +0.6
Jonathan Villar 26 arb 122 0.4 0.6 +0.9
Stephen Vogt↔ OAK 32 arb 45 0.4 1.3 -0.0
Aaron Wilkerson 28 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.4
Jeremy Jeffress↔ TEX 29 FA-elig 22 0.1 0.8 -0.4
Tommy Milone↔ NYM 30 FA-elig 6 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Wily Peralta 28 arb 19 0.1 4.3 -4.0
Taylor Williams 25 – 5 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Jorge López 24 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
David Goforth 28 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Taylor Jungmann 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Wei-Chung Wang 25 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Yadiel Rivera 25 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Quintin Berry 32 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Tyler Webb↔ NYY 26 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Jett Bandy 27 pre-arb 60 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Jhan Mariñez↔ PIT 28 FA-elig 15 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Lewis Brinson 23 – 21 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Nick Franklin↔ ANA 26 – 53 -0.1 0.2 -0.7
Andrew Susac 27 arb 8 -0.2 0.5 -1.3
Kirk Nieuwenhuis 29 arb 16 -0.2 0.9 -1.7
Paolo Espino↔ TEX 30 – 6 -0.2 0.0 -0.9
Carlos Torres 34 FA-elig 67 -0.3 2.2 -3.1
Rob Scahill 30 pre-arb 18 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
Michael Blazek 28 pre-arb 5 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Neftalí Feliz↔ KCR 29 FA-elig 29 -0.8 3.2 -5.9
Junior Guerra 32 pre-arb 21 -1.0 0.5 -3.8

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.