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President of baseball ops: David Stearns (since 2016)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+16.8
WAB — wins above budget
+11.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
96–67 (0.589)
record · made playoffs
+43M
surplus $M (value/$)
42.6
roster fWAR
$101.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Christian Yelich 26 arb 147 7.7 7.0 +19.1
Lorenzo Cain 32 FA-elig 141 6.0 14.0 +6.3
Travis Shaw 28 arb 152 3.7 0.6 +12.0
Jesús Aguilar 28 arb 149 3.0 0.6 +9.7
Josh Hader 24 pre-arb 55 2.6 0.6 +8.4
Jhoulys Chacín 30 FA-elig 36 2.4 8.8 -0.4
Manny Piña 31 FA-elig 98 1.8 0.6 +5.6
Jeremy Jeffress 30 FA-elig 73 1.7 1.7 +4.1
Junior Guerra 33 pre-arb 31 1.5 0.5 +4.5
Wade Miley 31 FA-elig 16 1.3 2.5 +2.1
Brent Suter 28 pre-arb 21 1.3 0.6 +3.9
Erik Kratz 38 arb 67 1.1 0.4 +3.3
Ryan Braun 34 FA-elig 125 1.0 20.0 -16.6
Keon Broxton 28 pre-arb 51 1.0 0.2 +3.1
Freddy Peralta 22 – 16 0.9 0.5 +2.7
Corey Knebel 26 arb 57 0.9 3.6 -0.5
Jonathan Villar↔ BAL 27 arb 87 0.7 1.6 +1.0
Mike Moustakas↔ KCR 29 FA-elig 54 0.7 2.0 +0.5
Brandon Woodruff 25 pre-arb 19 0.7 0.6 +1.8
Domingo Santana 25 arb 85 0.7 0.6 +1.7
Hernán Pérez 27 FA-elig 132 0.6 2.0 -0.0
Gio Gonzalez↔ WSN 32 FA-elig 5 0.5 1.9 -0.2
Joakim Soria↔ CHW 34 FA-elig 26 0.5 3.5 -2.0
Eric Thames 31 FA-elig 96 0.5 5.0 -3.5
Zach Davies 25 arb 13 0.4 0.6 +0.7
Jordan Lyles↔ SDP 27 FA-elig 11 0.3 0.2 +0.9
Curtis Granderson↔ TOR 37 FA-elig 19 0.3 0.8 +0.3
Jacob Barnes 28 pre-arb 49 0.3 0.6 +0.5
Taylor Williams 26 pre-arb 56 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Dan Jennings 31 arb 72 0.2 0.8 +0.1
Oliver Drake↔ ANA 31 arb 11 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Corbin Burnes 23 – 30 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Xavier Cedeño↔ CHW 31 arb 15 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Tyler Saladino↔ CHW 28 arb 52 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Adrian Houser 25 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Jorge López↔ KCR 25 – 10 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Alec Asher 26 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Jacob Nottingham 23 – 9 0.0 0.2 -0.0
Ji Man Choi↔ TBR 27 pre-arb 12 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Brett Phillips↔ KCR 24 – 15 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Nate Orf 28 pre-arb 15 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Chase Anderson 30 arb 30 -0.0 4.8 -4.8
Mike Zagurski 35 arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Orlando Arcia 23 pre-arb 119 -0.0 0.6 -0.6
Nick Franklin 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.4 -0.6
Jonathan Schoop↔ BAL 26 arb 46 -0.1 3.0 -3.2
Aaron Wilkerson 29 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Jett Bandy 28 arb 24 -0.2 0.6 -1.2
Brad Miller↔ TBR 28 arb 27 -0.2 1.6 -2.4
J.J. Hoover 30 – 2 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Boone Logan 33 FA-elig 16 -0.3 1.9 -2.8
Eric Sogard 32 FA-elig 55 -0.7 2.4 -4.9
Matt Albers 35 FA-elig 34 -0.9 2.5 -5.5

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.