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President of baseball ops: David Stearns (since 2016)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.7
WAB — wins above budget
+1.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
89–73 (0.549)
record · made playoffs
-7M
surplus $M (value/$)
35.6
roster fWAR
$123.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Christian Yelich 27 FA-elig 130 6.6 9.8 +12.0
Yasmani Grandal 30 FA-elig 153 5.7 16.0 +2.8
Brandon Woodruff 26 pre-arb 27 3.8 0.6 +11.8
Mike Moustakas 30 FA-elig 143 2.7 7.0 +2.0
Eric Thames 32 FA-elig 149 2.3 6.0 +1.6
Josh Hader 25 pre-arb 61 2.2 0.7 +6.6
Keston Hiura 22 – 84 2.2 0.3 +7.0
Ryan Braun 35 FA-elig 144 2.0 19.0 -12.3
Zach Davies 26 arb 35 1.6 2.6 +2.6
Adrian Houser 26 pre-arb 35 1.5 0.5 +4.3
Lorenzo Cain 33 FA-elig 148 1.4 15.0 -10.3
Manny Piña 32 FA-elig 76 1.3 1.6 +2.6
Gio Gonzalez 33 FA-elig 19 1.2 2.0 +1.9
Chase Anderson 31 arb 33 1.1 6.5 -3.0
Freddy Peralta 23 pre-arb 40 0.8 0.6 +2.2
Trent Grisham 22 – 51 0.7 0.2 +2.1
Jordan Lyles↔ PIT 28 FA-elig 11 0.7 0.8 +1.5
Drew Pomeranz↔ SFG 30 FA-elig 25 0.7 0.8 +1.5
Ben Gamel 27 arb 134 0.5 0.6 +1.0
Brent Suter 29 arb 9 0.5 0.6 +0.9
Jeremy Jeffress 31 FA-elig 48 0.3 3.2 -2.1
Cory Spangenberg 28 arb 32 0.3 1.2 -0.2
Junior Guerra 34 arb 72 0.3 2.2 -1.3
Tyrone Taylor 25 – 15 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Jacob Nottingham 24 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Jhoulys Chacín↔ BOS 31 FA-elig 19 0.1 5.1 -4.8
Taylor Williams 27 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.6 -0.3
Tyler Austin↔ MIN 27 arb 17 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Donnie Hart↔ NYM 28 – 4 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Jake Petricka 31 – 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Devin Williams 24 – 13 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Matt Albers 36 FA-elig 67 -0.0 2.5 -2.6
Mauricio Dubón↔ SFG 24 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Jay Jackson 31 pre-arb 28 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Jacob Barnes↔ KCR 29 arb 18 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Deolis Guerra 30 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Aaron Wilkerson 30 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
David Freitas↔ SEA 30 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.5 -1.0
Jimmy Nelson 30 FA-elig 10 -0.2 3.7 -4.3
Jesús Aguilar↔ TBR 29 arb 94 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Burch Smith↔ SFG 29 – 7 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Alex Claudio 27 arb 83 -0.2 1.3 -2.0
Jake Faria↔ TBR 25 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Alex Wilson 32 FA-elig 13 -0.3 0.8 -1.6
Corbin Burnes 24 pre-arb 32 -0.3 0.6 -1.5
Tyler Saladino 29 arb 28 -0.3 0.9 -1.9
Ray Black↔ SFG 29 pre-arb 15 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Hernán Pérez 28 FA-elig 91 -0.6 2.5 -4.3
Orlando Arcia 24 arb 152 -0.9 0.6 -3.6
Travis Shaw 29 arb 86 -1.2 4.7 -8.6

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.