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President of baseball ops: David Stearns (since 2016)

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-1.0 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+10.0 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
29–31 (0.483)
record · made playoffs
+12M
surplus $M (value/$)
15.5
roster fWAR
$96.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Corbin Burnes 25 pre-arb 12 2.4 0.2 +17.5
Brandon Woodruff 27 pre-arb 13 2.1 0.2 +14.8
Devin Williams 25 pre-arb 22 1.4 0.2 +9.9
Orlando Arcia 25 arb 59 1.0 2.2 +4.8
Jedd Gyorko 31 FA-elig 43 0.9 1.0 +5.3
Christian Yelich 28 FA-elig 58 0.9 12.5 -6.2
Freddy Peralta 24 pre-arb 15 0.8 0.4 +5.8
Josh Lindblom 33 FA-elig 12 0.8 3.0 +3.0
Brent Suter 30 arb 16 0.7 0.9 +4.0
Manny Piña 33 FA-elig 15 0.7 1.9 +2.9
Daniel Vogelbach↔ SEA 27 – 19 0.6 – –
Brett Anderson 32 FA-elig 10 0.6 5.0 -0.9
Omar Narváez 28 arb 40 0.5 2.7 +1.3
Keston Hiura 23 pre-arb 59 0.5 0.2 +3.3
Jacob Nottingham 25 pre-arb 20 0.4 0.1 +3.1
Avisaíl García 29 FA-elig 53 0.4 7.2 -4.1
Adrian Houser 27 pre-arb 12 0.4 0.2 +2.8
Luis Urías 23 pre-arb 41 0.4 0.2 +2.4
Jace Peterson 30 FA-elig 26 0.3 0.1 +2.3
David Phelps↔ PHI 33 FA-elig 12 0.3 0.7 +1.7
Josh Hader 26 arb 21 0.3 4.1 -2.0
Tyrone Taylor 26 pre-arb 22 0.2 0.1 +1.7
Ryan Braun 36 FA-elig 39 0.2 17.0 -15.3
Lorenzo Cain 34 FA-elig 5 0.2 16.0 -14.6
Justin Topa 29 – 6 0.2 0.1 +1.3
Eric Yardley 29 pre-arb 24 0.1 0.6 +0.4
Alex Claudio 28 FA-elig 20 0.1 1.8 -1.1
Ben Gamel 28 arb 40 0.1 1.4 -0.8
Mark Mathias 25 – 16 0.0 0.1 +0.2
Ray Black 30 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Phil Bickford 24 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Drew Rasmussen 24 – 12 -0.0 0.1 -0.4
Angel Perdomo 26 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Ryon Healy 28 arb 4 -0.1 1.0 -1.8
Eric Sogard 34 FA-elig 43 -0.1 4.0 -5.1
J.P. Feyereisen 27 – 6 -0.2 0.1 -1.3
Eric Lauer 25 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.1 -1.2
Brock Holt↔ WSN 32 FA-elig 16 -0.2 1.1 -2.4
Bobby Wahl 28 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.0 -1.4
Logan Morrison 32 – 9 -0.2 0.1 -1.5
Corey Knebel 28 FA-elig 15 -0.2 5.1 -6.7
Justin Grimm 31 – 4 -0.2 0.2 -2.0
Justin Smoak↔ SFG 33 FA-elig 33 -0.4 3.7 -6.5

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 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.