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President of baseball ops: David Stearns (since 2016) · GM: Matt Arnold (since 2021)

2021 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+16.7
WAB — wins above budget
+10.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–67 (0.586)
record · made playoffs
+40M
surplus $M (value/$)
41.5
roster fWAR
$95.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Corbin Burnes 26 pre-arb 28 7.6 0.6 +24.0
Brandon Woodruff 28 arb 30 4.7 3.3 +12.1
Freddy Peralta 25 arb 29 3.8 1.2 +11.2
Willy Adames↔ TBR 25 pre-arb 99 3.2 0.3 +10.0
Omar Narváez 29 arb 123 2.8 2.5 +6.5
Kolten Wong 30 FA-elig 116 2.6 7.5 +1.0
Josh Hader 27 arb 60 2.6 6.7 +1.7
Luis Urías 24 pre-arb 150 2.4 0.6 +7.1
Avisaíl García 30 FA-elig 135 2.3 10.8 -3.3
Eric Lauer 26 pre-arb 26 2.0 0.5 +6.0
Manny Piña 34 FA-elig 75 1.8 1.6 +4.2
Adrian Houser 28 pre-arb 28 1.5 0.6 +4.4
Lorenzo Cain 35 FA-elig 78 1.5 17.0 -12.1
Christian Yelich 29 FA-elig 117 1.4 14.0 -9.4
Devin Williams 26 pre-arb 58 1.4 0.7 +3.8
Tyrone Taylor 27 pre-arb 93 1.3 0.5 +3.8
Brad Boxberger 33 FA-elig 71 0.8 0.1 +2.5
Jace Peterson 31 FA-elig 94 0.8 0.6 +2.1
Brett Anderson 33 FA-elig 24 0.8 2.5 -0.1
Eduardo Escobar↔ ARI 32 FA-elig 48 0.7 2.5 -0.4
Brent Suter 31 arb 61 0.5 1.6 -0.0
Aaron Ashby 23 – 14 0.4 0.1 +1.2
Hunter Strickland↔ ANA 32 FA-elig 35 0.3 0.4 +0.7
Rowdy Tellez↔ TOR 26 pre-arb 56 0.3 0.2 +0.8
Pablo Reyes 27 pre-arb 53 0.3 0.3 +0.6
Luke Maile 30 arb 15 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Jake Cousins 26 – 30 0.2 0.3 +0.2
Trevor Richards↔ TBR 28 – 15 0.1 0.1 +0.4
J.P. Feyereisen↔ TBR 28 – 21 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Jacob Nottingham↔ SEA 26 – 5 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Drew Rasmussen↔ TBR 25 – 15 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Derek Fisher 27 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Mario Feliciano 22 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Blaine Hardy 34 arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Ryan Weber↔ BOS 30 – 1 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Corey Ray 26 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
John Axford 38 FA-elig 1 -0.0 0.3 -0.4
Patrick Weigel 26 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Billy McKinney↔ LAD 26 – 40 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Daniel Vogelbach 28 arb 93 -0.1 1.4 -1.6
Jandel Gustave 28 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Colin Rea 30 arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Jordan Zimmermann 35 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Phil Bickford↔ LAD 25 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Orlando Arcia↔ ATL 26 arb 4 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Miguel Sánchez 27 – 28 -0.2 0.3 -0.8
Justin Topa 30 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Alec Bettinger 25 – 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Hoby Milner 30 arb 19 -0.2 0.6 -1.3
Sal Romano↔ CIN 27 – 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Tim Lopes 27 – 7 -0.2 – –
Angel Perdomo 27 pre-arb 19 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Zack Godley 31 FA-elig 2 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
John Curtiss↔ MIA 28 pre-arb 6 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Josh Lindblom 34 FA-elig 8 -0.3 3.0 -4.1
Daniel Robertson 27 arb 50 -0.4 0.9 -2.1
Eric Yardley 30 pre-arb 17 -0.4 0.2 -1.5
Daniel Norris↔ DET 28 FA-elig 18 -0.4 1.1 -2.5
Travis Shaw↔ BOS 31 FA-elig 56 -0.5 1.0 -2.5
Keston Hiura 24 pre-arb 61 -0.8 0.3 -2.9
Jackie Bradley Jr. 31 FA-elig 134 -1.7 6.5 -12.1

61 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 60 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.