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

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.1
WAB — wins above budget
+6.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–76 (0.531)
record
+11M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.3
roster fWAR
$130.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Corbin Burnes 27 arb 33 4.6 6.5 +10.2
Willy Adames 26 arb 139 4.4 4.6 +11.6
Brandon Woodruff 29 arb 27 3.6 6.8 +6.2
Hunter Renfroe 30 FA-elig 125 2.4 7.7 +1.2
Luis Urías 25 arb 119 2.4 2.5 +6.2
Kolten Wong 31 FA-elig 134 2.3 8.5 +0.0
Devin Williams 27 pre-arb 65 2.2 0.7 +7.4
Christian Yelich 30 FA-elig 154 2.2 26.0 -18.0
Jace Peterson 32 FA-elig 113 2.1 1.8 +5.9
Tyrone Taylor 28 pre-arb 120 2.1 0.7 +6.8
Freddy Peralta 26 arb 18 2.0 2.5 +4.7
Victor Caratini 28 arb 96 1.4 2.0 +3.2
Omar Narváez 30 FA-elig 84 1.3 5.0 -0.2
Eric Lauer 27 arb 29 1.1 2.4 +1.5
Rowdy Tellez 27 arb 153 1.1 1.9 +1.9
Adrian Houser 29 FA-elig 22 1.0 2.4 +1.4
Aaron Ashby 24 pre-arb 27 0.9 0.7 +2.7
Garrett Mitchell 23 – 28 0.8 0.1 +2.8
Brad Boxberger 34 FA-elig 70 0.7 1.8 +1.0
Hoby Milner 31 pre-arb 67 0.7 0.7 +1.9
Keston Hiura 25 pre-arb 80 0.7 0.6 +1.8
Mike Brosseau 28 – 70 0.6 – –
Andrew McCutchen 35 FA-elig 134 0.6 8.5 -6.4
Josh Hader↔ SDP 28 arb 37 0.6 7.3 -5.2
Jonathan Davis 30 pre-arb 37 0.6 0.4 +1.7
Peter Strzelecki 27 – 30 0.4 0.3 +1.3
Jake Cousins 27 pre-arb 12 0.2 0.6 +0.0
Mario Feliciano 23 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Pedro Severino 28 FA-elig 8 0.0 1.9 -1.7
Justin Topa 31 pre-arb 7 0.0 0.6 -0.5
Pablo Reyes 28 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Mark Mathias↔ TEX 27 – 6 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Alex Jackson 26 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Jandel Gustave 29 FA-elig 27 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
J.C. Mejía 25 – 2 -0.1 – –
Luke Barker 30 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Jake McGee↔ SFG 35 FA-elig 6 -0.1 0.4 -0.8
Ethan Small 25 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Connor Sadzeck 30 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
José Ureña↔ COL 30 FA-elig 4 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Trevor Gott 29 arb 45 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Esteury Ruiz↔ SDP 23 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Luis Perdomo 29 arb 14 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Brent Suter 32 FA-elig 54 -0.2 2.7 -3.3
Chi Chi González↔ MIN 30 FA-elig 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Miguel Sánchez 28 pre-arb 12 -0.3 0.5 -1.5
Jason Alexander 29 – 18 -0.3 0.4 -1.5
Matt Bush↔ TEX 36 arb 25 -0.3 0.2 -1.3
Taylor Rogers↔ SDP 31 arb 24 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Trevor Kelley 29 pre-arb 18 -0.5 0.2 -2.0
Lorenzo Cain 36 FA-elig 43 -0.7 18.0 -20.5

51 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 49 of them (96%). 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.