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GM: Matt Arnold (since 2021)

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+11.8
WAB — wins above budget
+1.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
92–70 (0.568)
record · made playoffs
+3M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.5
roster fWAR
$133.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
William Contreras 25 arb 141 5.8 0.7 +22.3
Christian Yelich 31 FA-elig 144 3.8 26.0 -11.1
Corbin Burnes 28 arb 32 3.4 10.0 +3.5
Willy Adames 27 arb 149 3.4 8.7 +4.8
Freddy Peralta 27 arb 30 3.0 3.7 +8.2
Devin Williams 28 arb 61 1.8 3.4 +3.8
Adrian Houser 30 FA-elig 23 1.7 3.6 +3.3
Brandon Woodruff 30 FA-elig 11 1.4 10.8 -5.1
Joel Payamps 29 arb 69 1.2 0.7 +3.9
Victor Caratini 29 FA-elig 62 1.2 2.8 +1.8
Sal Frelick 23 – 57 1.1 0.3 +4.2
Blake Perkins 26 – 67 1.1 0.5 +3.7
Wade Miley 36 FA-elig 23 1.0 3.5 +0.6
Tyrone Taylor 29 arb 81 1.0 0.7 +3.3
Hoby Milner 32 FA-elig 73 1.0 1.0 +2.9
Joey Wiemer 24 – 132 1.0 0.7 +3.2
Owen Miller 26 pre-arb 90 0.9 0.7 +3.0
Mark Canha↔ NYM 34 FA-elig 50 0.9 4.1 -0.5
Trevor Megill 29 pre-arb 31 0.8 0.4 +2.9
Colin Rea 32 arb 26 0.8 0.6 +2.4
Carlos Santana↔ PIT 37 FA-elig 52 0.7 2.4 +0.4
Abner Uribe 23 – 32 0.6 0.3 +2.0
Andruw Monasterio 26 – 92 0.6 0.5 +1.8
Elvis Peguero 26 pre-arb 59 0.6 0.7 +1.6
Brian Anderson 30 FA-elig 96 0.4 3.5 -2.1
Bryse Wilson 25 arb 53 0.3 0.7 +0.5
Peter Strzelecki↔ ARI 28 pre-arb 36 0.3 0.7 +0.5
Julio Teheran 32 FA-elig 14 0.3 1.5 -0.3
Garrett Mitchell 24 pre-arb 19 0.3 0.7 +0.4
Abraham Toro 26 arb 9 0.2 1.2 -0.3
Thomas Pannone 29 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.4
J.B. Bukauskas↔ SEA 26 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Josh Donaldson↔ NYY 37 FA-elig 17 0.1 7.2 -7.0
Thyago Vieira 30 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Janson Junk 27 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Alex Claudio 31 FA-elig 1 0.0 0.1 -0.1
J.C. Mejía 26 – 9 0.0 – –
Ethan Small 26 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Jahmai Jones 25 pre-arb 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Bennett Sousa↔ HOU 28 – 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Caleb Boushley 29 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Tyson Miller↔ LAD 27 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Brice Turang 23 – 137 -0.1 0.6 -1.2
Jake Cousins 28 – 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.7
Javy Guerra↔ TBR 27 arb 8 -0.1 0.3 -0.9
Darin Ruf↔ SFG 36 FA-elig 11 -0.2 1.6 -2.3
Luis Urías↔ BOS 26 arb 20 -0.2 1.8 -2.6
Andrew Chafin↔ ARI 33 FA-elig 20 -0.3 1.7 -2.8
Raimel Tapia↔ BOS 29 FA-elig 20 -0.3 0.6 -1.8
Gus Varland↔ LAD 26 – 8 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Clayton Andrews 26 – 4 -0.3 0.1 -1.4
Jon Singleton↔ HOU 31 – 11 -0.4 0.1 -1.6
Luke Voit 32 FA-elig 22 -0.4 2.0 -3.7
Mike Brosseau 29 arb 29 -0.5 1.4 -3.3
Rowdy Tellez 28 arb 106 -0.7 5.0 -7.6
Matt Bush 37 FA-elig 12 -0.7 1.9 -4.7
Jesse Winker 29 FA-elig 61 -0.8 8.2 -11.3
Eric Lauer 28 arb 10 -0.9 5.1 -8.4

58 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 57 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.