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GM: Matt Arnold (since 2021)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+15.1
WAB — wins above budget
+10.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
93–69 (0.574)
record · made playoffs
+50M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.5
roster fWAR
$118.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
William Contreras 26 arb 155 5.5 0.8 +22.1
Willy Adames 28 FA-elig 161 4.8 12.2 +7.9
Jackson Chourio 20 pre-arb 148 3.9 2.2 +14.1
Joey Ortiz 25 pre-arb 142 3.2 0.7 +12.6
Christian Yelich 32 FA-elig 73 3.0 26.0 -13.4
Brice Turang 24 pre-arb 155 2.6 0.7 +9.9
Freddy Peralta 28 FA-elig 32 2.3 5.7 +3.7
Tobias Myers 25 pre-arb 27 2.1 0.7 +8.1
Garrett Mitchell 25 pre-arb 69 1.9 0.7 +7.0
Blake Perkins 27 pre-arb 121 1.6 0.8 +5.7
Sal Frelick 24 pre-arb 145 1.5 0.7 +5.6
Trevor Megill 30 arb 48 1.0 0.8 +3.3
Jared Koenig 30 pre-arb 55 0.9 0.7 +3.1
Hoby Milner 33 FA-elig 61 0.9 2.0 +1.7
Joe Ross 31 FA-elig 25 0.9 1.8 +2.0
Devin Williams 29 arb 22 0.8 7.0 -3.5
Colin Rea 33 FA-elig 32 0.8 3.5 -0.1
Bryan Hudson 27 pre-arb 43 0.7 0.7 +2.3
Robert Gasser 25 pre-arb 5 0.7 0.7 +2.1
Aaron Ashby 26 arb 14 0.6 1.4 +1.1
Joel Payamps 30 arb 68 0.5 1.6 +0.6
Aaron Civale↔ TBR 29 arb 14 0.5 2.2 -0.1
Frankie Montas↔ CIN 31 FA-elig 11 0.5 5.1 -3.1
Gary Sánchez 31 FA-elig 89 0.4 3.0 -1.4
Eric Haase 31 arb 30 0.2 0.6 +0.4
Rob Zastryzny 32 pre-arb 9 0.2 0.4 +0.5
Enoli Paredes↔ CHC 28 arb 17 0.2 0.7 +0.2
Rhys Hoskins 31 FA-elig 131 0.2 12.0 -11.2
DL Hall 25 pre-arb 13 0.2 0.7 +0.0
Oliver Dunn 26 pre-arb 41 0.1 0.7 -0.1
Kevin Herget 33 pre-arb 7 0.1 0.7 -0.3
Elvis Peguero 27 arb 52 0.1 0.8 -0.4
Jake Bauers 28 FA-elig 117 0.1 1.4 -1.0
Jakob Junis↔ CIN 31 FA-elig 10 0.0 1.7 -1.5
Elieser Hernández↔ LAD 29 – 4 0.0 0.1 +0.0
J.B. Bukauskas 27 arb 6 0.0 0.7 -0.7
Tyler Jay↔ NYM 30 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
James Meeker 29 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Bradley Blalock↔ COL 23 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Chris Roller 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Carlos Rodriguez 22 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.7 -0.9
Janson Junk↔ OAK 28 arb 5 -0.0 0.6 -0.8
Abner Uribe 24 pre-arb 14 -0.0 0.7 -0.9
Tyler Black 23 pre-arb 18 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Dallas Keuchel 36 – 4 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Vinny Capra 27 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Wade Miley 37 FA-elig 2 -0.1 7.0 -7.5
Brewer Hicklen 28 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Mitch White↔ SFG 29 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.0 -0.8
Isaac Collins 26 – 11 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Nick Mears↔ COL 27 arb 13 -0.2 0.2 -1.1
Andruw Monasterio 27 pre-arb 59 -0.2 0.8 -1.8
Bryse Wilson 26 FA-elig 34 -0.3 1.0 -2.1
Owen Miller 27 arb 14 -0.3 0.7 -2.0
Thyago Vieira↔ ARI 31 FA-elig 16 -0.3 0.4 -1.9
Joey Wiemer↔ CIN 25 pre-arb 19 -0.4 0.7 -2.2

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.