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GM: Matt Arnold (since 2021)

2025 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+19.2
WAB — wins above budget
+16.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
97–65 (0.599)
record · made playoffs
+71M
surplus $M (value/$)
46.8
roster fWAR
$108.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brice Turang 25 pre-arb 156 4.4 0.8 +16.1
William Contreras 27 arb 150 3.6 6.0 +8.0
Freddy Peralta 29 FA-elig 33 3.6 8.1 +5.8
Sal Frelick 25 pre-arb 142 3.6 0.8 +12.9
Jackson Chourio 21 pre-arb 131 2.9 4.2 +6.9
Caleb Durbin 25 – 136 2.6 0.7 +9.4
Isaac Collins 27 pre-arb 130 2.6 0.8 +9.2
Chad Patrick 26 – 27 2.6 0.5 +9.3
Christian Yelich 33 FA-elig 150 2.4 24.1 -14.7
Andrew Vaughn↔ CHW 27 arb 64 1.9 2.6 +4.7
Quinn Priester 24 pre-arb 29 1.9 0.7 +6.5
Brandon Woodruff 32 FA-elig 12 1.8 5.0 +1.8
Abner Uribe 25 pre-arb 75 1.7 0.8 +5.7
Trevor Megill 31 arb 50 1.6 1.9 +4.0
Joey Ortiz 26 pre-arb 149 1.4 0.8 +4.4
Aaron Ashby 27 pre-arb 43 1.2 3.5 +1.3
Jacob Misiorowski 23 – 15 1.2 0.4 +4.3
Jared Koenig 31 pre-arb 72 0.9 0.8 +2.6
Rhys Hoskins 32 FA-elig 90 0.9 18.0 -14.6
Jose Quintana 36 FA-elig 24 0.8 6.7 -3.4
Logan Henderson 23 – 5 0.8 0.3 +2.8
Jake Bauers 29 arb 86 0.8 1.4 +1.7
Andruw Monasterio 28 pre-arb 68 0.7 0.6 +2.1
Nick Mears 28 arb 63 0.5 1.0 +0.8
Tyler Alexander↔ CHW 30 – 21 0.4 0.5 +1.2
Danny Jansen↔ TBR 30 FA-elig 25 0.4 1.5 +0.2
Blake Perkins 28 pre-arb 54 0.4 0.8 +0.9
Grant Anderson 28 pre-arb 66 0.4 0.8 +0.8
Tobias Myers 26 pre-arb 22 0.4 0.6 +0.9
DL Hall 26 pre-arb 20 0.4 0.7 +0.7
Garrett Mitchell 26 pre-arb 25 0.4 0.8 +0.6
Eric Haase 32 arb 30 0.3 1.4 -0.1
Brandon Lockridge↔ SDP 28 pre-arb 20 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Easton McGee 27 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Steward Berroa 26 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Shelby Miller↔ ARI 34 FA-elig 11 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Tyler Black 24 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Carlos Rodriguez 23 – 4 0.0 – –
Aaron Civale↔ CHC 30 – 5 0.0 1.0 -1.0
Joel Payamps↔ ATL 31 – 28 -0.0 2.7 -2.7
Bryan Hudson↔ CHW 28 – 12 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Rob Zastryzny 33 pre-arb 26 -0.0 0.6 -0.6
Robert Gasser 26 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.7 -0.9
Drew Avans↔ OAK 29 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Elvis Peguero↔ CHW 28 – 6 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Erick Fedde↔ ATL 32 arb 7 -0.1 1.6 -1.9
Daz Cameron 28 pre-arb 21 -0.1 0.3 -0.8
Craig Yoho 25 – 8 -0.2 0.2 -0.7
Bruce Zimmermann 30 pre-arb 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Anthony Seigler 26 – 34 -0.2 0.4 -1.1
Connor Thomas 27 – 2 -0.2 0.8 -1.7
Oliver Dunn 27 pre-arb 14 -0.3 0.2 -1.4
Elvin Rodríguez↔ BAL 27 – 6 -0.4 0.4 -2.0
Nestor Cortes↔ SDP 30 – 2 -0.4 1.3 -3.1
Vinny Capra↔ CHW 28 – 24 -0.8 0.1 -3.0

55 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 54 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.