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GM: Terry Ryan (since 1993)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.9
WAB — wins above budget
-9.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
63–97 (0.394)
record
-0M
surplus $M (value/$)
13.6
roster fWAR
$19.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brad Radke 26 arb 33 3.6 2.2 +2.3
Eric Milton 23 pre-arb 34 3.6 0.2 +4.3
Corey Koskie 26 pre-arb 117 2.7 0.2 +3.2
Jacque Jones 24 pre-arb 95 1.7 0.2 +1.9
Joe Mays 23 pre-arb 49 1.6 0.2 +1.8
LaTroy Hawkins 26 arb 33 1.4 0.3 +1.4
Travis Miller 26 arb 52 1.0 0.2 +1.1
Ron Coomer 32 arb 127 0.9 1.1 +0.0
Terry Steinbach 37 FA-elig 101 0.9 1.0 +0.2
Marty Cordova 29 arb 124 0.9 3.0 -1.9
Brent Gates 29 FA-elig 110 0.8 0.4 +0.6
Javier Valentin 23 pre-arb 78 0.7 0.2 +0.7
Hector Carrasco 29 arb 39 0.7 0.8 +0.0
Mike Trombley 32 FA-elig 75 0.5 1.5 -0.8
Bob Wells 32 arb 76 0.5 0.3 +0.3
Rick Aguilera↔ CHC 37 FA-elig 17 0.4 1.2 -0.7
Mike Lincoln 24 pre-arb 18 0.4 0.2 +0.3
Eddie Guardado 28 FA-elig 63 0.4 0.8 -0.4
Matt Lawton III 27 arb 118 0.2 1.7 -1.4
J.C. Romero 23 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Torii Hunter 23 pre-arb 135 0.1 0.2 -0.0
A.J. Pierzynski 22 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Mark Redman 25 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Midre Cummings 27 FA-elig 16 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Cleatus Davidson 22 – 12 -0.1 – –
Gary Rath 26 – 5 -0.1 – –
Dan Perkins 24 pre-arb 29 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Todd Walker 26 arb 143 -0.3 0.3 -0.6
Jason Ryan 23 pre-arb 8 -0.3 0.2 -0.6
David Ortiz 23 – 10 -0.5 – –
Chris Latham 26 pre-arb 14 -0.6 0.2 -0.9
Benj Sampson 24 pre-arb 30 -0.7 0.2 -1.1
Rob Radlosky 25 – 7 -0.7 – –
Chad Allen 24 pre-arb 137 -0.9 0.2 -1.3
Denny Hocking 29 FA-elig 136 -0.9 0.3 -1.5
Doug Mientkiewicz 25 pre-arb 118 -1.3 0.2 -1.8
Cristian Guzman 21 pre-arb 131 -3.1 0.2 -4.1

37 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 33 of them (89%). 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 MIN
Johan Santana199932.0
Greg Gagne198215.6
Joe Nathan200314.1
Eric Milton199813.4
Joe Ryan202113.4
Francisco Liriano200312.5
Pablo López20239.6
Bert Blyleven19858.3
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Scott Erickson199516.4
J. J. Hardy201014.3
Johan Santana200814.3
Wilson Ramos201011.5
Mark Portugal19889.2
Denard Span20129.0
Bert Blyleven19888.4
Jason Bartlett20078.4
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.