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GM: Terry Ryan (since 1993)

2000 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+2.2
WAB — wins above budget
-3.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
69–93 (0.426)
record
+8M
surplus $M (value/$)
16.7
roster fWAR
$16.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brad Radke 27 arb 34 4.2 3.5 +2.4
Eric Milton 24 pre-arb 33 2.8 0.3 +3.7
Corey Koskie 27 pre-arb 146 2.6 0.2 +3.4
Matt Lawton III 28 arb 156 2.3 2.0 +1.2
Mark Redman 26 pre-arb 32 2.1 0.2 +2.8
Joe Mays 24 pre-arb 31 2.0 0.2 +2.6
Jacque Jones 25 pre-arb 154 1.3 0.2 +1.7
LaTroy Hawkins 27 arb 66 1.1 1.1 +0.4
Travis Miller 27 arb 67 1.0 0.2 +1.2
Bob Wells 33 FA-elig 76 1.0 0.7 +0.7
David Ortiz 24 arb 130 0.7 0.2 +0.7
Hector Carrasco↔ BOS 30 FA-elig 61 0.6 0.7 +0.2
J.C. Romero 24 pre-arb 12 0.6 0.2 +0.6
A.J. Pierzynski 23 pre-arb 33 0.6 0.2 +0.6
Denny Hocking 30 FA-elig 134 0.5 0.5 +0.2
John Barnes 24 – 11 0.3 – –
Marcus Jensen 27 arb 52 0.2 0.3 -0.0
Jack Cressend 25 pre-arb 11 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Chad Allen 25 – 15 0.1 – –
Midre Cummings↔ BOS 28 FA-elig 77 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Matt Kinney 23 pre-arb 8 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Danny Mota 24 – 4 -0.0 – –
Johan Santana 21 pre-arb 30 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Casey Blake 26 – 7 -0.0 – –
Danny Ardoin 25 – 15 -0.0 – –
Doug Mientkiewicz 26 – 3 -0.1 – –
Luis Rivas 20 – 16 -0.1 – –
Torii Hunter 24 arb 99 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Jason Maxwell 28 pre-arb 64 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Cristian Guzman 22 pre-arb 156 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Ron Coomer 33 arb 140 -0.1 1.5 -1.7
Jay Canizaro 26 – 102 -0.2 – –
Jason Ryan 24 – 16 -0.4 – –
Eddie Guardado 29 FA-elig 70 -0.5 0.9 -1.6
Sean Bergman 30 FA-elig 15 -0.6 1.2 -2.1
Chad Moeller 25 pre-arb 48 -0.7 0.2 -1.2
Mike Lincoln 25 pre-arb 8 -0.8 0.2 -1.3
Todd Walker↔ COL 27 arb 23 -0.8 0.1 -1.2
Brian Buchanan 26 – 30 -0.8 – –
Matthew LeCroy 24 pre-arb 56 -1.0 0.2 -1.6
Butch Huskey↔ COL 28 FA-elig 64 -1.1 0.3 -1.8

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 31 of them (76%). 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.