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GM: Terry Ryan

Overview

WINDOW ↘ cooling
cheap & winning · year 5 in this regime · payroll 0.8× league · TAB +0.7
+0.7TAB — talent above budget15th/30
+4.0WAB — realized wins (TAB + luck)10th/30
7.0depth — 2+ WAR regulars15th/30
-4.5dead WAR — sub-replacement drag16th/30
41%dead money %25th/30
0.512win %11th/30
32.2roster fWAR18th/30
+3surplus $M (value vs cost)9th/30
$58Mpayroll $M20th/30

Roster

CFTorii Hunter 93GLew Ford 63GJacque Jones 10G
LFShannon Stewart 125GLew Ford 18GMichael Ryan 16G
RFJacque Jones 123GMichael Cuddyer 20GLew Ford 16G
SSJuan Castro 73GJason Bartlett 68GNick Punto 34G
2BBret Boone 88GNick Punto 73GLuis Rivas 53G
3BMichael Cuddyer 95GLuis Antonio Rodriguez 27GTerry Tiffee 24G
1BJustin Morneau 138GMatthew LeCroy 23GTerry Tiffee 13G
STARTERSJohan Santana 7.1WARCarlos Silva 2.1WARBrad Radke 2.1WARKyle Lohse 1.6WARScott Baker 0.9WAR
CJoe Mauer 116GMike Redmond 45GChris Heintz 8G
DHMatthew LeCroy 62GLew Ford 44GJoe Mauer 13G
BULLPEN★ Joe Nathan 43svJuan Rincon 25hJesse Crain 11hJ.C. Romero 11hTerry Mulholland 3hMatt Guerrier 1hTravis Bowyer 0hFrancisco Liriano 0h
CJoe Mauer 116 · Mike Redmond 45 · Chris Heintz 8
1BJustin Morneau 138 · Matthew LeCroy 23 · Terry Tiffee 13
2BBret Boone 88 · Nick Punto 73 · Luis Rivas 53
3BMichael Cuddyer 95 · Luis Antonio Rodriguez 27 · Terry Tiffee 24
SSJuan Castro 73 · Jason Bartlett 68 · Nick Punto 34
LFShannon Stewart 125 · Lew Ford 18 · Michael Ryan 16
CFTorii Hunter 93 · Lew Ford 63 · Jacque Jones 10
RFJacque Jones 123 · Michael Cuddyer 20 · Lew Ford 16
DHMatthew LeCroy 62 · Lew Ford 44 · Joe Mauer 13
SPJohan Santana 7.1 · Carlos Silva 2.1 · Brad Radke 2.1 · Kyle Lohse 1.6 · Scott Baker 0.9
BP★ Joe Nathan 43 · Juan Rincon 25 · Jesse Crain 11 · J.C. Romero 11 · Terry Mulholland 3 · Matt Guerrier 1 · Travis Bowyer 0 · Francisco Liriano 0

Each position lists its starter then backups by games (so platoons & bench show). Starters (mound) & bullpen (left, foul territory) are ranked by WAR; ★ marks the closer (most save chances). MLB Stats API.

2005 roster — value & surplus

PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Johan Santana 26 arb 337.1 4.8 +8.6
Joe Mauer 22 pre-arb 1313.4 0.3 +6.1
Joe Nathan 30 FA-elig 692.6 2.1 +2.7
Torii Hunter 29 FA-elig 982.4 8.0 -3.6
Juan Rincon 26 arb 752.2 0.4 +3.7
Brad Radke 32 FA-elig 312.1 9.0 -5.1
Carlos Silva 26 arb 272.1 1.8 +2.2
Jason Bartlett 25 pre-arb 741.8 0.3 +3.1
Kyle Lohse 26 arb 311.6 2.4 +0.5
Lew Ford 28 pre-arb 1471.5 0.4 +2.5
Justin Morneau 24 pre-arb 1411.5 0.3 +2.4
Michael Cuddyer 26 arb 1261.2 0.3 +1.9
Luis Antonio Rodriguez 25 – 791.1 – –
Juan Castro 33 FA-elig 971.0 1.0 +0.8
Scott Baker 23 – 100.9 0.3 +1.5
Nick Punto 27 arb 1120.8 0.3 +1.2
Mike Redmond 34 FA-elig 450.7 0.9 +0.4
Matthew LeCroy 29 arb 1010.6 0.8 +0.4
Francisco Liriano 21 – 60.5 0.3 +0.7
Joe Mays 29 FA-elig 310.5 7.2 -6.4
Jason Tyner 28 – 180.4 – –
Glenn Williams 27 – 130.3 – –
Matt Guerrier 26 pre-arb 430.3 0.3 +0.3
Jacque Jones 30 FA-elig 1420.2 5.0 -4.5
Luis Rivas 25 arb 590.1 1.6 -1.4
Dave Gassner 26 – 20.0 – –
Brent Abernathy 27 – 24-0.0 – –
Chris Heintz 30 – 8-0.1 – –
Jesse Crain 23 pre-arb 75-0.1 0.3 -0.5
Travis Bowyer 23 – 8-0.1 – –
Corky Miller 29 arb 5-0.2 0.3 -0.6
Terry Mulholland 42 – 49-0.2 – –
Shannon Stewart 31 FA-elig 132-0.3 6.0 -6.6
J.C. Romero 29 FA-elig 68-0.5 1.2 -2.1
Michael Ryan 27 arb 57-0.7 0.3 -1.6
Bret Boone↔ SEA 36 FA-elig 14-1.1 1.4 -3.4
Terry Tiffee 26 – 54-1.3 – –

Key additions (new vs 2004)

PlayerfWAR
Luis Antonio Rodriguez1.1
Juan Castro1.0
Scott Baker0.9
Mike Redmond0.7
Francisco Liriano0.5
Joe Mays0.5

Key subtractions (gone from 2004)

Player2004 fWAR
Corey Koskie2.5
Cristian Guzman1.8
Augie Ojeda0.9
Henry Blanco0.4
Jose Offerman0.3
Grant Balfour0.3

Current & Historical Payroll

2005 payroll
$57.6M

What the front office was committed to as of 2005, 2005–2011. Pre-2015 has no contract-terms data — forward italic $ are realized actuals (hindsight, not commitments known then). Control labels (ARB/FA) are point-in-time.

current $ guaranteed $ actual $ (hindsight) arbitration (proj) pre-arb (proj) free agent

Guaranteed / signed (11)

PlayerAgeSvc2005200620072008200920102011
Brad Radke3210.000$9.0M$9.0MFREE AGENT
Torii Hunter298.000$8.0M$10.8M$12.0MFREE AGENT
Joe Mays296.000$7.2MFREE AGENT
Shannon Stewart3110.000$6.0M$6.5MFREE AGENT
Jacque Jones306.000$5.0MFREE AGENT
Joe Nathan306.000$2.1M$3.8M$5.2M$6.0M$11.2MFREE AGENT$11.2M
Bret Boone3613.000$1.4MFREE AGENT
J.C. Romero296.000$1.2MFREE AGENT
Juan Castro3310.000$1.0M$519kFREE AGENT
Mike Redmond347.000$900k$900k$950k$950k$950kFREE AGENT
Terry Mulholland4219.000—FREE AGENT

Arbitration-eligible (12)

PlayerAgeSvc2005200620072008200920102011
Johan Santana265.000$4.8MFREE AGENT
Kyle Lohse264.000$2.4MARB 3FREE AGENT
Carlos Silva263.000$1.8MARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Luis Rivas255.000$1.6MFREE AGENT
Matthew LeCroy295.000$750kFREE AGENT
Juan Rincon264.000$440kARB 3FREE AGENT
Michael Cuddyer264.000$348kARB 3FREE AGENT
Nick Punto274.000$325kARB 3FREE AGENT
Corky Miller294.000$321kARB 3FREE AGENT
Michael Ryan273.000$321kARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jason Tyner285.000—FREE AGENT
Brent Abernathy274.000—ARB 3FREE AGENT

Pre-arbitration (14)

PlayerAgeSvc2005200620072008200920102011
Lew Ford282.000$385kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Justin Morneau242.000$345kARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Joe Mauer221.000$325kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jesse Crain231.000$321kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Matt Guerrier261.000$318kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Jason Bartlett251.000$316kPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Francisco Liriano210.000$316kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Scott Baker230.000$316kPre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Chris Heintz300.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Luis Antonio Rodriguez250.000—Pre-ArbPre-ArbARB 1ARB 2ARB 3FREE AGENT
Terry Tiffee26–—
Travis Bowyer23–—
Dave Gassner26–—
Glenn Williams27–—

Graphs

Every roster slot ranked best→worst by WAR. Bars = Twins 2005; the black line = the league-average player at each slot that season. Staying above the line deep into the roster is the depth edge; dropping below it = holes & dead weight.

What each regime is worth — every settled team-season since 1985

RegimeSeasonsWin %Playoff %Pennant %WS %
WINDOW 28152.131.05.01.1
CONTEND 30056.964.719.710.3
FORCED-SPEND 25648.09.81.61.6
REBUILD 32143.31.20.30.3
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.