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GM: Bill Smith (since 2008)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+8.0
WAB — wins above budget
+3.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
87–76 (0.534)
record · made playoffs
+14M
surplus $M (value/$)
35.0
roster fWAR
$69.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joe Mauer 26 arb 138 8.3 10.5 +9.3
Denard Span 25 pre-arb 145 4.1 0.4 +9.3
Scott Baker 27 arb 33 3.3 0.8 +7.1
Justin Morneau 28 FA-elig 135 3.3 11.6 -3.8
Michael Cuddyer 30 FA-elig 153 2.5 7.7 -1.8
Jason Kubel 27 arb 146 2.3 2.8 +2.7
Nick Blackburn 27 pre-arb 33 2.3 0.4 +5.0
Joe Nathan 34 FA-elig 70 1.8 11.2 -7.0
Joe Crede 31 FA-elig 90 1.7 2.5 +1.6
Nick Punto 31 FA-elig 125 1.7 4.0 +0.0
Carl Pavano↔ CLE 33 FA-elig 12 1.6 0.5 +3.3
Kevin Slowey 25 pre-arb 16 1.3 0.4 +2.6
Carlos Gómez 23 pre-arb 137 1.0 0.4 +2.0
Brian Duensing 26 pre-arb 24 0.8 0.4 +1.5
Glen Perkins 26 arb 18 0.7 0.4 +1.2
Francisco Liriano 25 arb 29 0.6 0.4 +1.0
Jose Mijares 24 pre-arb 71 0.6 0.4 +0.9
Orlando Cabrera↔ OAK 34 FA-elig 59 0.5 1.5 -0.2
Brian Buscher 28 pre-arb 61 0.3 0.4 +0.4
Jon Rauch↔ ARI 30 FA-elig 17 0.2 0.6 -0.0
Jesse Crain 27 arb 56 0.2 1.7 -1.3
Jose Morales 26 pre-arb 54 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Matt Guerrier 30 arb 79 0.1 1.5 -1.2
Matt Tolbert 27 pre-arb 71 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Bob Keppel 27 – 37 0.0 – –
Jeff Manship 24 pre-arb 11 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Kevin Mulvey↔ ARI 24 – 2 0.0 – –
Jason Pridie 25 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Luis Ayala↔ MIA 31 FA-elig 28 -0.0 1.0 -1.0
Ron Mahay↔ KCR 38 FA-elig 16 -0.0 1.1 -1.2
Philip Humber 26 arb 8 -0.1 1.1 -1.3
Justin Huber 26 – 1 -0.1 – –
Armando Gabino 25 – 2 -0.1 – –
Juan Morillo 25 – 3 -0.1 – –
Brendan Harris 28 arb 123 -0.2 0.5 -0.8
Sean Henn↔ BAL 28 arb 14 -0.2 0.3 -0.8
Anthony Swarzak 23 pre-arb 12 -0.3 0.4 -1.0
Craig Breslow↔ OAK 28 arb 17 -0.3 0.1 -0.8
R.A. Dickey 34 FA-elig 35 -0.4 0.5 -1.4
Mike Redmond 38 FA-elig 45 -0.5 0.9 -2.1
Alexi Casilla 24 arb 80 -1.2 0.4 -3.2
Delmon Young 23 arb 108 -1.3 1.2 -4.2

42 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (88%). 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.