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GM: Terry Ryan (since 2012)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-15.3
WAB — wins above budget
-14.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
66–96 (0.407)
record
-49M
surplus $M (value/$)
18.7
roster fWAR
$94.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joe Mauer 29 FA-elig 147 4.6 23.0 -11.1
Josh Willingham 33 FA-elig 145 3.7 7.0 +2.5
Denard Span 28 arb 128 3.2 3.0 +5.2
Scott Diamond 25 pre-arb 27 2.4 0.5 +5.6
Ben Revere 24 pre-arb 124 2.1 0.5 +5.0
Jamey Carroll 38 FA-elig 138 1.6 2.8 +1.3
Brian Duensing 29 arb 55 1.4 0.5 +3.2
Darin Mastroianni 26 pre-arb 77 1.1 0.5 +2.5
Glen Perkins 29 FA-elig 70 1.1 1.6 +1.3
Francisco Liriano↔ CHW 28 FA-elig 22 0.9 3.6 -1.2
Jared Burton 31 arb 64 0.9 0.8 +1.5
Carl Pavano 36 FA-elig 11 0.7 8.5 -6.6
Trevor Plouffe 26 pre-arb 119 0.6 0.5 +1.1
Casey Fien 28 pre-arb 35 0.6 0.5 +1.0
Cole De Vries 27 – 17 0.5 – –
Alexi Casilla 27 FA-elig 106 0.5 1.4 +0.0
Alex Burnett 24 pre-arb 67 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Esmerling Vasquez 28 – 6 0.3 – –
Justin Morneau 31 FA-elig 134 0.1 14.0 -13.8
Clete Thomas↔ DET 28 arb 12 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Lester Oliveros 24 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Matt Capps 28 FA-elig 30 -0.0 4.5 -4.5
Matt Maloney 28 arb 9 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Pedro Florimón 25 pre-arb 43 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Luis Perdomo 28 – 15 -0.1 – –
Luke Hughes↔ OAK 27 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
P.J. Walters 27 pre-arb 12 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Samuel Deduno 28 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Liam Hendriks 23 pre-arb 17 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Sean Burroughs 31 FA-elig 10 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Eduardo Escobar↔ CHW 23 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Kyle Waldrop 26 pre-arb 17 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Jeff Manship 27 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Anthony Swarzak 26 arb 44 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Tyler Robertson 24 pre-arb 40 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Chris Parmelee 24 pre-arb 64 -0.3 0.5 -1.1
Matt Carson 30 pre-arb 26 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Drew Butera 28 pre-arb 42 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Erik Komatsu↔ STL 24 pre-arb 15 -0.3 0.2 -1.1
Chris Herrmann 24 – 7 -0.4 0.5 -1.4
Brian Dozier 25 – 84 -0.4 0.5 -1.5
Tsuyoshi Nishioka 27 pre-arb 3 -0.5 3.0 -4.2
Jason Marquis↔ SDP 33 FA-elig 7 -0.7 0.9 -2.7
Nick Blackburn 30 arb 19 -0.7 4.8 -6.6
Danny Valencia↔ BOS 27 pre-arb 34 -0.7 0.4 -2.3
Jeff Gray 30 arb 49 -0.8 0.5 -2.5
Ryan Doumit 31 FA-elig 134 -1.1 3.0 -5.8

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 of them (94%). 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.