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GM: Terry Ryan (since 2012)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-11.6
WAB — wins above budget
-8.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
66–96 (0.407)
record
-16M
surplus $M (value/$)
22.1
roster fWAR
$74.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joe Mauer 30 FA-elig 113 5.0 23.0 -9.6
Brian Dozier 26 pre-arb 147 2.9 0.5 +7.3
Mike Pelfrey 29 FA-elig 29 2.4 4.0 +2.3
Glen Perkins 30 FA-elig 61 1.8 2.5 +2.2
Pedro Florimón 26 pre-arb 134 1.4 0.5 +3.3
Kevin Correia 32 FA-elig 32 1.3 4.5 -1.0
Samuel Deduno 29 pre-arb 18 1.2 0.3 +2.8
Casey Fien 29 arb 73 1.1 0.5 +2.3
Anthony Swarzak 27 arb 48 0.9 0.5 +2.0
Justin Morneau↔ PIT 32 FA-elig 127 0.9 11.7 -9.2
Jared Burton 32 FA-elig 71 0.9 2.0 +0.4
Andrew Albers 27 – 10 0.9 0.2 +2.3
Brian Duensing 30 arb 73 0.9 1.3 +1.1
Trevor Plouffe 27 arb 129 0.8 0.5 +1.7
Josmil Pinto 24 pre-arb 21 0.7 0.1 +1.8
Caleb Thielbar 26 – 49 0.5 0.4 +1.1
Josh Willingham 34 FA-elig 111 0.5 7.0 -5.7
Doug Bernier 33 – 33 0.4 – –
Aaron Hicks 23 pre-arb 81 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Ryan Pressly 24 pre-arb 49 0.4 0.5 +0.5
Eric Fryer 27 pre-arb 6 0.4 0.1 +0.9
Michael Tonkin 23 – 9 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Alex Presley↔ PIT 27 pre-arb 28 0.2 0.1 +0.4
Oswaldo Arcia 22 pre-arb 97 0.1 0.3 +0.1
P.J. Walters 28 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Scott Diamond 26 pre-arb 24 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Eduardo Escobar 24 pre-arb 66 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Wilkin Ramirez 27 arb 35 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Josh Roenicke 30 arb 63 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Drew Butera↔ LAD 29 arb 2 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Kyle Gibson 25 – 10 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Chris Parmelee 25 pre-arb 101 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Clete Thomas 29 pre-arb 92 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Liam Hendriks 24 pre-arb 10 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Chris Colabello 29 pre-arb 55 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Shairon Martis 26 – 6 -0.2 0.1 -0.5
Vance Worley 25 arb 10 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Chris Herrmann 25 pre-arb 57 -0.2 0.3 -0.9
Cole De Vries 28 pre-arb 4 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Tyler Robertson 25 pre-arb 2 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Pedro Hernandez 24 pre-arb 14 -0.3 0.2 -0.9
Jamey Carroll↔ KCR 39 FA-elig 59 -0.3 3.0 -3.9
Darin Mastroianni 27 pre-arb 30 -0.7 0.5 -2.4
Ryan Doumit 32 FA-elig 135 -1.4 3.5 -7.2

44 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 43 of them (98%). 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.