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GM: Terry Ryan (since 2012)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-8.9
WAB — wins above budget
-0.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
70–92 (0.432)
record
-1M
surplus $M (value/$)
30.5
roster fWAR
$89.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Phil Hughes 28 FA-elig 32 6.2 8.0 +10.1
Brian Dozier 27 pre-arb 156 4.5 0.5 +12.6
Danny Santana 23 – 101 3.9 0.4 +11.0
Trevor Plouffe 28 arb 136 3.4 2.4 +7.4
Kyle Gibson 26 pre-arb 31 2.7 0.5 +7.4
Eduardo Escobar 25 arb 133 2.6 0.5 +7.2
Joe Mauer 31 FA-elig 120 1.7 23.0 -18.2
Josh Willingham↔ KCR 35 FA-elig 68 1.3 5.2 -1.5
Ricky Nolasco 31 FA-elig 27 1.3 12.0 -8.4
Glen Perkins 31 FA-elig 63 1.2 4.0 -0.6
Kevin Correia↔ LAD 33 FA-elig 23 1.1 4.0 -0.9
Casey Fien 30 arb 73 0.9 0.5 +2.2
Oswaldo Arcia 23 pre-arb 103 0.9 0.5 +2.2
Yohan Pino 30 – 11 0.9 0.1 +2.4
Sam Fuld↔ OAK 32 FA-elig 53 0.7 0.4 +1.7
Anthony Swarzak 28 arb 50 0.6 0.9 +0.8
Jordan Schafer↔ ATL 27 arb 41 0.5 0.4 +0.9
Kennys Vargas 23 pre-arb 53 0.5 0.2 +1.2
Caleb Thielbar 27 pre-arb 54 0.4 0.5 +0.5
Trevor May 24 – 10 0.3 0.1 +0.7
Jorge Polanco 20 – 5 0.2 0.0 +0.6
Aaron Hicks 24 pre-arb 69 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Jared Burton 33 FA-elig 68 0.1 3.2 -2.8
Aaron Thompson 27 – 7 0.1 – –
Eduardo Núñez 27 pre-arb 72 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Chris Parmelee 26 pre-arb 87 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Doug Bernier 34 – 7 0.1 – –
Matt Guerrier 35 – 27 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Jason Bartlett 34 FA-elig 3 -0.0 1.0 -1.0
Michael Tonkin 24 pre-arb 25 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Samuel Deduno↔ HOU 30 arb 30 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Darin Mastroianni↔ TOR 28 – 7 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Kris Johnson 29 – 3 -0.1 – –
Ryan Pressly 25 pre-arb 25 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
A.J. Achter 25 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Logan Darnell 25 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Lester Oliveros 26 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.5
Pedro Florimón 27 arb 33 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Brian Duensing 31 arb 62 -0.2 2.0 -2.5
Tommy Milone↔ OAK 27 arb 6 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Kurt Suzuki 30 FA-elig 131 -0.2 2.8 -3.3
Eric Fryer 28 pre-arb 28 -0.4 0.3 -1.4
Josmil Pinto 25 pre-arb 57 -0.5 0.5 -2.0
Chris Colabello 30 pre-arb 59 -0.6 0.5 -2.1
Mike Pelfrey 30 FA-elig 5 -0.6 5.5 -7.2
Jason Kubel 32 FA-elig 45 -0.8 2.0 -4.2
Chris Herrmann 26 pre-arb 33 -0.8 0.5 -2.7
Kendrys Morales↔ SEA 31 FA-elig 39 -0.9 2.9 -5.7

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 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.