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GM: Terry Ryan (since 2012)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+2.0
WAB — wins above budget
-5.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
83–79 (0.512)
record
-25M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.1
roster fWAR
$112.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brian Dozier 28 arb 157 3.1 2.0 +7.7
Kyle Gibson 27 pre-arb 32 2.8 0.5 +8.4
Trevor Plouffe 29 arb 152 2.6 4.8 +3.5
Eddie Rosario 23 – 122 2.4 0.4 +7.3
Trevor May 25 pre-arb 48 2.4 0.5 +7.2
Mike Pelfrey 31 FA-elig 30 2.4 5.5 +2.0
Miguel Sanó 22 – 80 2.0 0.3 +6.1
Aaron Hicks 25 pre-arb 97 2.0 0.4 +5.9
Eduardo Escobar 26 arb 127 1.9 0.5 +5.6
Tommy Milone 28 arb 24 1.7 2.8 +2.5
Ervin Santana 32 FA-elig 17 1.5 13.5 -8.7
Tyler Duffey 24 – 10 1.3 0.2 +4.1
Eduardo Núñez 28 arb 72 1.1 1.0 +2.6
Phil Hughes 29 FA-elig 27 1.1 9.2 -5.6
Casey Fien 31 FA-elig 62 0.9 1.4 +1.3
Kevin Jepsen↔ TBR 30 FA-elig 29 0.8 1.2 +1.3
Ricky Nolasco 32 FA-elig 9 0.7 12.0 -9.7
Torii Hunter 39 FA-elig 139 0.7 10.5 -8.3
Glen Perkins 32 FA-elig 60 0.6 4.7 -2.6
Ryan Pressly 26 pre-arb 27 0.5 0.4 +1.2
Blaine Boyer 33 FA-elig 68 0.3 0.8 +0.3
Joe Mauer 32 FA-elig 158 0.3 23.0 -22.0
Aaron Thompson 28 arb 41 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Caleb Thielbar 28 – 6 0.2 – –
Shane Robinson 30 FA-elig 83 0.2 0.6 -0.1
Eric Fryer 29 pre-arb 15 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Jorge Polanco 21 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Byron Buxton 21 – 46 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Doug Bernier 35 pre-arb 4 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Ryan O'Rourke 27 – 28 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Max Kepler 22 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Michael Tonkin 25 pre-arb 26 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
J.R. Graham 25 pre-arb 39 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
A.J. Achter 26 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Alex Meyer 25 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Neal Cotts↔ MIL 35 FA-elig 17 -0.2 0.8 -1.5
Brian Duensing 32 FA-elig 55 -0.4 2.7 -3.9
Oswaldo Arcia 24 pre-arb 19 -0.4 0.5 -1.7
Tim Stauffer↔ NYM 33 FA-elig 13 -0.4 1.6 -2.8
Jordan Schafer 28 FA-elig 27 -0.5 1.6 -3.3
Chris Herrmann 27 arb 45 -0.6 0.5 -2.3
Kennys Vargas 24 pre-arb 58 -0.7 0.5 -2.6
Kurt Suzuki 31 FA-elig 131 -1.0 6.0 -9.3
Danny Santana 24 pre-arb 91 -1.3 0.5 -4.7

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.