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GM: Rob Antony (since 2016)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-20.4
WAB — wins above budget
-6.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
59–103 (0.364)
record
-20M
surplus $M (value/$)
25.7
roster fWAR
$102.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brian Dozier 29 arb 155 6.6 3.0 +18.3
Ervin Santana 33 FA-elig 30 3.4 13.5 -2.4
Max Kepler 23 pre-arb 113 2.0 0.4 +6.2
Byron Buxton 22 pre-arb 92 1.9 0.5 +5.7
Ricky Nolasco↔ ANA 33 FA-elig 21 1.7 7.9 -2.3
Joe Mauer 33 FA-elig 134 1.6 23.0 -17.8
Eduardo Núñez↔ SFG 29 FA-elig 91 1.3 1.0 +3.2
Kyle Gibson 28 arb 25 1.2 0.6 +3.4
Tyler Duffey 25 pre-arb 26 1.2 0.4 +3.6
Eddie Rosario 24 pre-arb 92 1.0 0.5 +2.7
Ryan Pressly 27 arb 72 1.0 0.5 +2.7
Robbie Grossman 26 pre-arb 99 0.9 0.4 +2.4
Jorge Polanco 22 pre-arb 69 0.8 0.3 +2.3
Taylor Rogers 25 – 57 0.7 0.4 +1.9
Kennys Vargas 25 pre-arb 47 0.6 0.2 +1.9
Brandon Kintzler 31 arb 54 0.6 0.4 +1.7
Buddy Boshers 28 pre-arb 37 0.6 0.3 +1.7
Fernando Abad↔ BOS 30 FA-elig 39 0.5 0.9 +0.7
Miguel Sanó 23 pre-arb 116 0.4 0.5 +0.8
Trevor Plouffe 30 FA-elig 84 0.4 7.2 -6.0
Trevor May 26 pre-arb 44 0.4 0.5 +0.7
Phil Hughes 30 FA-elig 12 0.3 9.2 -8.2
JT Chargois 25 – 25 0.3 0.2 +0.7
Eduardo Escobar 27 arb 105 0.2 2.1 -1.4
Michael Tonkin 26 arb 65 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Ryan O'Rourke 28 pre-arb 26 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Logan Schafer 29 pre-arb 26 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Pat Dean 27 – 19 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Héctor Santiago↔ ANA 28 arb 11 0.1 1.7 -1.4
Glen Perkins 33 FA-elig 2 0.1 6.3 -6.1
J.R. Graham 26 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Tommy Milone 29 arb 19 0.0 4.5 -4.4
ByungHo Park 29 pre-arb 62 0.0 2.8 -2.7
Adalberto Mejía 23 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
James Beresford 27 – 10 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Alex Wimmers 27 – 16 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Alex Meyer↔ ANA 26 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Darin Mastroianni 30 – 7 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Kurt Suzuki 32 FA-elig 106 -0.1 6.0 -6.4
Pat Light↔ BOS 25 pre-arb 15 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Andrew Albers 30 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
José Berríos 22 – 14 -0.3 0.2 -1.0
Casey Fien↔ LAD 32 FA-elig 14 -0.3 0.8 -1.8
Kevin Jepsen↔ TBR 31 FA-elig 33 -0.4 3.0 -4.3
Neil Ramírez↔ CHC 27 pre-arb 8 -0.5 0.2 -1.7
Oswaldo Arcia↔ MIA 25 arb 32 -0.5 0.2 -1.8
John Ryan Murphy 25 arb 26 -0.5 0.5 -2.1
Juan Centeno 26 pre-arb 55 -0.7 0.4 -2.6
Danny Santana 25 pre-arb 75 -0.9 0.5 -3.5

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.