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President of baseball ops: Derek Falvey (since 2017) · GM: Thad Levine (since 2017)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.2
WAB — wins above budget
+5.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record · made playoffs
+15M
surplus $M (value/$)
37.1
roster fWAR
$110.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brian Dozier 30 arb 152 6.0 6.0 +14.4
Byron Buxton 23 pre-arb 140 4.4 0.5 +14.4
Joe Mauer 34 FA-elig 141 2.8 23.0 -13.4
Ervin Santana 34 FA-elig 33 2.8 13.5 -4.2
José Berríos 23 pre-arb 26 2.7 0.4 +8.8
Eddie Rosario 25 pre-arb 151 2.6 0.6 +8.1
Miguel Sanó 24 pre-arb 114 2.4 0.6 +7.6
Jason Castro 30 FA-elig 110 2.1 8.5 -1.5
Max Kepler 24 pre-arb 147 1.9 0.5 +5.8
Jorge Polanco 23 arb 133 1.9 0.5 +5.8
Eduardo Escobar 28 FA-elig 129 1.3 2.6 +1.9
Chris Gimenez 34 FA-elig 77 1.1 0.9 +2.8
Kyle Gibson 29 arb 29 1.0 2.9 +0.5
Adalberto Mejía 24 pre-arb 21 1.0 0.5 +2.7
Robbie Grossman 27 arb 119 0.8 0.6 +2.3
Ehire Adrianza 27 pre-arb 70 0.8 0.6 +2.0
Trevor Hildenberger 26 – 37 0.8 0.3 +2.3
Brandon Kintzler↔ WSN 32 FA-elig 45 0.6 1.8 +0.4
Tyler Duffey 26 pre-arb 56 0.6 0.5 +1.6
Matt Belisle 37 FA-elig 62 0.6 2.0 -0.2
Dillon Gee↔ TEX 31 arb 14 0.5 1.6 +0.2
Kennys Vargas 26 arb 78 0.4 0.5 +0.8
Taylor Rogers 26 pre-arb 69 0.4 0.5 +0.6
Jaime García↔ ATL 30 FA-elig 1 0.2 0.4 +0.3
Zack Granite 24 – 40 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Bartolo Colon↔ ATL 44 FA-elig 15 0.2 6.7 -6.1
Alan Busenitz 26 – 28 0.1 0.2 +0.1
Phil Hughes 31 FA-elig 14 0.1 13.2 -12.9
Ryan Pressly 28 arb 57 0.1 1.2 -0.9
Chris Heston↔ SEA 29 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Aaron Slegers 24 – 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Danny Santana↔ ATL 26 arb 13 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
John Curtiss 24 – 9 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Justin Haley 26 pre-arb 10 -0.0 0.5 -0.7
Randy Rosario 23 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Glen Perkins 34 FA-elig 8 -0.1 6.5 -6.7
Drew Rucinski 28 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Tim Melville↔ SDP 27 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Dietrich Enns 26 – 2 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Nick Tepesch↔ TOR 28 arb 1 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Gabriel Moya 22 – 7 -0.1 – –
Jason Wheeler 26 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Craig Breslow↔ CLE 36 FA-elig 30 -0.1 1.0 -1.5
Mitch Garver 26 – 23 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Alex Wimmers 28 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Buddy Boshers 29 pre-arb 38 -0.2 0.3 -1.1
Michael Tonkin 27 arb 16 -0.2 0.5 -1.4
Adam Wilk↔ NYM 29 – 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.9
Héctor Santiago 29 FA-elig 15 -0.3 8.0 -8.9
Felix Jorge 23 pre-arb 2 -0.3 0.0 -1.0
Nik Turley 27 – 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Niko Goodrum 25 – 11 -0.3 0.1 -1.2

52 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 51 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.