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

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+21.4
WAB — wins above budget
+23.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
101–61 (0.623)
record · made playoffs
+75M
surplus $M (value/$)
55.6
roster fWAR
$107.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Nelson Cruz 38 FA-elig 120 4.5 14.0 +0.9
José Berríos 25 arb 32 4.4 0.6 +13.6
Jake Odorizzi 29 FA-elig 30 4.3 9.5 +4.5
Mitch Garver 28 pre-arb 93 3.9 0.6 +12.3
Max Kepler 26 arb 134 3.9 6.0 +6.7
Jorge Polanco 25 arb 153 3.3 3.6 +7.3
Byron Buxton 25 arb 87 3.1 1.8 +8.3
Miguel Sanó 26 arb 105 2.7 2.6 +6.3
Kyle Gibson 31 FA-elig 34 2.6 8.1 +0.5
Michael Pineda 30 FA-elig 26 2.6 8.0 +0.4
Taylor Rogers 28 arb 60 2.1 1.5 +5.4
Jonathan Schoop 27 FA-elig 121 2.1 7.5 -0.7
Martín Pérez 28 FA-elig 32 1.8 3.5 +2.5
Luis Arraez 22 – 92 1.8 0.4 +5.5
Marwin Gonzalez 30 FA-elig 114 1.5 12.0 -7.2
C.J. Cron 29 arb 125 1.3 4.8 -0.7
Eddie Rosario 27 arb 137 1.2 4.2 -0.2
Tyler Duffey 28 pre-arb 58 1.2 0.4 +3.5
Jason Castro 32 FA-elig 79 1.1 8.0 -4.3
Jake Cave 26 pre-arb 72 1.1 0.6 +3.0
Trevor May 29 arb 65 0.9 0.9 +1.9
Ryne Harper 30 pre-arb 61 0.8 0.6 +2.2
Randy Dobnak 24 – 9 0.8 0.1 +2.4
Ehire Adrianza 29 FA-elig 84 0.7 1.3 +1.0
Lewis Thorpe 23 – 12 0.7 0.2 +2.0
Zack Littell 23 pre-arb 29 0.6 0.2 +1.9
Sergio Romo↔ MIA 36 FA-elig 27 0.5 1.0 +0.6
Cody Stashak 25 – 18 0.5 0.2 +1.5
Devin Smeltzer 23 – 11 0.5 0.2 +1.4
Brusdar Graterol 20 – 10 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Matt Magill↔ SEA 29 FA-elig 28 0.1 0.3 +0.1
Mike Morin↔ PHI 28 – 23 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Ryan LaMarre 30 pre-arb 14 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Ryan Eades↔ BAL 27 – 2 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Trevor Hildenberger 28 pre-arb 22 0.0 0.6 -0.5
Sean Poppen 25 – 4 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Jorge Alcala 23 – 2 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Ronald Torreyes 26 arb 7 0.0 0.8 -0.8
Tyler Austin↔ MIL 27 arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Andrew Vasquez 25 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Fernando Romero 24 pre-arb 15 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
LaMonte Wade Jr. 25 – 26 -0.0 – –
Ian Miller 27 – 12 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Chase De Jong 25 – 1 -0.1 – –
Austin Adams↔ DET 32 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Willians Astudillo 27 pre-arb 58 -0.1 0.6 -1.0
Kohl Stewart 24 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Adalberto Mejía↔ ANA 26 arb 13 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Blake Parker↔ PHI 34 FA-elig 37 -0.2 1.1 -1.8
Sam Dyson↔ SFG 31 FA-elig 12 -0.2 1.0 -1.8

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 of them (96%). 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.