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

2020 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+13.3 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+14.1 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
36–24 (0.600)
record · made playoffs
-1M
surplus $M (value/$)
18.6
roster fWAR
$136.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Kenta Maeda 32 arb 11 2.1 3.1 +11.9
Nelson Cruz 39 FA-elig 53 1.9 12.0 +2.2
Byron Buxton 26 arb 39 1.3 3.1 +6.4
Max Kepler 27 arb 48 1.2 6.2 +2.4
Michael Pineda 31 FA-elig 5 1.1 10.0 -2.0
José Berríos 26 arb 12 1.1 4.0 +3.7
Josh Donaldson 34 FA-elig 28 0.9 18.8 -12.5
Randy Dobnak 25 arb 10 0.8 0.2 +5.6
Eddie Rosario 28 arb 57 0.8 7.8 -2.1
Tyler Clippard 35 FA-elig 26 0.8 2.8 +2.8
Tyler Duffey 29 arb 22 0.7 1.2 +3.9
Rich Hill 40 FA-elig 8 0.7 3.0 +2.1
Jorge Polanco 26 FA-elig 55 0.6 3.8 +0.7
Matt Wisler 27 arb 18 0.6 0.7 +3.5
Jake Cave 27 pre-arb 42 0.6 0.2 +3.9
Caleb Thielbar 33 pre-arb 17 0.6 0.2 +3.9
Miguel Sanó 27 arb 53 0.5 7.0 -3.0
Taylor Rogers 29 arb 21 0.5 4.5 -0.6
Luis Arraez 23 pre-arb 32 0.5 0.2 +3.4
Ryan Jeffers 23 – 26 0.4 0.1 +3.1
Trevor May 30 FA-elig 24 0.4 2.2 +0.7
Marwin Gonzalez 31 FA-elig 53 0.4 9.0 -6.1
Cody Stashak 26 pre-arb 11 0.3 0.2 +1.8
Jorge Alcala 24 pre-arb 16 0.3 0.2 +1.8
Ehire Adrianza 30 FA-elig 44 0.2 1.6 +0.0
Alex Avila 33 FA-elig 23 0.2 4.2 -2.9
Sean Poppen 26 pre-arb 6 0.2 0.1 +1.2
Devin Smeltzer 24 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.2 +1.1
Sergio Romo 37 FA-elig 24 0.1 4.8 -3.8
Homer Bailey 34 FA-elig 2 0.1 7.0 -6.3
Travis Blankenhorn 23 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.5
Brent Rooker 25 – 7 0.0 0.1 +0.3
Willians Astudillo 28 pre-arb 8 0.0 0.1 +0.0
LaMonte Wade Jr. 26 – 16 0.0 – –
Danny Coulombe 30 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Cory Gearrin 34 FA-elig 1 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Aaron Whitefield 23 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Jake Odorizzi 30 FA-elig 4 -0.0 17.8 -18.2
Edwar Colina 23 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.9
Ildemaro Vargas↔ ARI 28 – 10 -0.1 0.0 -1.1
Lewis Thorpe 24 pre-arb 7 -0.3 0.1 -2.1
Mitch Garver 29 pre-arb 23 -0.4 0.2 -2.8
Zack Littell 24 pre-arb 6 -0.4 0.1 -3.4

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 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.