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

2021 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-8.2
WAB — wins above budget
-4.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
73–89 (0.451)
record
-25M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.9
roster fWAR
$118.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Byron Buxton 27 FA-elig 61 4.1 5.1 +8.1
Jorge Polanco 27 FA-elig 152 4.0 4.3 +8.7
Josh Donaldson 35 FA-elig 135 3.4 21.8 -10.8
José Berríos↔ TOR 27 arb 20 2.3 3.8 +3.6
Max Kepler 28 FA-elig 121 2.2 6.5 +0.7
Mitch Garver 30 arb 68 2.1 1.9 +4.9
Nelson Cruz↔ TBR 40 FA-elig 85 1.8 7.9 -1.9
Kenta Maeda 33 arb 23 1.6 3.1 +2.1
Luis Arraez 24 pre-arb 121 1.6 0.6 +4.5
Taylor Rogers 30 arb 40 1.5 6.0 -1.0
Michael Pineda 32 FA-elig 22 1.3 10.0 -5.8
Ryan Jeffers 24 pre-arb 85 1.2 0.5 +3.5
Andrelton Simmons 31 FA-elig 131 0.9 10.5 -7.4
Bailey Ober 25 – 20 0.9 0.4 +2.7
Miguel Sanó 28 FA-elig 135 0.9 11.0 -8.1
Caleb Thielbar 34 FA-elig 59 0.8 0.7 +2.0
Tyler Duffey 30 FA-elig 64 0.7 2.2 +0.1
Joe Ryan 25 – 5 0.5 0.1 +1.7
Rob Refsnyder 30 pre-arb 51 0.4 0.4 +0.9
John Gant↔ STL 28 arb 14 0.4 0.8 +0.5
Kyle Garlick 29 pre-arb 36 0.4 0.6 +0.6
Alex Kirilloff 23 – 59 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Ben Rortvedt 23 – 39 0.3 0.3 +0.6
Danny Coulombe 31 pre-arb 29 0.3 0.3 +0.5
Nick Gordon 25 – 73 0.3 0.4 +0.4
Jorge Alcala 25 pre-arb 59 0.2 0.6 +0.2
Cody Stashak 27 pre-arb 15 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Juan Minaya 30 pre-arb 29 0.2 0.3 +0.4
Trevor Larnach 24 – 79 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Charlie Barnes 25 – 9 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Nick Vincent 34 FA-elig 7 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Alex Colomé 32 FA-elig 67 0.1 5.0 -4.7
Jovani Morán 24 – 5 0.1 0.1 +0.2
JT Riddle 29 arb 4 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Devin Smeltzer 25 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Shaun Anderson↔ BAL 26 – 4 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Lewis Thorpe 25 pre-arb 5 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Tzu-Wei Lin 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
J.A. Happ↔ STL 38 FA-elig 19 -0.0 5.1 -5.1
Derek Law 30 pre-arb 9 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Travis Blankenhorn↔ NYM 24 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Ralph Garza Jr.↔ HOU 27 – 18 -0.1 – –
Ian Gibaut 27 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Luke Farrell 30 pre-arb 20 -0.1 0.4 -0.9
Brent Rooker 26 pre-arb 58 -0.3 0.3 -1.2
Brandon Waddell↔ BAL 27 – 4 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Randy Dobnak 26 pre-arb 14 -0.3 0.7 -1.6
Kyle Barraclough 31 arb 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Hansel Robles↔ BOS 30 FA-elig 45 -0.3 1.2 -2.3
Edgar García↔ CIN 24 pre-arb 6 -0.4 0.0 -1.2
Beau Burrows↔ DET 24 pre-arb 5 -0.5 0.0 -1.7
Jake Cave 28 pre-arb 76 -0.5 0.6 -2.3
Willians Astudillo 29 pre-arb 73 -0.6 0.5 -2.3
Andrew Albers 35 FA-elig 5 -0.6 0.1 -2.2
Gilberto Celestino 22 – 23 -0.6 0.2 -2.3
Matt Shoemaker 34 FA-elig 16 -0.8 2.0 -4.5
Griffin Jax 26 – 18 -0.8 0.3 -3.0

57 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 56 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.