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

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-3.0
WAB — wins above budget
-1.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-16M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.0
roster fWAR
$132.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Carlos Correa 27 FA-elig 136 4.6 35.1 -18.4
Byron Buxton 28 FA-elig 92 3.4 9.1 +3.3
Luis Arraez 25 arb 144 2.7 2.1 +7.6
Gio Urshela 30 FA-elig 144 2.6 6.5 +2.9
Sonny Gray 32 FA-elig 24 2.4 11.9 -3.0
Joe Ryan 26 pre-arb 27 2.2 0.7 +7.2
Jorge Polanco 28 FA-elig 104 1.7 5.5 +0.8
Caleb Thielbar 35 FA-elig 67 1.6 1.3 +4.7
Max Kepler 29 FA-elig 115 1.5 6.8 -1.1
Nick Gordon 26 pre-arb 138 1.5 0.7 +4.9
Jhoan Duran 24 – 57 1.5 0.7 +4.9
Bailey Ober 26 pre-arb 11 1.4 0.7 +4.5
Jose Miranda 24 – 125 1.4 0.6 +4.5
Gary Sánchez 29 FA-elig 128 1.4 9.0 -4.0
Chris Paddack 26 arb 5 0.9 2.2 +1.1
Griffin Jax 27 pre-arb 65 0.9 0.7 +2.6
Jovani Morán 25 pre-arb 31 0.9 0.4 +2.8
Ryan Jeffers 25 pre-arb 67 0.8 0.7 +2.1
Trevor Larnach 25 pre-arb 51 0.8 0.7 +2.1
Dylan Bundy 29 FA-elig 29 0.8 4.0 -1.2
Chris Archer 33 FA-elig 25 0.5 2.8 -0.8
Royce Lewis 23 – 12 0.5 0.5 +1.2
Trevor Megill 28 pre-arb 40 0.4 0.1 +1.4
Cody Stashak 28 pre-arb 11 0.4 0.7 +0.6
Jake Cave 29 – 54 0.3 0.3 +1.0
Aaron Sanchez↔ WSN 29 FA-elig 8 0.3 0.1 +1.1
Gilberto Celestino 23 pre-arb 122 0.3 0.7 +0.4
Louis Varland 24 – 5 0.2 – –
Kyle Garlick 30 pre-arb 66 0.1 0.7 -0.2
Jhon Romero 27 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.7 -0.2
Josh Winder 25 – 15 0.1 0.4 +0.0
Matt Wallner 24 – 18 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Juan Minaya 31 FA-elig 6 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Mark Contreras 27 – 28 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Danny Coulombe 32 FA-elig 10 0.0 0.7 -0.6
Ronny Henriquez 22 – 3 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Jorge Alcala 26 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.7 -0.7
José Godoy↔ PIT 27 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Simeon Woods Richardson 21 – 1 -0.0 – –
Austin Davis↔ BOS 29 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Michael Fulmer↔ DET 29 FA-elig 26 -0.0 1.9 -2.1
Jorge López↔ BAL 29 FA-elig 23 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Chi Chi González↔ MIL 30 FA-elig 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Emilio Pagán 31 arb 59 -0.1 2.3 -2.5
Devin Smeltzer 26 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Cole Sands 24 – 11 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Tyler Mahle↔ CIN 27 arb 4 -0.1 0.9 -1.3
Ian Hamilton 27 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Billy Hamilton↔ MIA 31 FA-elig 17 -0.1 0.3 -0.8
Tyler Thornburg↔ ATL 33 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Caleb Hamilton 27 – 22 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Sandy León↔ CLE 33 FA-elig 25 -0.3 0.3 -1.2
Yennier Cano↔ BAL 28 – 10 -0.3 0.1 -1.2
Tyler Duffey 31 FA-elig 40 -0.4 3.8 -5.3
Jharel Cotton↔ SFG 30 FA-elig 25 -0.5 0.6 -2.2
Dereck Rodríguez 30 pre-arb 2 -0.5 0.0 -1.7
Alex Kirilloff 24 pre-arb 45 -0.5 0.6 -2.4
Tim Beckham 32 – 12 -0.5 0.2 -2.0
Joe Smith 38 FA-elig 34 -0.8 2.5 -5.6
Jermaine Palacios 25 – 30 -0.8 0.2 -3.2
Miguel Sanó 29 FA-elig 20 -0.9 9.2 -12.6

61 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 59 of them (97%). 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.