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

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.9
WAB — wins above budget
+9.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
87–75 (0.537)
record · made playoffs
+17M
surplus $M (value/$)
43.6
roster fWAR
$154.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Sonny Gray 33 FA-elig 32 5.4 13.3 +8.1
Pablo López 27 arb 32 4.6 5.5 +12.7
Max Kepler 30 FA-elig 130 2.7 8.5 +2.1
Edouard Julien 24 – 109 2.6 0.5 +9.9
Bailey Ober 27 pre-arb 26 2.5 0.5 +9.2
Willi Castro 26 arb 124 2.4 1.8 +7.8
Joe Ryan 27 pre-arb 29 2.3 0.7 +8.5
Royce Lewis 24 pre-arb 58 2.3 0.7 +8.3
Ryan Jeffers 26 arb 96 2.3 0.7 +8.2
Michael A. Taylor 32 FA-elig 129 1.9 4.5 +3.0
Carlos Correa 28 FA-elig 135 1.7 33.3 -26.5
Kenta Maeda 35 FA-elig 21 1.6 3.1 +3.3
Matt Wallner 25 pre-arb 76 1.6 0.4 +5.9
Kyle Farmer 32 FA-elig 120 1.4 5.6 -0.0
Jorge Polanco 29 FA-elig 80 1.3 7.5 -2.2
Griffin Jax 28 pre-arb 71 1.2 0.7 +4.1
Emilio Pagán 32 FA-elig 66 1.2 3.5 +1.2
Donovan Solano 35 FA-elig 134 1.1 2.0 +2.4
Jhoan Duran 25 pre-arb 59 1.1 0.7 +3.6
Brock Stewart 31 pre-arb 28 0.9 0.6 +2.8
Christian Vázquez 32 FA-elig 102 0.8 10.0 -6.7
Joey Gallo 29 FA-elig 111 0.7 11.0 -8.0
Alex Kirilloff 25 pre-arb 88 0.5 0.7 +1.4
Byron Buxton 29 FA-elig 85 0.5 15.1 -13.1
Tyler Mahle 28 FA-elig 5 0.4 7.5 -6.0
Jovani Morán 26 pre-arb 43 0.3 0.7 +0.4
Kody Funderburk 26 – 11 0.3 0.1 +1.0
Dylan Floro↔ MIA 32 FA-elig 19 0.2 1.3 -0.5
José De León 30 – 13 0.2 – –
Dallas Keuchel 35 FA-elig 10 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Louis Varland 25 – 17 0.2 – –
Josh Winder 26 pre-arb 19 0.1 0.7 -0.1
Trevor Larnach 26 pre-arb 58 0.1 0.7 -0.3
Caleb Thielbar 36 FA-elig 36 0.1 2.4 -1.9
Chris Paddack 27 arb 3 0.1 2.5 -2.3
Jordan Luplow↔ TOR 29 arb 32 0.0 0.4 -0.3
Oliver Ortega 26 pre-arb 10 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Dereck Rodríguez↔ ATL 31 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Andrew Stevenson 29 pre-arb 25 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Simeon Woods Richardson 22 – 1 -0.0 – –
Kyle Garlick 31 arb 14 -0.1 0.8 -1.0
Cole Sands 25 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Brent Headrick 25 – 14 -0.3 0.2 -1.4
Jordan Balazovic 24 – 18 -0.4 0.3 -1.7
Jorge Alcala 27 arb 11 -0.4 0.8 -2.5
Nick Gordon 27 pre-arb 34 -0.5 0.7 -2.7
Jorge López↔ BAL 30 FA-elig 37 -0.7 2.1 -4.7
Jose Miranda 25 pre-arb 40 -0.7 0.7 -3.5

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 of them (94%). 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.