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President of baseball ops: Craig Breslow (since 2024)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-14.9 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
-0.0 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
25–34 (0.424)
record
+164M
surplus $M (value/$)
35.8
roster fWAR
$164.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Ceddanne Rafaela 25 pre-arb 56 4.9 2.2 +43.2
Willson Contreras 34 FA-elig 57 4.8 18.0 +26.6
Ranger Suarez 30 FA-elig 11 4.1 7.6 +30.4
Wilyer Abreu 27 pre-arb 58 3.8 0.8 +34.6
Payton Tolle 23 pre-arb 7 3.8 0.7 +34.8
Sonny Gray 36 FA-elig 10 2.6 11.0 +12.8
Jarren Duran 29 arb 54 2.4 7.7 +14.4
Isiah Kiner-Falefa 31 FA-elig 34 2.3 6.0 +15.3
Aroldis Chapman 38 FA-elig 19 2.3 13.0 +7.9
Carlos Narváez 27 pre-arb 37 1.6 0.8 +13.6
Garrett Whitlock 30 arb 20 1.5 7.5 +6.5
Connelly Early 24 pre-arb 12 1.2 0.8 +10.0
Garrett Crochet 27 arb 6 0.9 24.8 -16.8
Connor Wong 30 arb 24 0.8 1.4 +6.3
Roman Anthony 22 pre-arb 30 0.8 2.6 +4.9
Nick Sogard 28 pre-arb 12 0.7 0.6 +5.8
Mickey Gasper 30 pre-arb 18 0.6 0.6 +5.4
Tyler Samaniego 27 – 20 0.5 0.2 +4.3
Zack Kelly 31 pre-arb 17 0.4 0.2 +3.3
Tyron Guerrero 35 – 6 0.3 – –
Eduardo Rivera 23 – 1 0.2 0.0 +2.1
Jake Bennett 25 – 2 0.1 0.0 +1.1
Alec Gamboa 29 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.8
Jack Anderson 26 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.7
Justin Slaten 28 pre-arb 11 0.0 0.8 -0.4
Danny Coulombe 36 FA-elig 16 -0.1 1.5 -2.1
Jovani Morán 29 pre-arb 20 -0.1 0.8 -1.5
Tyler Uberstine 27 – 1 -0.2 0.0 -2.1
Caleb Durbin 26 pre-arb 53 -0.2 0.8 -3.0
Marcelo Mayer 23 pre-arb 54 -0.3 0.8 -3.3
Brayan Bello 27 arb 11 -0.3 6.2 -8.9
Greg Weissert 31 pre-arb 26 -0.3 0.8 -3.6
Johan Oviedo 28 arb 1 -0.3 1.6 -4.7
Ryan Watson 28 – 21 -0.4 0.8 -4.1
Masataka Yoshida 32 arb 42 -0.4 18.6 -22.0
Andruw Monasterio 29 pre-arb 31 -1.2 0.8 -11.7
Trevor Story 33 FA-elig 41 -1.2 25.0 -36.2

37 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 36 of them (97%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR), annualized to full-season pace. 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 BOS
Jason Varitek199721.2
Josh Beckett200520.1
Derek Lowe199718.0
Curt Schilling200315.2
Eduardo Rodríguez201414.3
Rick Porcello201413.1
Jarrod Saltalamacchia20108.8
Wilyer Abreu20227.5
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Jeff Bagwell199080.2
Brady Anderson198833.0
Hanley Ramírez200529.1
Jamie Moyer199628.0
Carlton Fisk198518.3
Carney Lansford198216.7
Carlos Martínez201316.0
Ernie Whitt198514.7
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.