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GM: Lou Gorman (since 1985)

1990 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+3.3
WAB — wins above budget
+2.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
88–74 (0.543)
record · made playoffs
-3M
surplus $M (value/$)
38.8
roster fWAR
$20.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Roger Clemens 27 FA-elig 31 8.2 2.6 +1.0
Mike Boddicker 32 FA-elig 34 4.1 0.7 +1.1
Ellis Burks 25 arb 152 3.3 0.5 +1.0
Wade Boggs 32 FA-elig 155 3.2 1.9 -0.5
Jody Reed 27 arb 155 2.8 0.3 +0.9
Dana Kiecker 29 pre-arb 32 2.7 0.1 +1.1
Greg Harris 34 FA-elig 34 2.6 0.6 +0.6
Mike Greenwell 26 arb 159 2.4 1.2 -0.1
Tom Brunansky↔ STL 29 FA-elig 129 1.8 1.3 -0.5
Tom Bolton 28 arb 21 1.8 0.1 +0.7
Carlos Quintana 24 pre-arb 149 1.8 0.1 +0.7
Tony Peña Sr. 33 FA-elig 143 1.5 1.7 -1.0
Jeff Gray 27 pre-arb 41 1.2 0.1 +0.4
Larry Andersen↔ HOU 37 FA-elig 15 1.0 0.2 +0.2
Wes Gardner 29 FA-elig 34 0.8 0.4 +0.0
Kevin Romine 29 arb 70 0.4 0.2 -0.1
Dwight Evans 38 FA-elig 123 0.4 1.5 -1.3
Joe Hesketh↔ ATL 31 FA-elig 12 0.4 0.1 +0.1
Lee Smith↔ STL 32 FA-elig 11 0.4 0.2 -0.0
Jerry Reed↔ SEA 34 FA-elig 29 0.4 0.3 -0.2
Mike Marshall↔ NYM 30 FA-elig 30 0.3 0.4 -0.3
Dennis Lamp 37 FA-elig 47 0.3 0.7 -0.6
Jeff Reardon 34 FA-elig 47 0.2 1.6 -1.5
Eric Hetzel 26 pre-arb 9 0.2 0.1 -0.0
Tim Naehring 23 pre-arb 24 0.1 0.1 -0.0
Rich Gedman↔ HOU 30 FA-elig 10 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Daryl Irvine 25 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.1 -0.1
John Dopson 26 arb 4 0.1 0.3 -0.2
John Leister 29 – 2 0.0 – –
Scott Cooper 22 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Jeff Stone 29 – 10 -0.0 – –
Phil Plantier 21 pre-arb 14 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
John Marzano 27 arb 32 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Mike Rochford 27 pre-arb 2 -0.2 0.1 -0.2
Marty Barrett 32 FA-elig 62 -0.2 1.0 -1.1
Rick Lancellotti 33 – 4 -0.2 – –
Billy Jo Robidoux 26 – 27 -0.2 – –
Randy Kutcher 30 arb 63 -0.3 0.2 -0.3
Danny Heep 32 FA-elig 41 -0.5 0.6 -0.8
Bill Buckner 40 – 22 -0.6 – –
Rob Murphy 30 arb 68 -0.6 0.8 -1.0
Luis Rivera 26 arb 118 -0.7 0.2 -0.6

42 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (88%). 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 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.