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GM: Lou Gorman (since 1993)

1994 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.8
WAB — wins above budget
-9.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
54–61 (0.470)
record
-14M
surplus $M (value/$)
18.9
roster fWAR
$37.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Roger Clemens 31 FA-elig 24 4.2 5.2 -0.3
John Valentin 27 pre-arb 84 4.1 0.4 +4.3
Mo Vaughn 26 arb 111 2.6 0.7 +2.3
Aaron Sele 24 pre-arb 22 2.4 0.2 +2.6
Joe Hesketh 35 FA-elig 25 2.3 1.8 +1.0
Scott Cooper 26 arb 104 2.0 0.5 +1.8
Tim Naehring 27 arb 80 1.7 0.3 +1.6
Ken Ryan 25 pre-arb 42 1.1 0.2 +1.2
Danny Darwin 38 FA-elig 13 0.8 2.6 -1.8
Scott Fletcher 35 FA-elig 63 0.5 0.5 +0.1
Otis Nixon 35 FA-elig 103 0.4 3.2 -2.8
Rich Rowland 30 arb 46 0.4 0.1 +0.4
Lee Tinsley 25 pre-arb 78 0.4 0.1 +0.4
Nate Minchey 24 pre-arb 6 0.4 0.1 +0.3
Tom Brunansky↔ MIL 33 FA-elig 48 0.3 0.8 -0.5
Gar Finnvold 26 – 8 0.3 – –
Frank Viola 34 FA-elig 6 0.3 4.3 -4.0
Scott Bankhead 30 FA-elig 27 0.2 1.4 -1.2
Mike Greenwell 30 FA-elig 95 0.2 3.3 -3.1
Chris Howard 28 – 37 0.2 – –
Carlos Rodriguez 26 arb 57 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Jeff Russell↔ CLE 32 FA-elig 29 0.1 2.1 -1.9
Chris Nabholz↔ CLE 27 arb 8 0.1 0.5 -0.5
Steve Farr↔ CLE 37 FA-elig 11 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Damon Berryhill 30 FA-elig 82 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Andy Tomberlin 27 – 18 0.0 – –
Tim Van Egmond 25 pre-arb 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Paul Quantrill↔ PHI 25 pre-arb 17 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Tony Fossas 36 FA-elig 44 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Greg Harris↔ NYY 38 FA-elig 35 -0.1 1.6 -1.7
Greg Blosser 23 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Eric Wedge 26 – 2 -0.1 – –
Stan Royer↔ STL 26 arb 4 -0.2 0.0 -0.2
Cory Bailey 23 – 5 -0.2 – –
Jose Melendez 28 – 10 -0.2 – –
Todd Frohwirth 31 – 22 -0.2 – –
Luis Ortiz 24 – 7 -0.3 – –
Sergio Valdez 29 FA-elig 12 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Wes Chamberlain↔ PHI 28 arb 51 -0.4 0.2 -0.7
Bob Zupcic↔ CHW 27 – 4 -0.5 – –
Ricky Trlicek 25 pre-arb 12 -0.5 0.2 -0.7
Dave Valle↔ MIL 33 FA-elig 30 -0.6 0.8 -1.5
Andre Dawson 39 FA-elig 75 -0.7 4.4 -5.2
Greg Litton 29 – 11 -0.8 – –
Billy Hatcher↔ PHI 33 FA-elig 44 -1.1 0.3 -1.6

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (78%). 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.