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GM: Dan Duquette (since 1995)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+12.8
WAB — wins above budget
+20.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
86–58 (0.597)
record · made playoffs
+13M
surplus $M (value/$)
48.6
roster fWAR
$34.3M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
John Valentin 28 arb 135 8.2 0.6 +7.3
Mo Vaughn 27 arb 140 5.1 2.8 +2.1
Tim Naehring 28 arb 126 4.1 0.6 +3.3
Erik Hanson 30 FA-elig 29 4.1 1.5 +2.4
Tim Wakefield 28 arb 27 2.6 0.2 +2.4
Mike Greenwell 31 FA-elig 120 2.6 3.6 -1.1
Jose Canseco 30 FA-elig 102 2.5 5.8 -3.4
Zane Smith 34 FA-elig 24 2.4 1.5 +0.8
Roger Clemens 32 FA-elig 23 2.4 5.7 -3.4
Lee Tinsley 26 pre-arb 100 2.4 0.1 +2.2
Troy O'Leary 25 pre-arb 112 2.0 0.1 +1.8
Mike Maddux↔ PIT 33 FA-elig 36 2.0 0.2 +1.7
Luis Alicea 29 FA-elig 132 1.9 0.8 +1.1
Rheal Cormier 28 arb 48 1.7 0.6 +1.1
Dwayne Hosey 28 pre-arb 24 1.6 0.1 +1.4
Vaughn Eshelman 26 pre-arb 23 1.5 0.1 +1.3
Stan Belinda 28 FA-elig 63 1.2 0.6 +0.6
Mike Macfarlane 31 FA-elig 115 0.9 1.7 -0.9
Bill Haselman 29 arb 64 0.4 0.2 +0.2
Jeff Suppan 20 pre-arb 8 0.4 0.1 +0.3
Aaron Sele 25 pre-arb 6 0.4 0.3 +0.1
Rick Aguilera↔ MIN 33 FA-elig 30 0.4 2.5 -2.1
Joe Hudson 24 pre-arb 39 0.4 0.1 +0.3
Chris Donnels↔ HOU 29 arb 40 0.4 0.1 +0.2
Willie McGee 36 FA-elig 67 0.3 0.3 -0.0
Jeff Pierce 26 – 12 0.1 – –
Eric Gunderson↔ NYM 29 arb 19 0.1 0.0 +0.0
Carlos Rodriguez 27 arb 13 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Reggie Jefferson 26 arb 46 0.0 0.6 -0.5
Scott Hatteberg 25 – 2 0.0 – –
Dave Hollins↔ PHI 29 arb 5 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Brian Bark 26 – 3 0.0 – –
Ken Ryan 26 arb 28 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Keith Shepherd 27 – 2 -0.0 – –
Mike Stanton↔ ATL 28 FA-elig 22 -0.1 0.7 -0.7
Matt Murray↔ ATL 24 – 2 -0.1 – –
Ron Mahay 24 – 5 -0.1 – –
Frankie Rodriguez↔ MIN 22 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Mike Hartley↔ BAL 33 – 5 -0.1 – –
Alejandro Pena↔ ATL 36 FA-elig 17 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Joel Johnston 28 – 4 -0.1 – –
Brian Looney 25 – 3 -0.1 – –
Matt Stairs 27 arb 39 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Chris James↔ KCR 32 FA-elig 16 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Tim Van Egmond 26 pre-arb 4 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Steve Rodriguez↔ DET 24 – 6 -0.2 – –
Juan Bell 27 FA-elig 17 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Karl Rhodes↔ CHC 26 – 10 -0.2 – –
Mark Whiten↔ PHI 28 arb 32 -0.3 0.6 -0.8
Rich Rowland 31 arb 14 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Terry Shumpert 28 arb 21 -0.4 0.2 -0.6
Wes Chamberlain 29 – 19 -0.4 – –
Derek Lilliquist 29 FA-elig 28 -0.7 0.5 -1.1

53 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 41 of them (77%). 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.