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GM: Dan Duquette (since 1995)

1998 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.5
WAB — wins above budget
+10.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
92–70 (0.568)
record · made playoffs
+0M
surplus $M (value/$)
46.6
roster fWAR
$50.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Nomar Garciaparra 24 pre-arb 143 7.3 1.1 +6.8
Mo Vaughn 30 FA-elig 154 6.3 6.7 +0.1
Pedro Martínez 26 FA-elig 33 5.6 7.6 -1.5
John Valentin 31 FA-elig 153 4.5 5.3 -0.5
Tom Gordon 30 FA-elig 73 2.7 3.3 -0.4
Darren Bragg 28 arb 129 2.6 0.4 +2.5
Bret Saberhagen 34 FA-elig 31 2.5 3.8 -1.1
Derek Lowe 25 pre-arb 63 2.4 0.2 +2.4
Scott Hatteberg 28 arb 112 2.2 0.2 +2.1
Mike Benjamin 32 FA-elig 124 2.1 0.2 +2.0
Tim Wakefield 31 FA-elig 37 1.7 3.5 -1.7
Darren Lewis 30 FA-elig 155 1.6 0.5 +1.3
Troy O'Leary 28 arb 156 1.1 2.4 -1.2
Damon Buford 28 arb 86 0.9 0.5 +0.5
Reggie Jefferson 29 FA-elig 62 0.9 3.2 -2.2
Jim Leyritz↔ SDP 34 FA-elig 52 0.7 0.9 -0.2
Mike Stanley↔ TOR 35 FA-elig 47 0.7 0.6 +0.1
Jim Corsi 36 FA-elig 59 0.6 0.6 +0.1
Pete Schourek↔ HOU 29 FA-elig 10 0.5 0.6 -0.1
John Wasdin 25 arb 47 0.4 0.2 +0.2
Midre Cummings 26 arb 67 0.4 0.2 +0.2
Carlos Reyes↔ SDP 29 arb 24 0.3 0.2 +0.2
Billy Ashley 27 – 13 0.3 – –
Steve Avery 28 FA-elig 39 0.3 3.9 -3.6
Lou Merloni 27 pre-arb 39 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Jin Ho Cho 22 – 4 0.1 – –
Jason Varitek 26 pre-arb 86 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Donnie Sadler 23 pre-arb 58 0.1 0.2 -0.1
Keith Johns 26 – 2 0.0 – –
Mandy Romero↔ SDP 30 – 12 0.0 – –
Carlos Valdez 26 – 4 -0.0 – –
Trot Nixon 24 pre-arb 13 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Butch Henry 29 FA-elig 2 -0.0 1.4 -1.4
Dennis Eckersley 43 FA-elig 50 -0.0 1.5 -1.5
Greg Swindell↔ MIN 33 FA-elig 29 -0.1 0.5 -0.5
Dario Veras 25 – 7 -0.1 – –
Chris Snopek↔ CHW 27 arb 8 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Ron Mahay 27 – 29 -0.1 – –
Mark Lemke 32 – 31 -0.1 – –
Brian Shouse 29 – 7 -0.2 – –
David West 33 – 6 -0.2 – –
Orlando Merced↔ CHC 31 FA-elig 9 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Keith Mitchell 28 FA-elig 23 -0.2 0.2 -0.4
Robinson Checo 26 – 2 -0.2 – –
Rich Garces 27 FA-elig 30 -0.3 0.2 -0.5
Brian Barkley 22 – 6 -0.3 – –
Brian Rose 22 pre-arb 8 -0.3 0.2 -0.5

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 35 of them (74%). 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.