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GM: Dan Duquette (since 1995)

1999 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+8.0
WAB — wins above budget
+9.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
94–68 (0.580)
record · made playoffs
-7M
surplus $M (value/$)
47.7
roster fWAR
$66.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Pedro Martínez 27 FA-elig 31 11.6 11.1 +3.5
Nomar Garciaparra 25 arb 135 6.3 1.4 +6.5
Troy O'Leary 29 FA-elig 157 3.3 3.5 +0.7
Bret Saberhagen 35 FA-elig 22 3.3 3.5 +0.6
Trot Nixon 25 arb 124 3.0 0.2 +3.6
Jose Offerman 30 FA-elig 149 2.8 5.0 -1.5
Mike Stanley 36 FA-elig 136 2.2 3.5 -0.7
Derek Lowe 26 pre-arb 74 2.2 0.2 +2.6
Jason Varitek 27 pre-arb 144 2.2 0.2 +2.5
Brian Daubach 27 pre-arb 110 2.0 0.2 +2.3
Pat Rapp 31 FA-elig 37 1.6 1.6 +0.4
John Valentin 32 FA-elig 113 1.3 6.3 -4.7
Darren Lewis 31 FA-elig 135 1.3 2.1 -0.5
Rheal Cormier 32 FA-elig 60 0.9 0.9 +0.2
Rich Garces 28 FA-elig 30 0.7 0.3 +0.6
Juan Pena 22 pre-arb 2 0.7 0.2 +0.6
Kent Mercker↔ STL 31 FA-elig 5 0.7 0.4 +0.4
Tim Wakefield 32 FA-elig 49 0.7 4.0 -3.2
Damon Buford 29 FA-elig 91 0.6 1.1 -0.4
Mark Portugal 36 FA-elig 31 0.6 2.7 -2.0
Rod Beck↔ CHC 30 FA-elig 12 0.4 1.5 -1.0
Scott Hatteberg 29 arb 30 0.4 0.3 +0.2
Bryce Florie↔ DET 29 arb 14 0.4 0.4 +0.0
Ramon Martinez 31 FA-elig 4 0.3 1.5 -1.1
Brian Rose 23 – 22 0.2 – –
Creighton Gubanich 27 – 18 0.2 – –
Tom Gordon 31 FA-elig 21 0.2 3.8 -3.5
Tim Harikkala 27 – 7 0.2 – –
Jin Ho Cho 23 – 9 0.1 – –
John Wasdin 26 arb 45 0.1 0.5 -0.4
Steve Lomasney 21 – 1 0.1 – –
Reggie Jefferson 30 FA-elig 83 -0.0 3.4 -3.4
Lou Merloni 28 pre-arb 43 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Kirk Bullinger 29 – 4 -0.0 – –
Tomo Ohka 23 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.2 -0.3
Donnie Sadler 24 pre-arb 49 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Chad Fonville 28 – 3 -0.1 – –
Butch Huskey↔ SEA 27 FA-elig 45 -0.1 0.6 -0.6
Bob Wolcott 25 – 4 -0.1 – –
Michael Coleman 23 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Wilton Veras 21 pre-arb 36 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Jon Nunnally 27 – 10 -0.2 – –
Marino Santana 27 – 3 -0.2 – –
Lenny Webster↔ BAL 34 FA-elig 6 -0.2 0.2 -0.5
Kip Gross 34 FA-elig 11 -0.3 0.5 -0.8
Mark Guthrie↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 46 -0.3 1.3 -1.7
Jeff Frye 32 FA-elig 41 -0.5 2.4 -3.0
Jim Corsi↔ BAL 37 FA-elig 23 -0.6 0.5 -1.2

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 38 of them (79%). 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.