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GM: Dan Duquette (since 1995)

2000 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-1.6
WAB — wins above budget
-1.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–77 (0.525)
record
-24M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.9
roster fWAR
$77.6M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Pedro Martínez 28 FA-elig 29 9.4 11.5 +1.8
Nomar Garciaparra 26 arb 140 7.6 3.7 +7.0
Carl Everett 29 FA-elig 137 4.7 5.0 +1.7
Trot Nixon 26 arb 123 2.6 0.3 +3.4
Derek Lowe 27 arb 74 2.3 0.6 +2.7
Jeff Fassero 37 FA-elig 38 1.7 2.0 +0.5
Jason Varitek 28 arb 139 1.5 0.4 +1.8
Troy O'Leary 30 FA-elig 138 1.4 4.0 -2.1
Rich Garces 29 FA-elig 64 1.3 0.6 +1.3
Hipolito Pichardo 30 FA-elig 38 1.1 1.2 +0.4
Tomo Ohka 24 pre-arb 13 1.0 0.2 +1.2
Ramon Martinez 32 FA-elig 27 0.9 6.3 -5.0
Pete Schourek 31 FA-elig 22 0.9 0.2 +1.0
Rod Beck 31 FA-elig 34 0.9 3.5 -2.3
Rolando Arrojo↔ COL 31 pre-arb 13 0.8 0.1 +1.0
Rheal Cormier 33 FA-elig 64 0.8 2.0 -0.9
Paxton Crawford 22 – 7 0.6 – –
Brian Daubach 28 pre-arb 142 0.6 0.3 +0.6
Morgan Burkhart 28 – 25 0.5 – –
Jose Offerman 31 FA-elig 116 0.4 5.8 -5.2
Jeff Frye↔ COL 33 FA-elig 69 0.3 1.6 -1.2
Dante Bichette↔ CIN 36 FA-elig 30 0.3 1.4 -1.0
Bryce Florie 30 FA-elig 29 0.3 1.4 -1.0
Lou Merloni 29 pre-arb 40 0.2 0.2 +0.0
Izzy Alcantara 27 pre-arb 21 0.2 0.2 +0.1
Mike Stanley↔ OAK 37 FA-elig 58 0.1 2.3 -2.1
Curtis Pride 31 – 9 0.1 – –
Midre Cummings↔ MIN 28 FA-elig 21 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Bernard Gilkey↔ ARI 33 FA-elig 36 0.1 2.6 -2.5
Scott Hatteberg 30 arb 92 0.1 0.7 -0.6
John Wasdin↔ COL 27 arb 25 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Ed Sprague Jr.↔ SDP 32 FA-elig 33 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Dan Smith 24 – 2 -0.0 – –
Donnie Sadler 25 – 49 -0.0 – –
Rick Croushore↔ COL 29 – 5 -0.0 – –
John Valentin 33 FA-elig 10 -0.1 6.3 -6.5
Sang-Hoon Lee 29 – 9 -0.1 – –
Steve Ontiveros 39 – 3 -0.1 – –
Rob Stanifer 28 – 8 -0.2 – –
Jesus Pena↔ CHW 25 – 2 -0.2 – –
Tim Young 26 – 8 -0.2 – –
Hector Carrasco↔ MIN 30 FA-elig 8 -0.2 0.1 -0.4
Sean Berry↔ MIL 34 FA-elig 1 -0.2 0.1 -0.4
Darren Lewis 32 FA-elig 97 -0.2 2.4 -2.7
Brian Rose↔ COL 24 arb 15 -0.2 0.1 -0.5
Gary Gaetti 41 FA-elig 5 -0.3 0.3 -0.8
Tim Wakefield 33 FA-elig 52 -0.3 4.5 -5.0
Andy Sheets 28 – 12 -0.4 – –
Rico Brogna↔ PHI 30 FA-elig 43 -0.5 2.2 -2.9
Manny Alexander 29 FA-elig 101 -0.8 0.6 -1.7
Wilton Veras 22 – 49 -0.8 – –
Mike Lansing↔ COL 32 FA-elig 49 -1.1 2.2 -3.7

52 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 39 of them (75%). 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.