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GM: Dan Duquette (since 1995)

2001 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-7.0
WAB — wins above budget
-8.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
82–79 (0.509)
record
-58M
surplus $M (value/$)
33.3
roster fWAR
$111.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Pedro Martínez 29 FA-elig 18 5.5 13.0 -4.1
Manny Ramirez 29 FA-elig 142 5.2 13.1 -4.7
Trot Nixon 27 arb 148 3.5 0.4 +5.2
Hideo Nomo 32 FA-elig 33 3.0 4.5 +0.4
Tim Wakefield 34 FA-elig 45 2.2 3.0 +0.6
Frank Castillo 32 FA-elig 26 2.2 2.2 +1.3
Brian Daubach 29 arb 122 2.0 0.4 +2.8
Jason Varitek 29 arb 51 1.7 1.8 +0.9
Derek Lowe 28 arb 67 1.6 2.1 +0.5
Jose Offerman 32 FA-elig 128 1.4 6.8 -4.5
David Cone 38 FA-elig 25 1.4 1.0 +1.3
Doug Mirabelli↔ TEX 30 arb 54 1.4 0.2 +2.0
Rolando Arrojo 35 arb 41 1.2 1.6 +0.3
Ugueth Urbina↔ WSN 27 FA-elig 19 0.9 1.2 +0.2
Chris Stynes 28 FA-elig 96 0.8 1.3 -0.1
Carl Everett 30 FA-elig 102 0.6 7.3 -6.4
Lou Merloni 30 – 52 0.5 – –
Paxton Crawford 23 pre-arb 8 0.5 0.2 +0.7
Dante Bichette 37 FA-elig 107 0.5 7.0 -6.1
Rich Garces 30 FA-elig 62 0.4 1.4 -0.7
Tomo Ohka↔ WSN 25 pre-arb 12 0.4 0.1 +0.6
Sun-Woo Kim 23 – 20 0.4 – –
Nomar Garciaparra 27 arb 21 0.3 7.2 -6.7
Calvin Pickering↔ CIN 24 – 17 0.3 – –
Darren Lewis 33 FA-elig 82 0.2 2.5 -2.1
Casey Fossum 23 – 13 0.2 – –
Willie Banks 32 – 5 0.2 – –
Bret Saberhagen 37 FA-elig 3 0.1 5.0 -4.8
Marcus Jensen↔ TEX 28 – 1 0.1 – –
Allen McDill 29 – 15 0.0 – –
Hipolito Pichardo 31 FA-elig 30 0.0 1.7 -1.6
John Valentin 34 FA-elig 20 0.0 6.3 -6.3
Bryce Florie 31 FA-elig 7 -0.1 1.4 -1.6
Joe Oliver↔ NYY 35 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.3 -0.4
Carlos Castillo 26 – 2 -0.1 – –
Shea Hillenbrand 25 pre-arb 139 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Pete Schourek 32 FA-elig 33 -0.2 1.0 -1.3
Todd Erdos 27 – 10 -0.2 – –
Mike Lansing 33 FA-elig 106 -0.3 6.2 -6.7
Angel Santos 21 – 9 -0.3 – –
Bill Pulsipher↔ CHW 27 – 23 -0.3 – –
Izzy Alcantara 28 – 14 -0.3 – –
Troy O'Leary 31 FA-elig 104 -0.4 4.6 -5.2
Morgan Burkhart 29 – 11 -0.4 – –
James Lofton 27 – 8 -0.4 – –
Rod Beck 32 FA-elig 68 -0.6 4.5 -5.5
Craig Grebeck 36 FA-elig 23 -0.7 0.7 -1.8
Scott Hatteberg 31 FA-elig 94 -1.2 1.1 -3.1

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 34 of them (71%). 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.