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GM: Theo Epstein (since 2007)

2009 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+8.4
WAB — wins above budget
+3.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–67 (0.586)
record · made playoffs
-30M
surplus $M (value/$)
42.3
roster fWAR
$130.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Kevin Youkilis 30 arb 136 5.9 6.2 +7.8
Jon Lester 25 arb 32 5.3 1.0 +11.6
J.D. Drew 33 FA-elig 137 4.9 14.0 -2.4
Dustin Pedroia 25 arb 154 4.7 1.8 +9.3
Jason Bay 30 FA-elig 151 4.6 7.8 +3.1
Josh Beckett 29 FA-elig 32 4.3 11.2 -0.9
Jacoby Ellsbury 25 pre-arb 153 2.1 0.4 +4.4
Jonathan Papelbon 28 arb 66 1.9 6.2 -1.8
Tim Wakefield 42 FA-elig 21 1.9 4.0 +0.4
Brad Penny↔ SFG 31 FA-elig 24 1.3 4.0 -0.9
Victor Martinez↔ CLE 30 FA-elig 56 1.3 2.1 +0.9
Álex González↔ CIN 32 FA-elig 44 0.9 2.1 +0.1
Justin Masterson↔ CLE 24 pre-arb 31 0.8 0.3 +1.7
Clay Buchholz 24 pre-arb 17 0.7 0.4 +1.3
Daniel Bard 24 pre-arb 49 0.7 0.4 +1.2
Hideki Okajima 33 pre-arb 68 0.5 1.8 -0.5
Rocco Baldelli 27 FA-elig 62 0.5 0.5 +0.7
Takashi Saito 39 arb 56 0.3 1.5 -0.7
David Ortiz 33 FA-elig 150 0.3 13.0 -12.3
Billy Wagner↔ NYM 37 FA-elig 15 0.3 9.3 -8.6
Ramon E Ramirez 27 arb 70 0.3 0.4 +0.2
Jeff Bailey 30 – 26 0.3 – –
Daisuke Matsuzaka 28 pre-arb 12 0.3 8.3 -7.7
Paul Byrd 38 – 7 0.2 – –
John Smoltz↔ STL 42 FA-elig 8 0.2 2.9 -2.5
Jonathan Van Every 29 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Dusty Brown 27 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.4 -0.0
Joey Gathright↔ CHC 28 arb 17 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Fernando Cabrera 27 – 6 0.1 – –
Manny Delcarmen 27 arb 64 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Adam LaRoche↔ ATL 29 arb 6 0.0 0.3 -0.2
Brian Anderson↔ CHW 27 arb 21 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Dustin Richardson 25 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Gil Velazquez 29 – 6 -0.0 – –
George Kottaras 26 pre-arb 45 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Nick Green 30 arb 104 -0.0 0.6 -0.6
Mike Lowell 35 FA-elig 119 -0.0 12.5 -12.5
Aaron Bates 25 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Chris Woodward↔ SEA 33 – 13 -0.0 – –
Michael Bowden 22 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Casey Kotchman↔ ATL 26 arb 39 -0.1 0.9 -1.0
Junichi Tazawa 23 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Enrique Gonzalez 26 – 2 -0.1 – –
Chris Carter 26 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Hunter Jones 25 pre-arb 11 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Javier López 31 FA-elig 14 -0.2 1.4 -1.8
Billy Traber 29 – 1 -0.2 – –
Jason Varitek 37 FA-elig 109 -0.3 5.0 -5.6
Josh Reddick 22 pre-arb 27 -0.3 0.4 -1.1
Jed Lowrie 25 pre-arb 32 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
Mark Kotsay↔ CHW 33 FA-elig 27 -0.4 0.6 -1.5
Julio Lugo↔ STL 33 FA-elig 37 -0.4 3.9 -4.9

52 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 of them (87%). 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.