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GM: Theo Epstein (since 2007)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.7
WAB — wins above budget
+9.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record
-43M
surplus $M (value/$)
51.1
roster fWAR
$167.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jacoby Ellsbury 27 arb 158 9.5 2.4 +20.7
Dustin Pedroia 27 arb 159 7.9 5.8 +13.5
Adrián González 29 FA-elig 159 6.1 6.3 +8.7
Josh Beckett 31 FA-elig 30 3.7 17.0 -7.9
David Ortiz 35 FA-elig 146 3.7 12.5 -3.5
Kevin Youkilis 32 FA-elig 120 3.5 12.2 -3.7
Jarrod Saltalamacchia 26 arb 103 3.4 0.8 +7.6
Jonathan Papelbon 30 FA-elig 63 3.0 12.0 -4.6
Marco Scutaro 35 FA-elig 113 2.7 5.5 +1.2
Jon Lester 27 arb 31 2.6 5.8 +0.5
Josh Reddick 24 pre-arb 87 2.0 0.4 +4.4
Daniel Bard 26 pre-arb 70 1.3 0.5 +2.8
John Lackey 32 FA-elig 28 0.9 15.9 -13.6
Clay Buchholz 26 arb 14 0.7 0.6 +1.2
Erik Bedard↔ SEA 32 FA-elig 8 0.7 0.3 +1.3
Alfredo Aceves 28 arb 55 0.6 0.7 +0.9
Drew Sutton 28 pre-arb 31 0.4 0.2 +0.8
Scott Atchison 35 FA-elig 17 0.3 0.4 +0.4
Dan Wheeler 33 FA-elig 47 0.3 3.0 -2.4
Ryan Lavarnway 23 – 17 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Mike Aviles↔ KCR 30 arb 38 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Rich Hill 31 arb 9 0.2 0.4 +0.2
Jed Lowrie 27 arb 88 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Daisuke Matsuzaka 30 arb 8 0.2 10.3 -9.9
Yamaico Navarro↔ KCR 23 pre-arb 16 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Matt Albers 28 arb 56 0.1 0.9 -0.6
Franklin Morales↔ COL 25 arb 36 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Hideki Okajima 35 arb 7 0.1 1.8 -1.6
Randy Williams 35 – 7 0.0 0.1 +0.0
Darnell McDonald 32 FA-elig 79 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Trever Miller↔ STL 38 FA-elig 3 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Bobby Jenks 30 FA-elig 19 0.0 6.0 -5.9
Joey Gathright 30 – 7 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Michael Bowden 24 pre-arb 14 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Tim Wakefield 44 FA-elig 33 -0.0 2.0 -2.0
Tommy Hottovy 29 – 8 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Carl Crawford 29 FA-elig 130 -0.0 14.9 -15.0
Junichi Tazawa 25 pre-arb 3 -0.0 1.5 -1.6
Dennys Reyes 34 FA-elig 4 -0.1 0.9 -1.1
Nate Spears 26 – 3 -0.1 – –
Félix Doubront 23 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
Lars Anderson 23 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Jose Iglesias 21 pre-arb 10 -0.2 2.1 -2.5
Andrew Miller 26 pre-arb 17 -0.2 1.3 -1.7
Conor Jackson↔ OAK 29 FA-elig 12 -0.3 0.3 -1.0
J.D. Drew 35 FA-elig 81 -0.3 14.0 -14.7
Kyle Weiland 24 pre-arb 7 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
Mike Cameron↔ MIA 38 FA-elig 33 -1.0 3.3 -5.7
Jason Varitek 39 FA-elig 68 -1.2 2.0 -4.9

49 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 48 of them (98%). 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
Eduardo Rodríguez201414.3
Rick Porcello201413.1
Curt Schilling200312.8
Jarrod Saltalamacchia20108.8
Wilyer Abreu20227.7
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Jeff Bagwell199080.2
Hanley Ramírez200529.1
Jamie Moyer199628.0
Brady Anderson198822.5
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.