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GM: Ben Cherington (since 2012)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-18.0
WAB — wins above budget
-12.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
69–93 (0.426)
record
-80M
surplus $M (value/$)
26.2
roster fWAR
$147.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Dustin Pedroia 28 FA-elig 141 4.3 8.0 +3.1
David Ortiz 36 FA-elig 90 3.1 14.6 -6.6
Cody Ross 31 FA-elig 130 2.7 3.0 +3.9
Jarrod Saltalamacchia 27 arb 121 2.6 2.5 +4.2
Adrián González↔ LAD 30 FA-elig 123 2.4 16.9 -10.8
Jon Lester 28 FA-elig 33 2.3 7.6 -1.6
Will Middlebrooks 23 – 75 2.0 0.5 +4.6
Mike Aviles 31 arb 136 1.5 1.2 +2.7
Josh Beckett↔ LAD 32 FA-elig 21 1.4 12.8 -9.2
Daniel Nava 29 pre-arb 88 1.2 0.4 +2.8
Félix Doubront 24 pre-arb 29 1.2 0.5 +2.5
Junichi Tazawa 26 arb 37 1.1 0.9 +2.0
Kelly Shoppach↔ NYM 32 FA-elig 48 1.1 0.7 +2.1
Pedro Ciriaco 26 pre-arb 76 0.9 0.5 +1.9
Jacoby Ellsbury 28 arb 74 0.8 8.1 -5.9
Scott Atchison 36 FA-elig 42 0.8 0.5 +1.5
Clay Buchholz 27 arb 29 0.7 3.5 -1.6
Ryan Sweeney 27 FA-elig 63 0.7 1.8 +0.0
Andrew Miller 27 FA-elig 53 0.5 1.0 +0.4
Franklin Morales 26 arb 37 0.5 0.8 +0.4
Craig Breslow↔ ARI 31 FA-elig 23 0.4 0.7 +0.4
Rich Hill 32 FA-elig 25 0.3 0.7 +0.1
Carl Crawford 30 FA-elig 31 0.3 20.4 -19.5
Scott Podsednik 36 FA-elig 63 0.3 0.8 +0.0
Vicente Padilla 34 FA-elig 56 0.2 1.5 -0.9
Kevin Youkilis↔ CHW 33 FA-elig 42 0.2 4.2 -3.7
Justin Germano↔ CHC 29 – 1 0.1 – –
Nick Punto↔ LAD 34 FA-elig 65 0.1 1.1 -0.8
Pedro Beato↔ NYM 25 pre-arb 4 0.1 0.2 +0.0
Justin Thomas↔ NYY 28 arb 7 0.0 0.3 -0.2
Alfredo Aceves 29 arb 69 0.0 1.2 -1.2
Andrew Bailey 28 arb 19 -0.0 3.9 -4.0
Michael Bowden↔ CHC 25 arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Guillermo Quiroz 30 – 2 -0.0 – –
Darnell McDonald↔ NYY 33 FA-elig 38 -0.1 0.5 -0.6
Jose Iglesias 22 pre-arb 25 -0.1 2.1 -2.3
Che-Hsuan Lin 23 – 9 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Jason Repko 31 arb 5 -0.1 0.2 -0.5
Nate Spears 27 – 4 -0.1 – –
Brent Lillibridge↔ CHW 28 arb 10 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Lars Anderson 24 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Marlon Byrd↔ CHC 34 FA-elig 35 -0.2 4.7 -5.1
Mauro Gomez 27 pre-arb 37 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Mark Melancon 27 arb 41 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Iván De Jesús Jr.↔ LAD 25 pre-arb 8 -0.3 0.1 -0.8
Chris Carpenter 26 pre-arb 8 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Clayton Mortensen 27 arb 26 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
James Loney↔ LAD 28 FA-elig 30 -0.3 1.3 -2.1
Danny Valencia↔ MIN 27 pre-arb 10 -0.4 0.1 -1.1
Zach Stewart↔ CHW 25 pre-arb 2 -0.4 0.0 -1.0
Daisuke Matsuzaka 31 arb 11 -0.4 10.0 -11.0
Aaron Cook 33 FA-elig 18 -0.4 1.3 -2.3
Matt Albers↔ ARI 29 FA-elig 40 -0.4 0.7 -1.8
Daniel Bard 27 arb 17 -0.7 1.6 -3.5
Ryan Kalish 24 pre-arb 36 -1.0 0.5 -3.1
Ryan Lavarnway 24 pre-arb 46 -1.5 0.5 -4.3

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 53 of them (95%). 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.