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GM: Ben Cherington (since 2012)

2013 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+8.9
WAB — wins above budget
+11.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
97–65 (0.599)
record · World Series champions
-27M
surplus $M (value/$)
51.5
roster fWAR
$166.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Dustin Pedroia 29 FA-elig 160 4.8 10.0 +3.0
Shane Victorino 32 FA-elig 122 4.7 13.0 -0.5
Jacoby Ellsbury 29 FA-elig 134 4.6 9.0 +3.3
Stephen Drew 30 FA-elig 124 3.6 9.5 +0.2
David Ortiz 37 FA-elig 137 3.4 14.0 -4.9
Mike Napoli 31 FA-elig 139 3.4 13.0 -4.0
Jon Lester 29 FA-elig 33 3.2 11.6 -3.0
Koji Uehara 38 arb 73 3.1 4.2 +4.0
Jarrod Saltalamacchia 28 FA-elig 121 2.8 4.5 +2.9
Clay Buchholz 28 FA-elig 16 2.7 5.5 +1.8
Daniel Nava 30 arb 134 2.7 0.5 +6.7
John Lackey 34 FA-elig 29 2.4 15.2 -8.9
Félix Doubront 25 arb 29 2.2 0.5 +5.4
Jose Iglesias↔ DET 23 pre-arb 63 1.8 1.2 +3.7
Jonny Gomes 32 FA-elig 116 1.5 5.0 -0.9
David Ross 36 FA-elig 36 1.4 3.1 +0.6
Mike Carp 27 arb 86 1.4 0.5 +3.2
Jake Peavy↔ CHW 32 FA-elig 10 1.0 6.3 -3.6
Junichi Tazawa 27 arb 71 0.8 0.8 +1.5
Brandon Workman 24 – 20 0.5 0.2 +1.2
Will Middlebrooks 24 pre-arb 94 0.5 0.5 +0.8
Craig Breslow 32 FA-elig 61 0.5 2.3 -1.1
Ryan Dempster 36 FA-elig 32 0.5 13.2 -12.0
Quintin Berry 28 pre-arb 13 0.4 0.1 +1.0
Andrew Miller 28 FA-elig 37 0.3 1.5 -0.6
Drake Britton 24 pre-arb 19 0.3 0.2 +0.6
Alex Wilson 26 – 26 0.3 0.5 +0.2
Ryan Lavarnway 25 pre-arb 25 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Matt Thornton↔ CHW 36 FA-elig 20 0.2 1.8 -1.3
Xander Bogaerts 20 – 18 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Steven Wright 28 – 4 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Brayan Villarreal↔ DET 26 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Pedro Beato 26 pre-arb 10 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
John McDonald↔ CLE 38 FA-elig 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Daniel Bard 28 – 2 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Franklin Morales 27 FA-elig 20 -0.1 1.5 -1.7
Jonathan Diaz 28 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Jose De La Torre 27 – 7 -0.1 – –
Andrew Bailey 29 arb 30 -0.2 4.1 -4.5
Rubby De La Rosa 24 – 11 -0.2 – –
Jackie Bradley Jr. 23 pre-arb 37 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Brandon Snyder 26 pre-arb 27 -0.2 0.3 -0.9
Clayton Mortensen 28 arb 24 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Brock Holt 25 pre-arb 26 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Allen Webster 23 – 8 -0.5 0.1 -1.4
Pedro Ciriaco↔ KCR 27 arb 28 -0.5 0.3 -1.6
Alfredo Aceves 30 arb 11 -0.6 2.6 -4.2
Joel Hanrahan 31 FA-elig 9 -0.7 7.0 -8.9

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 46 of them (96%). 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.