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GM: Ben Cherington (since 2012)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-14.1
WAB — wins above budget
-9.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
71–91 (0.438)
record
-63M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.0
roster fWAR
$144.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Dustin Pedroia 30 FA-elig 135 3.8 12.5 -1.4
Jon Lester↔ OAK 30 FA-elig 21 3.8 8.5 +2.4
Daniel Nava 31 arb 113 2.3 0.6 +6.1
David Ortiz 38 FA-elig 142 2.2 15.0 -8.5
Brock Holt 26 pre-arb 106 2.2 0.4 +5.9
Christian Vázquez 23 – 55 2.1 0.2 +6.0
Mike Napoli 32 FA-elig 119 2.1 16.0 -9.8
John Lackey↔ STL 35 FA-elig 21 2.0 10.3 -4.5
Mookie Betts 21 – 52 1.8 0.3 +5.0
Clay Buchholz 29 FA-elig 28 1.4 7.7 -3.7
Andrew Miller↔ BAL 29 FA-elig 50 1.3 1.3 +2.4
David Ross 37 FA-elig 50 1.1 3.1 +0.2
Koji Uehara 39 arb 64 1.1 5.0 -1.9
Yoenis Cespedes↔ OAK 28 pre-arb 51 0.9 3.5 -0.8
Junichi Tazawa 28 arb 71 0.9 1.3 +1.3
Rusney Castillo 26 pre-arb 10 0.9 0.9 +1.7
Burke Badenhop 31 FA-elig 70 0.7 2.1 -0.2
Jonny Gomes↔ OAK 33 FA-elig 78 0.5 3.5 -1.9
Rubby De La Rosa 25 – 19 0.4 – –
Garin Cecchini 23 pre-arb 11 0.3 0.0 +0.8
Stephen Drew↔ NYY 31 FA-elig 39 0.3 4.6 -3.9
Jemile Weeks↔ BAL 27 arb 14 0.3 0.4 +0.3
Brandon Workman 25 pre-arb 19 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Carlos Rivero 26 pre-arb 4 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Steven Wright 29 pre-arb 6 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Shane Victorino 33 FA-elig 30 0.2 13.0 -12.4
Jackie Bradley Jr. 24 pre-arb 127 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Allen Webster 24 pre-arb 11 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Edward Mujica 30 FA-elig 64 0.2 4.8 -4.3
Drake Britton 25 pre-arb 7 0.2 0.5 -0.1
Tommy Layne 29 pre-arb 30 0.1 0.2 +0.2
Joe Kelly↔ STL 26 pre-arb 10 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Jake Peavy↔ SFG 33 FA-elig 20 0.1 9.1 -8.8
Xander Bogaerts 21 pre-arb 144 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Jonathan Herrera 29 FA-elig 42 0.0 1.3 -1.2
Edwin Escobar 22 – 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Chris Capuano↔ NYY 35 FA-elig 28 0.0 1.6 -1.5
Matt Barnes 24 – 5 0.0 – –
Corey Brown 28 – 3 0.0 – –
Bryce Brentz 25 – 9 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Alex Wilson 27 pre-arb 18 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Alex Hassan 26 – 3 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Heath Hembree 25 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Dan Butler 27 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Ryan Roberts 33 – 8 -0.2 – –
Ryan Lavarnway 26 arb 9 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Mike Carp↔ TEX 28 arb 42 -0.3 1.0 -1.7
Kelly Johnson↔ BAL 32 FA-elig 10 -0.3 0.3 -1.1
Félix Doubront↔ CHC 26 arb 17 -0.3 0.5 -1.3
Grady Sizemore↔ PHI 31 FA-elig 52 -0.3 0.4 -1.3
A.J. Pierzynski↔ STL 37 FA-elig 72 -0.8 5.8 -8.1
Anthony Ranaudo 24 pre-arb 7 -0.8 0.1 -2.5
Will Middlebrooks 25 pre-arb 63 -0.9 0.5 -3.1
Craig Breslow 33 FA-elig 60 -0.9 3.8 -6.4
Allen Craig↔ STL 29 arb 29 -1.1 0.6 -3.7

55 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 51 of them (93%). 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.