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GM: Dave Dombrowski (since 2015)

2015 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-8.4
WAB — wins above budget
-8.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-77M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.8
roster fWAR
$171.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mookie Betts 22 pre-arb 145 4.8 0.5 +14.5
Xander Bogaerts 22 pre-arb 156 4.6 0.5 +13.9
Clay Buchholz 30 FA-elig 18 3.2 12.0 -1.8
David Ortiz 39 FA-elig 146 2.9 16.0 -6.9
Wade Miley 28 arb 32 2.7 3.7 +4.8
Dustin Pedroia 31 FA-elig 93 2.3 12.5 -5.2
Brock Holt 27 arb 129 2.0 0.5 +5.9
Jackie Bradley Jr. 25 pre-arb 74 1.9 0.5 +5.4
Eduardo Rodriguez 22 – 21 1.7 0.4 +5.1
Rick Porcello 26 FA-elig 28 1.7 12.5 -7.2
Travis Shaw 25 – 65 1.5 0.2 +4.4
Koji Uehara 40 FA-elig 43 1.4 9.0 -4.6
Joe Kelly 27 arb 25 1.2 0.6 +3.3
Rich Hill 35 FA-elig 4 1.2 0.1 +3.6
Junichi Tazawa 29 FA-elig 61 1.1 2.2 +1.3
Alejandro De Aza↔ BAL 31 FA-elig 60 1.0 2.6 +0.6
Blake Swihart 23 – 84 0.9 0.4 +2.5
Ryan Hanigan 34 FA-elig 54 0.7 3.5 -1.1
Henry Owens 22 – 11 0.7 0.2 +2.0
Shane Victorino↔ ANA 34 FA-elig 33 0.3 6.0 -5.0
Tommy Layne 30 arb 64 0.2 0.6 -0.0
Josh Rutledge 26 arb 39 0.2 0.2 +0.3
Robbie Ross Jr. 26 arb 54 0.1 0.6 -0.2
Anthony Varvaro 30 arb 9 0.1 0.6 -0.3
Rusney Castillo 27 pre-arb 80 0.1 11.3 -11.0
Jemile Weeks 28 pre-arb 3 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Brian Johnson 24 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Jeff Bianchi 28 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Justin Masterson 30 FA-elig 18 -0.0 9.5 -9.6
Carlos Peguero↔ TEX 28 – 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Luis Jimenez↔ MIL 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Mike Napoli↔ TEX 33 FA-elig 98 -0.0 11.8 -11.9
Dalier Hinojosa↔ PHI 29 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Roman Mendez↔ TEX 24 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Jonathan Aro 24 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Garin Cecchini 24 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Steven Wright 30 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Heath Hembree 26 pre-arb 22 -0.2 0.5 -1.2
Noé Ramirez 25 – 17 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Edward Mujica↔ OAK 31 FA-elig 11 -0.3 1.1 -2.0
Jean Machi↔ SFG 33 arb 26 -0.3 0.2 -1.2
Matt Barnes 25 pre-arb 32 -0.4 0.5 -1.7
Deven Marrero 24 – 25 -0.4 0.2 -1.4
Ryan Cook↔ OAK 28 arb 5 -0.4 0.8 -2.2
Daniel Nava↔ TBR 32 arb 29 -0.5 0.9 -2.4
Craig Breslow 34 FA-elig 45 -0.6 2.0 -3.8
Sandy León 26 arb 41 -0.8 0.5 -3.1
Alexi Ogando 31 arb 64 -0.8 1.5 -4.2
Allen Craig 30 arb 36 -0.9 5.5 -8.3
Pablo Sandoval 28 FA-elig 126 -1.2 17.6 -21.4
Hanley Ramirez 31 FA-elig 105 -1.2 19.8 -23.7

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.