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President of baseball ops: Dave Dombrowski (since 2016)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.0
WAB — wins above budget
+9.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
93–69 (0.574)
record · made playoffs
-38M
surplus $M (value/$)
49.9
roster fWAR
$199.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mookie Betts 23 pre-arb 158 7.4 0.6 +23.4
Jackie Bradley Jr. 26 arb 156 5.6 0.5 +17.5
Rick Porcello 27 FA-elig 33 5.1 20.1 -3.5
David Ortiz 40 FA-elig 151 4.6 16.0 -1.2
David Price 30 FA-elig 35 4.3 30.0 -16.0
Dustin Pedroia 32 FA-elig 154 3.9 13.0 -0.4
Xander Bogaerts 23 arb 157 3.7 0.7 +11.2
Hanley Ramirez 32 FA-elig 147 2.8 22.8 -13.5
Steven Wright 31 arb 25 2.8 0.5 +8.7
Sandy León 27 pre-arb 78 1.9 0.4 +5.9
Craig Kimbrel 28 FA-elig 57 1.2 11.2 -7.3
Eduardo Rodriguez 23 pre-arb 20 1.2 0.5 +3.3
Chris Young 32 FA-elig 76 1.0 6.5 -3.3
Brock Holt 28 arb 94 0.9 0.6 +2.5
Brad Ziegler↔ ARI 36 FA-elig 33 0.8 2.6 -0.1
Robbie Ross Jr. 27 arb 54 0.8 1.2 +1.2
Christian Vázquez 25 pre-arb 57 0.7 0.5 +1.7
Andrew Benintendi 21 – 34 0.6 0.2 +1.7
Koji Uehara 41 FA-elig 50 0.6 9.0 -7.1
Drew Pomeranz↔ SDP 27 arb 14 0.5 0.6 +1.2
Matt Barnes 26 pre-arb 62 0.5 0.5 +1.0
Clay Buchholz 31 FA-elig 37 0.5 13.0 -11.5
Travis Shaw 26 pre-arb 145 0.5 0.5 +0.9
Joe Kelly 28 arb 20 0.4 2.6 -1.2
Blake Swihart 24 pre-arb 19 0.4 0.5 +0.8
Heath Hembree 27 pre-arb 38 0.4 0.4 +0.8
Josh Rutledge 27 arb 28 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Tommy Layne↔ NYY 31 arb 34 0.3 0.3 +0.5
Junichi Tazawa 30 FA-elig 53 0.2 3.4 -2.9
Sean O'Sullivan 28 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.3 +0.2
Robby Scott 26 – 7 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Carson Smith 26 pre-arb 3 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Rusney Castillo 28 pre-arb 9 -0.0 11.3 -11.3
Mike Miller 26 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
William Cuevas 25 – 3 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Bryce Brentz 27 pre-arb 25 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Michael Martinez↔ CLE 33 – 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Marco Hernández 23 – 40 -0.1 0.3 -0.7
Pat Light↔ MIN 25 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Yoán Moncada 21 – 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Fernando Abad↔ MIN 30 FA-elig 18 -0.1 0.4 -0.9
Deven Marrero 25 pre-arb 13 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Ryan LaMarre 27 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Roenis Elías 27 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.6 -1.2
Pablo Sandoval 29 FA-elig 3 -0.2 17.6 -18.3
Henry Owens 23 pre-arb 5 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Bryan Holaday↔ TEX 28 arb 14 -0.3 0.2 -1.0
Noé Ramirez 26 pre-arb 14 -0.3 0.5 -1.6
Aaron Hill↔ MIL 34 FA-elig 47 -0.6 4.5 -6.6
Ryan Hanigan 35 FA-elig 35 -1.1 3.7 -7.2

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.