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President of baseball ops: Dave Dombrowski (since 2016)

2018 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+19.7
WAB — wins above budget
+11.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
108–54 (0.667)
record · World Series champions
-38M
surplus $M (value/$)
51.3
roster fWAR
$212.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Mookie Betts 25 arb 136 10.2 10.5 +24.2
Chris Sale 29 FA-elig 27 6.2 12.5 +8.5
J.D. Martinez 30 FA-elig 150 5.9 23.8 -3.8
Xander Bogaerts 25 arb 136 4.6 7.0 +8.7
Andrew Benintendi 23 pre-arb 148 4.3 0.6 +14.2
Jackie Bradley Jr. 28 arb 144 2.9 6.1 +3.9
Rick Porcello 29 FA-elig 33 2.6 21.1 -12.1
David Price 32 FA-elig 30 2.4 30.0 -21.7
Eduardo Rodriguez 25 arb 27 2.1 2.4 +4.7
Brock Holt 30 FA-elig 109 1.6 2.2 +3.2
Nathan Eovaldi↔ TBR 28 FA-elig 12 1.5 1.0 +4.1
Craig Kimbrel 30 FA-elig 63 1.3 13.0 -8.4
Steve Pearce↔ TOR 35 FA-elig 50 1.3 4.1 +0.3
Matt Barnes 28 arb 62 1.2 0.6 +3.6
Rafael Devers 21 pre-arb 121 0.9 0.6 +2.6
Mitch Moreland 32 FA-elig 124 0.9 6.5 -3.4
Ryan Brasier 30 pre-arb 34 0.7 0.2 +2.0
Joe Kelly 30 FA-elig 73 0.6 3.8 -1.7
Sandy León 29 FA-elig 89 0.5 1.9 -0.3
Hector Velázquez 29 pre-arb 47 0.4 0.5 +0.9
Christian Vázquez 27 arb 80 0.4 1.4 -0.1
Brian Johnson 27 arb 38 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Marcus Walden 29 pre-arb 8 0.2 0.5 +0.3
Bobby Poyner 25 pre-arb 20 0.2 0.5 +0.1
Steven Wright 33 arb 20 0.2 1.1 -0.5
Ian Kinsler↔ ANA 36 FA-elig 37 0.1 3.2 -2.7
Carson Smith 28 arb 18 0.1 0.8 -0.5
Heath Hembree 29 arb 67 0.1 0.6 -0.3
Tzu-Wei Lin 24 pre-arb 37 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Hanley Ramirez 34 FA-elig 44 0.0 22.8 -22.6
Tony Renda 27 – 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Brandon Workman 29 arb 43 -0.0 0.8 -0.9
Jalen Beeks↔ TBR 24 – 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Dan Butler 31 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Blake Swihart 26 arb 82 -0.1 0.6 -0.9
Sam Travis 24 pre-arb 19 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Justin Haley 27 – 4 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Dustin Pedroia 34 FA-elig 3 -0.2 16.0 -16.6
William Cuevas 27 – 9 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Brandon Phillips 37 FA-elig 9 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Tyler Thornburg 29 FA-elig 25 -0.3 2.0 -3.2
Drew Pomeranz 29 FA-elig 26 -0.4 8.5 -9.7
Robby Scott 28 pre-arb 9 -0.4 0.1 -1.5
Eduardo Núñez 31 FA-elig 127 -0.5 4.0 -5.7

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.