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President of baseball ops: Dave Dombrowski (since 2016)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-4.7
WAB — wins above budget
+3.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
84–78 (0.519)
record
-71M
surplus $M (value/$)
44.3
roster fWAR
$218.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Rafael Devers 22 pre-arb 156 6.5 0.6 +20.6
Xander Bogaerts 26 FA-elig 155 6.0 12.0 +7.6
Mookie Betts 26 arb 150 5.8 20.0 -1.0
J.D. Martinez 31 FA-elig 146 4.0 23.8 -10.8
Chris Sale 30 FA-elig 25 3.6 15.0 -3.2
Eduardo Rodriguez 26 arb 34 3.6 4.3 +7.5
Christian Vázquez 28 arb 138 3.5 2.9 +8.5
David Price 33 FA-elig 22 2.4 31.0 -23.2
Brandon Workman 30 FA-elig 73 2.1 1.1 +5.8
Jackie Bradley Jr. 29 FA-elig 147 2.0 8.6 -2.0
Rick Porcello 30 FA-elig 32 1.7 21.1 -15.5
Andrew Benintendi 24 arb 138 1.4 0.7 +3.7
Matt Barnes 29 arb 70 1.3 1.6 +2.6
Brock Holt 31 FA-elig 87 1.2 3.6 +0.5
Marcus Walden 30 pre-arb 70 1.0 0.5 +2.6
Michael Chavis 23 – 95 0.9 0.5 +2.5
Mitch Moreland 33 FA-elig 91 0.9 6.5 -3.6
Josh Taylor 26 – 52 0.9 0.5 +2.4
Darwinzon Hernández 22 – 29 0.6 0.3 +1.6
Ryan Weber 28 pre-arb 18 0.3 0.3 +0.7
Ryan Brasier 31 FA-elig 62 0.3 0.6 +0.4
Travis Lakins 25 – 16 0.3 0.2 +0.8
Hector Velázquez 30 pre-arb 34 0.2 0.6 +0.2
Heath Hembree 30 FA-elig 45 0.1 1.3 -1.1
Bobby Poyner 26 pre-arb 13 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Blake Swihart↔ ARI 27 arb 12 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Colten Brewer 26 pre-arb 58 -0.0 0.6 -0.7
Brian Johnson 28 arb 22 -0.0 0.6 -0.7
Andrew Cashner↔ BAL 32 FA-elig 25 -0.1 5.7 -5.8
Tyler Thornburg 30 FA-elig 16 -0.1 1.8 -1.9
Tzu-Wei Lin 25 pre-arb 13 -0.1 0.3 -0.5
Erasmo Ramírez 29 arb 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Jhoulys Chacín↔ MIL 31 FA-elig 6 -0.2 1.6 -2.2
Juan Centeno 29 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Chris Owings↔ KCR 27 FA-elig 26 -0.2 1.2 -1.8
Trevor Kelley 26 – 10 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Sandy León 30 FA-elig 65 -0.2 2.5 -3.2
Mike Shawaryn 24 – 14 -0.2 – –
Steven Wright 34 FA-elig 6 -0.3 1.4 -2.2
Nathan Eovaldi 29 FA-elig 23 -0.3 17.0 -17.9
Dustin Pedroia 35 FA-elig 6 -0.4 15.0 -16.2
Gorkys Hernández 31 arb 20 -0.4 0.2 -1.4
Josh A. Smith 31 – 18 -0.4 – –
Sam Travis 25 pre-arb 59 -0.4 0.6 -2.0
Marco Hernández 26 arb 61 -0.6 0.6 -2.4
Eduardo Núñez 32 FA-elig 60 -0.8 5.0 -7.7
Steve Pearce 36 FA-elig 29 -0.9 6.2 -9.1

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 45 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.