Rosternomics
𝕏

Red Sox BOS

Switch team:

President of baseball ops: Chaim Bloom (since 2020) · GM: Brian O'Halloran (since 2020)

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

‹ Prev Next ›
-7.8
WAB — wins above budget
-9.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-88M
surplus $M (value/$)
28.6
roster fWAR
$191.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Xander Bogaerts 29 FA-elig 150 6.0 20.0 +1.9
Rafael Devers 25 arb 141 5.0 11.2 +7.2
Trevor Story 29 FA-elig 94 2.5 20.0 -10.7
Rich Hill 42 FA-elig 26 1.8 5.0 +1.5
John Schreiber 28 pre-arb 64 1.8 0.6 +5.8
Christian Vázquez↔ HOU 31 FA-elig 84 1.7 4.9 +1.4
Michael Wacha 30 FA-elig 23 1.5 7.0 -1.4
Nick Pivetta 29 arb 33 1.5 2.6 +2.9
J.D. Martinez 34 FA-elig 139 1.4 19.4 -14.1
Garrett Whitlock 26 pre-arb 31 1.4 0.7 +4.4
Brayan Bello 23 – 13 1.3 0.3 +4.3
Reese McGuire↔ CHW 27 pre-arb 36 1.3 0.2 +4.4
Alex Verdugo 26 arb 152 1.1 3.5 +0.3
Rob Refsnyder 31 FA-elig 57 1.0 0.1 +3.7
Nathan Eovaldi 32 FA-elig 20 1.0 17.0 -13.2
Tanner Houck 26 pre-arb 32 0.7 0.7 +1.9
Ryan Brasier 34 FA-elig 68 0.5 1.4 +0.5
Kutter Crawford 26 pre-arb 21 0.5 0.5 +1.4
Triston Casas 22 – 27 0.4 0.1 +1.4
Matt Strahm 30 FA-elig 50 0.3 3.0 -1.8
Christian Arroyo 27 arb 87 0.3 1.2 -0.1
Austin Davis↔ MIN 29 – 50 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Enrique Hernández 30 FA-elig 93 0.3 8.0 -7.0
Chris Sale 33 FA-elig 2 0.2 30.0 -29.4
Jaylin Davis 27 pre-arb 12 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Tommy Pham↔ CIN 34 FA-elig 53 0.1 2.2 -1.7
Matt Barnes 32 FA-elig 44 0.1 8.1 -7.7
Yu Chang↔ CLE 26 – 11 0.1 – –
Phillips Valdez 30 – 13 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Connor Wong 26 pre-arb 27 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Hirokazu Sawamura 34 pre-arb 49 0.0 1.2 -1.1
Zack Kelly 27 – 13 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Josh Winckowski 24 – 15 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Eric Hosmer↔ SDP 32 FA-elig 14 -0.0 2.8 -2.9
Abraham Almonte 33 arb 15 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Michael Feliz 29 FA-elig 1 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Jeurys Familia↔ PHI 32 FA-elig 10 -0.1 1.2 -1.7
Jarren Duran 25 pre-arb 58 -0.1 0.3 -0.8
Kaleb Ort 30 pre-arb 25 -0.1 0.3 -0.8
Frank German 24 – 5 -0.2 0.1 -0.6
Bobby Dalbec 27 pre-arb 117 -0.2 0.6 -1.3
Eduard Bazardo 26 pre-arb 12 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Connor Seabold 26 pre-arb 5 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Jonathan Araúz↔ BAL 23 – 6 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Yolmer Sánchez↔ NYM 30 – 14 -0.3 0.1 -1.3
Franchy Cordero 27 arb 84 -0.3 0.6 -1.9
Jeter Downs 23 – 14 -0.3 0.1 -1.4
Tyler Danish 27 pre-arb 32 -0.4 0.6 -2.0
Kevin Plawecki↔ TEX 31 FA-elig 61 -0.4 2.1 -3.5
Jackie Bradley Jr.↔ TOR 32 FA-elig 92 -0.4 6.6 -8.1
Darwinzon Hernández 25 pre-arb 7 -0.5 0.1 -1.8
Jake Diekman↔ CHW 35 FA-elig 44 -0.5 2.2 -4.0
Hansel Robles 31 FA-elig 26 -0.6 2.2 -4.6
Travis Shaw 32 FA-elig 7 -0.6 0.7 -3.1

54 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 53 of them (98%). 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.