Rosternomics
𝕏

Red Sox BOS

Switch team:

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

2023 roster — every player, value & surplus

‹ Prev Next ›
-6.0
WAB — wins above budget
-8.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
78–84 (0.481)
record
-68M
surplus $M (value/$)
27.9
roster fWAR
$178.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Rafael Devers 26 FA-elig 153 3.5 17.5 -3.6
Jarren Duran 26 pre-arb 102 2.5 0.6 +9.2
Kutter Crawford 27 pre-arb 32 2.4 0.7 +8.9
Chris Sale 34 FA-elig 20 2.1 27.5 -19.2
Nick Pivetta 30 FA-elig 38 1.9 5.3 +2.0
Triston Casas 23 pre-arb 132 1.8 0.7 +6.3
Brayan Bello 24 pre-arb 28 1.6 0.7 +5.5
Adam Duvall 34 FA-elig 92 1.6 7.0 -0.8
Alex Verdugo 27 FA-elig 142 1.6 6.3 -0.1
Chris Martin 37 FA-elig 55 1.5 8.0 -2.1
Tanner Houck 27 arb 21 1.2 0.7 +4.0
Justin Turner 38 FA-elig 146 1.2 8.3 -3.6
Kenley Jansen 35 FA-elig 51 1.1 16.0 -11.7
James Paxton 34 FA-elig 19 1.0 4.0 +0.1
Garrett Whitlock 27 pre-arb 22 0.8 1.2 +2.0
Josh Winckowski 25 pre-arb 60 0.8 0.7 +2.4
Masataka Yoshida 29 pre-arb 140 0.8 15.6 -12.6
Brennan Bernardino 31 pre-arb 55 0.7 0.6 +2.3
Wilyer Abreu 24 – 28 0.6 0.2 +2.3
Pablo Reyes 29 pre-arb 64 0.5 0.5 +1.6
Reese McGuire 28 arb 72 0.5 1.2 +0.9
Rob Refsnyder 32 FA-elig 89 0.4 1.2 +0.5
Chris Murphy 25 – 20 0.4 0.3 +1.2
Enmanuel Valdez 24 – 49 0.3 0.3 +1.1
Trevor Story 30 FA-elig 43 0.3 20.0 -18.6
Connor Wong 27 pre-arb 126 0.3 0.7 +0.3
Raimel Tapia↔ MIL 29 FA-elig 39 0.3 1.2 -0.2
Luis Urías↔ MIL 26 arb 32 0.2 2.9 -2.1
Ryan Sherriff 33 – 5 0.1 0.0 +0.5
Mauricio Llovera↔ SFG 27 pre-arb 25 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Ceddanne Rafaela 22 – 28 0.1 0.1 +0.3
John Schreiber 29 arb 46 0.1 0.8 -0.4
Joe Jacques 28 – 23 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Ryan Brasier↔ LAD 35 FA-elig 20 0.0 0.7 -0.5
Yu Chang 27 arb 39 0.0 0.8 -0.7
Nick Robertson↔ LAD 24 – 9 0.0 0.1 +0.1
Brandon Walter 26 – 9 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Zack Littell↔ TBR 27 – 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Jake Faria 29 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Joely Rodríguez 31 FA-elig 11 -0.0 1.5 -1.6
Zack Kelly 28 pre-arb 8 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Dinelson Lamet↔ COL 30 FA-elig 1 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Caleb Hamilton 28 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Zack Weiss↔ ANA 31 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Tayler Scott↔ LAD 31 – 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Richard Bleier 36 FA-elig 27 -0.1 3.5 -4.0
Jorge Alfaro↔ COL 30 – 8 -0.1 0.0 -0.6
Matt Dermody 32 pre-arb 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Justin Garza 29 pre-arb 17 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Kaleb Ort 31 pre-arb 21 -0.2 0.7 -1.5
Bobby Dalbec 28 pre-arb 21 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
David Hamilton 25 – 15 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Christian Arroyo 28 FA-elig 66 -0.3 2.0 -3.2
Kyle Barraclough 33 arb 3 -0.4 0.0 -1.8
Corey Kluber 37 FA-elig 15 -0.8 10.0 -13.2
Enrique Hernández↔ LAD 31 FA-elig 86 -1.3 6.1 -11.3

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.