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President of baseball ops: Craig Breslow (since 2024)

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+0.2
WAB — wins above budget
+3.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
81–81 (0.500)
record
+6M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.7
roster fWAR
$147.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jarren Duran 27 arb 160 6.8 0.8 +27.7
Rafael Devers 27 FA-elig 138 4.2 29.5 -12.1
Tanner Houck 28 arb 30 3.9 0.8 +15.4
Wilyer Abreu 25 pre-arb 132 3.1 0.7 +12.0
Tyler O'Neill 29 FA-elig 113 2.5 5.8 +4.8
Nick Pivetta 31 FA-elig 27 2.0 7.5 +0.9
Brayan Bello 25 pre-arb 30 2.0 1.2 +7.1
Kutter Crawford 28 arb 33 1.8 0.8 +6.9
David Hamilton 26 pre-arb 98 1.6 0.7 +6.1
Justin Slaten 26 pre-arb 44 1.5 0.7 +5.4
Kenley Jansen 36 FA-elig 54 1.4 16.0 -10.1
Rob Refsnyder 33 FA-elig 93 1.3 1.9 +3.8
Connor Wong 28 arb 126 1.1 0.8 +3.9
Cooper Criswell 27 arb 26 1.1 1.0 +3.6
Ceddanne Rafaela 23 pre-arb 152 1.0 1.2 +3.0
Chris Martin 38 FA-elig 45 0.9 9.5 -5.8
Masataka Yoshida 30 pre-arb 108 0.9 18.6 -15.0
Trevor Story 31 FA-elig 26 0.7 22.5 -19.7
Triston Casas 24 pre-arb 63 0.6 0.8 +1.9
Greg Weissert 29 pre-arb 62 0.5 0.7 +1.5
Richard Fitts 24 – 4 0.5 0.1 +1.8
Garrett Whitlock 28 arb 4 0.4 3.5 -1.8
Dominic Smith↔ CIN 29 FA-elig 84 0.3 1.3 +0.1
Nick Sogard 26 – 31 0.3 0.2 +1.1
Luis Guerrero 23 – 9 0.3 0.1 +1.2
James Paxton↔ LAD 35 FA-elig 3 0.3 1.0 +0.3
Cam Booser 32 pre-arb 43 0.3 0.7 +0.4
Romy Gonzalez 27 arb 89 0.2 0.7 +0.3
Josh Winckowski 26 pre-arb 40 0.2 0.8 +0.2
Brennan Bernardino 32 pre-arb 57 0.2 0.7 +0.1
Reese McGuire 29 FA-elig 53 0.2 1.5 -0.8
Quinn Priester↔ PIT 23 pre-arb 1 0.1 0.1 +0.4
Naoyuki Uwasawa 30 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.7 -0.3
Chase Shugart 27 – 6 0.1 0.1 +0.3
Joe Jacques↔ ARI 29 pre-arb 1 0.0 0.4 -0.2
Tyler Heineman↔ TOR 33 arb 2 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Danny Jansen↔ TOR 29 FA-elig 31 0.0 1.7 -1.7
Yohan Ramírez↔ BAL 29 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Zach Penrod 27 – 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Trey Wingenter↔ CHC 30 – 2 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Rich Hill 44 – 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Joely Rodríguez 32 FA-elig 14 -0.1 2.0 -2.5
Luis García↔ ANA 37 FA-elig 15 -0.1 1.1 -1.5
Brad Keller↔ CHW 28 – 11 -0.1 0.8 -1.3
Jamie Westbrook 29 pre-arb 21 -0.1 0.7 -1.3
Zack Short↔ ATL 29 arb 2 -0.2 0.0 -0.7
Lucas Sims↔ CIN 30 FA-elig 15 -0.2 0.7 -1.7
Zack Kelly 29 pre-arb 49 -0.3 0.7 -1.8
Mickey Gasper 28 – 13 -0.3 0.1 -1.4
Chase Anderson↔ TEX 36 FA-elig 27 -0.4 1.2 -2.8
Isaiah Campbell 26 pre-arb 8 -0.4 0.7 -2.4
Bailey Horn 26 – 18 -0.5 0.2 -2.2
Garrett Cooper↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 24 -0.5 1.2 -3.4
Enmanuel Valdez 25 pre-arb 76 -0.6 0.7 -3.2
Vaughn Grissom 23 pre-arb 31 -0.7 0.7 -3.5
Bobby Dalbec 29 pre-arb 37 -0.7 0.4 -3.2
Pablo Reyes↔ NYM 30 – 21 -0.7 0.1 -3.1

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.