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President of baseball ops: Craig Breslow (since 2024)

2025 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+4.8
WAB — wins above budget
+7.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
89–73 (0.549)
record · made playoffs
-11M
surplus $M (value/$)
43.7
roster fWAR
$178.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Garrett Crochet 26 arb 32 5.8 3.8 +18.3
Jarren Duran 28 pre-arb 157 3.9 3.9 +11.1
Ceddanne Rafaela 24 pre-arb 156 3.8 1.2 +13.3
Alex Bregman 31 FA-elig 114 3.5 25.0 -11.5
Trevor Story 32 FA-elig 157 3.0 22.5 -10.9
Roman Anthony 21 – 71 2.7 0.5 +10.0
Carlos Narváez 26 pre-arb 118 2.7 0.8 +9.4
Aroldis Chapman 37 FA-elig 67 2.6 10.8 -0.6
Wilyer Abreu 26 pre-arb 115 2.4 0.8 +8.5
Garrett Whitlock 29 arb 62 2.2 5.5 +3.1
Rafael Devers↔ SFG 28 – 73 2.0 6.9 +0.9
Lucas Giolito 30 FA-elig 26 2.0 19.0 -11.5
Brayan Bello 26 pre-arb 29 1.9 2.7 +4.7
Romy Gonzalez 28 pre-arb 96 1.5 0.8 +4.8
Connelly Early 23 – 4 1.1 0.1 +4.1
Justin Wilson 37 FA-elig 61 1.0 3.0 +0.9
Rob Refsnyder 34 FA-elig 70 1.0 2.1 +1.7
Hunter Dobbins 25 – 13 1.0 0.6 +3.0
Sean Newcomb↔ OAK 32 – 12 0.7 0.2 +2.5
Greg Weissert 30 pre-arb 72 0.7 0.8 +1.8
Brennan Bernardino 33 pre-arb 55 0.6 0.7 +1.6
Marcelo Mayer 22 – 44 0.4 0.5 +1.2
Nathaniel Lowe↔ WSN 29 arb 34 0.4 2.3 -0.6
Justin Slaten 27 pre-arb 36 0.4 0.8 +0.7
Zack Kelly 30 pre-arb 28 0.4 0.5 +0.9
Kyle Harrison↔ SFG 23 pre-arb 3 0.4 0.0 +1.3
Nate Eaton 28 pre-arb 41 0.3 0.3 +1.0
Josh Winckowski 27 pre-arb 6 0.2 0.7 -0.1
David Hamilton 27 pre-arb 91 0.1 0.7 -0.2
José De León 32 – 1 0.1 – –
Nick Burdi 32 arb 4 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Jovani Morán 28 pre-arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Jhostynxon Garcia 22 – 5 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Luis Guerrero 24 pre-arb 13 -0.0 0.5 -0.6
Isaiah Campbell 27 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Liam Hendriks 36 FA-elig 14 -0.0 6.0 -6.1
Ali Sánchez↔ TOR 28 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Cooper Criswell 28 pre-arb 7 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
Michael Fulmer↔ CHC 32 – 1 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Steven Matz↔ STL 34 FA-elig 21 -0.1 3.4 -3.6
Dustin May↔ LAD 27 arb 6 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Masataka Yoshida 31 pre-arb 55 -0.1 18.6 -18.9
Robert Stock 35 pre-arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Jorge Alcala↔ MIN 29 – 19 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Nick Sogard 27 pre-arb 30 -0.1 0.3 -0.8
Kristian Campbell 23 – 67 -0.2 1.2 -1.9
Payton Tolle 22 – 7 -0.2 0.1 -0.9
Chris Murphy 27 pre-arb 23 -0.2 0.7 -1.4
Blake Sabol 27 – 8 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Richard Fitts 25 pre-arb 11 -0.3 0.6 -1.8
Tanner Houck 29 arb 9 -0.3 4.0 -5.3
Jordan Hicks↔ SFG 28 FA-elig 21 -0.4 4.5 -6.0
Triston Casas 25 pre-arb 29 -0.6 0.8 -3.1
Walker Buehler↔ PHI 30 – 23 -0.7 17.3 -19.8
Abraham Toro 28 arb 77 -0.7 0.6 -3.2
Connor Wong 29 pre-arb 63 -0.7 0.8 -3.5

56 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 55 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.