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President of baseball ops: Craig Breslow (since 2024)

2026 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-13.0 pace
WAB — wins above budget (162-game pace)
+0.4 pace
TAB — roster Talent above budget (162-game pace)
27–35 (0.435)
record
+154M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.2
roster fWAR
$165.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Willson Contreras 34 FA-elig 60 5.8 18.0 +33.3
Ceddanne Rafaela 25 pre-arb 59 5.0 2.2 +42.2
Payton Tolle 23 pre-arb 8 4.2 0.7 +36.8
Ranger Suarez 30 FA-elig 11 3.9 7.6 +27.2
Wilyer Abreu 27 pre-arb 61 3.9 0.8 +34.0
Jarren Duran 29 arb 57 2.1 7.7 +10.9
Sonny Gray 36 FA-elig 11 2.0 11.0 +7.2
Aroldis Chapman 38 FA-elig 20 2.0 13.0 +4.9
Isiah Kiner-Falefa 31 FA-elig 37 1.9 6.0 +10.7
Garrett Whitlock 30 arb 20 1.4 7.5 +5.3
Carlos Narváez 27 pre-arb 38 1.4 0.8 +11.4
Connelly Early 24 pre-arb 12 1.1 0.8 +9.2
Garrett Crochet 27 arb 6 0.8 24.8 -17.5
Roman Anthony 22 pre-arb 30 0.8 2.6 +4.3
Connor Wong 30 arb 26 0.8 1.4 +5.3
Nick Sogard 28 pre-arb 12 0.7 0.6 +5.2
Tyler Samaniego 27 – 20 0.5 0.2 +4.0
Mickey Gasper 30 pre-arb 20 0.4 0.6 +3.3
Zack Kelly 31 pre-arb 17 0.4 0.2 +3.0
Tyron Guerrero 35 – 6 0.2 – –
Eduardo Rivera 23 – 1 0.2 0.0 +1.9
Caleb Durbin 26 pre-arb 56 0.1 0.8 +0.4
Jake Bennett 25 – 2 0.1 0.0 +1.0
Jovani Morán 29 pre-arb 21 0.1 0.8 +0.1
Justin Slaten 28 pre-arb 12 0.1 0.8 -0.0
Alec Gamboa 29 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.7
Jack Anderson 26 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.6
Danny Coulombe 36 FA-elig 17 0.0 1.5 -1.2
Tommy Kahnle 36 – 1 -0.0 – –
Anthony Seigler 27 pre-arb 1 -0.1 0.8 -1.8
Brayan Bello 27 arb 12 -0.2 6.2 -7.5
Masataka Yoshida 32 arb 43 -0.2 18.6 -20.3
Tyler Uberstine 27 – 1 -0.2 0.0 -1.9
Ryan Watson 28 – 22 -0.3 0.8 -3.2
Greg Weissert 31 pre-arb 26 -0.3 0.8 -3.3
Johan Oviedo 28 arb 1 -0.3 1.6 -4.4
Marcelo Mayer 23 pre-arb 56 -0.5 0.8 -5.0
Andruw Monasterio 29 pre-arb 33 -0.7 0.8 -7.4
Trevor Story 33 FA-elig 41 -1.1 25.0 -35.2

39 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (95%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR), annualized to full-season pace. 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 Abreu20227.6
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.