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GM: Sandy Alderson (since 1983)

1990 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+18.6
WAB — wins above budget
+14.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
103–59 (0.636)
record · won pennant
+2M
surplus $M (value/$)
50.9
roster fWAR
$20.5M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Rickey Henderson 31 FA-elig 136 10.2 2.4 +2.2
Mark McGwire 26 arb 156 5.7 1.5 +1.0
Jose Canseco 25 arb 131 5.2 2.0 +0.3
Dave Stewart 33 FA-elig 36 4.9 0.9 +1.2
Dave Henderson 31 FA-elig 127 4.4 0.8 +1.1
Walt Weiss 26 arb 138 3.6 0.2 +1.4
Dennis Eckersley 35 FA-elig 63 3.2 0.8 +0.6
Bob Welch 33 FA-elig 35 1.8 1.1 -0.3
Willie Randolph↔ LAD 35 FA-elig 93 1.8 0.7 +0.1
Felix Jose↔ STL 25 pre-arb 101 1.7 0.1 +0.7
Scott Sanderson 33 FA-elig 34 1.4 0.8 -0.1
Mike Moore 30 FA-elig 33 1.3 1.2 -0.6
Jamie Quirk 35 FA-elig 56 0.8 0.1 +0.2
Terry Steinbach 28 arb 114 0.8 0.8 -0.4
Rick Honeycutt 36 FA-elig 66 0.8 0.8 -0.4
Mike Gallego 29 arb 140 0.7 0.5 -0.2
Carney Lansford 33 FA-elig 134 0.6 1.3 -1.0
Willie McGee↔ STL 31 FA-elig 29 0.6 0.3 -0.0
Gene Nelson 29 FA-elig 51 0.6 0.7 -0.4
Ron Hassey 37 FA-elig 94 0.5 0.7 -0.5
Darren Lewis 22 pre-arb 25 0.4 0.1 +0.1
Steve Chitren 23 – 8 0.4 – –
Harold Baines↔ TEX 31 FA-elig 32 0.4 0.3 -0.1
Stan Javier↔ LAD 26 FA-elig 19 0.4 0.0 +0.1
Mike Norris 35 FA-elig 14 0.3 0.1 +0.0
Dann Howitt 26 pre-arb 14 0.3 0.1 +0.0
Joe Klink 28 arb 40 0.2 0.1 -0.0
Lance Blankenship 26 pre-arb 86 0.1 0.1 -0.1
Joe Bitker↔ TEX 26 – 1 0.0 – –
Dave Otto 25 arb 2 -0.0 0.1 -0.1
Troy Afenir 26 arb 14 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
Mike Bordick 24 – 25 -0.1 – –
Todd Burns 26 pre-arb 43 -0.1 0.2 -0.3
Reggie Harris 21 pre-arb 16 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
Scott Hemond 24 pre-arb 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Curt Young 30 FA-elig 28 -0.3 0.7 -0.8
Ozzie Canseco 25 pre-arb 9 -0.3 0.1 -0.2
Ken Phelps↔ CLE 35 FA-elig 32 -0.3 0.5 -0.6
Steve Howard 26 pre-arb 21 -0.5 0.1 -0.3
Doug Jennings 25 pre-arb 64 -0.5 0.1 -0.3

40 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 37 of them (92%). 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 OAK
Rickey Henderson198926.8
Mark Ellis200122.1
Dennis Eckersley198719.3
Carney Lansford198216.7
Josh Donaldson200813.8
Jed Lowrie201313.0
Brett Anderson200711.5
Sean Manaea201511.2
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Rickey Henderson198426.6
Carlos González200824.7
Andre Ethier200524.4
Gio Gonzalez201120.8
Josh Donaldson201420.4
Mark McGwire199719.7
Aaron Harang200319.3
Jeremy Bonderman200215.8
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.