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GM: Billy Beane (since 1998)

2007 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-2.8
WAB — wins above budget
+2.9
TAB — roster Talent above budget
76–86 (0.469)
record
-5M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.2
roster fWAR
$63.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Joe Blanton 26 arb 34 5.2 0.4 +10.7
Dan Haren 26 arb 34 4.6 2.2 +7.6
Mark Ellis 30 arb 150 4.4 3.5 +5.8
Nick Swisher 26 arb 150 4.0 0.4 +8.0
Jack Cust 28 – 124 2.8 – –
Travis Buck 23 pre-arb 82 2.2 0.4 +4.2
Chad Gaudin 24 arb 34 1.8 0.4 +3.4
Huston Street 23 pre-arb 48 1.4 0.4 +2.6
Kurt Suzuki 23 – 68 1.2 – –
Daric Barton 21 – 18 1.2 – –
Alan Embree 37 FA-elig 68 1.1 2.4 -0.0
Dan Johnson 27 pre-arb 117 1.0 0.4 +1.8
Shannon Stewart 33 FA-elig 146 1.0 1.0 +1.1
Dallas Braden 23 – 20 0.9 – –
Eric Chavez 29 FA-elig 90 0.9 9.5 -7.7
Andrew Brown 26 – 33 0.7 – –
Jack Hannahan 27 – 41 0.7 – –
Lenny DiNardo 27 arb 35 0.5 0.4 +0.7
Rob Bowen↔ CHC 26 arb 21 0.5 0.1 +0.9
Joe Kennedy↔ ARI 28 FA-elig 27 0.5 1.9 -0.9
Milton Bradley↔ SDP 29 FA-elig 19 0.4 1.2 -0.4
Marco Scutaro 31 arb 104 0.4 1.6 -0.8
Santiago Casilla 26 – 46 0.4 – –
Rich Harden 25 arb 7 0.4 2.2 -1.5
Esteban Loaiza↔ LAD 35 FA-elig 2 0.2 2.1 -1.6
Kiko Calero 32 arb 46 0.2 1.6 -1.2
Donnie Murphy 24 – 42 0.2 – –
Ruddy Lugo↔ TBR 27 pre-arb 27 0.1 0.3 +0.0
Adam Melhuse↔ TEX 35 FA-elig 12 0.1 0.3 -0.1
Dee Brown 29 – 8 0.1 – –
Chris Snelling↔ WSN 25 arb 6 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Dan Meyer 25 – 6 0.0 – –
Kevin Melillo 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Erasmo Ramirez↔ MIA 31 – 3 0.0 – –
Jeff DaVanon↔ ARI 33 FA-elig 26 0.0 0.8 -0.8
Bobby Crosby 27 arb 93 -0.0 2.5 -2.6
Jay Witasick↔ TBR 34 FA-elig 16 -0.0 0.7 -0.7
Ron Flores 27 – 17 -0.0 – –
Ryan Langerhans↔ ATL 27 arb 2 -0.0 0.0 -0.0
Connor Robertson 25 – 3 -0.0 – –
Jerry Blevins 23 – 6 -0.0 – –
J.J. Furmaniak 27 – 16 -0.0 – –
Shane Komine 26 – 2 -0.1 – –
Mike Piazza 38 FA-elig 83 -0.3 8.5 -9.0
Justin Duchscherer 29 FA-elig 17 -0.3 1.2 -1.7
Jay Marshall 24 pre-arb 51 -0.3 0.4 -1.0
Danny Putnam 24 – 11 -0.3 – –
Bobby Kielty↔ BOS 30 FA-elig 13 -0.3 0.8 -1.5
Hiram Bocachica↔ SDP 31 – 6 -0.3 – –
Colby Lewis 27 – 26 -0.3 – –
Todd Walker 34 FA-elig 18 -0.4 0.5 -1.2
Kevin Thompson↔ NYY 27 – 9 -0.4 – –
Jason Kendall↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 80 -0.7 7.5 -8.9
Mark Kotsay 31 FA-elig 56 -1.0 8.0 -10.0

54 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 33 of them (61%). 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.