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Athletics OAK

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GM: Billy Beane (since 1998)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-3.4
WAB — wins above budget
-4.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
74–88 (0.457)
record
-5M
surplus $M (value/$)
25.2
roster fWAR
$66.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Brandon McCarthy 27 FA-elig 25 4.5 1.0 +10.1
Gio Gonzalez 25 arb 32 3.3 0.4 +7.6
Josh Willingham 32 FA-elig 136 2.1 6.0 -1.0
Trevor Cahill 23 pre-arb 34 2.0 0.4 +4.4
Coco Crisp 31 FA-elig 136 1.9 5.8 -1.0
Jemile Weeks 24 – 97 1.8 0.3 +4.2
David DeJesus 31 FA-elig 131 1.7 6.0 -1.8
Scott Sizemore↔ DET 26 – 93 1.6 0.4 +3.6
Guillermo Moscoso 27 pre-arb 23 1.5 0.4 +3.2
Cliff Pennington 27 arb 148 1.3 0.4 +2.8
Andrew Bailey 27 pre-arb 42 1.0 0.5 +2.0
Brett Anderson 23 pre-arb 13 1.0 1.2 +1.2
Kurt Suzuki 27 arb 134 0.9 3.4 -1.2
Tyson Ross 24 pre-arb 9 0.8 0.4 +1.7
Brad Ziegler↔ ARI 31 arb 43 0.7 0.8 +0.9
Josh Outman 26 pre-arb 13 0.7 0.4 +1.2
Grant Balfour 33 FA-elig 62 0.5 3.8 -2.5
Rich Harden 29 FA-elig 15 0.4 1.5 -0.4
Craig Breslow 30 FA-elig 67 0.4 1.4 -0.4
Dallas Braden 27 arb 3 0.4 3.4 -2.4
Joey Devine 27 FA-elig 26 0.4 0.6 +0.3
Hideki Matsui 37 FA-elig 141 0.2 4.2 -3.7
Brian Fuentes 35 FA-elig 67 0.2 5.0 -4.5
Jerry Blevins 27 arb 26 0.2 0.4 +0.0
Fautino De Los Santos 25 – 34 0.2 – –
Kevin Kouzmanoff↔ COL 29 arb 46 0.2 3.0 -2.6
Graham Godfrey 26 pre-arb 5 0.2 0.4 -0.0
David Purcey↔ DET 29 arb 9 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Bobby Cramer 31 pre-arb 5 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Ryan Sweeney 26 arb 108 0.0 1.4 -1.3
Jai Miller 26 – 7 0.0 – –
Eric Sogard 25 pre-arb 27 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Andrew Carignan 24 – 6 0.0 0.4 -0.4
Anthony Recker 27 – 5 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Jordan Norberto 24 – 6 -0.0 – –
Neil Wagner 27 – 6 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Bruce Billings↔ COL 25 – 3 -0.1 – –
Trystan Magnuson 26 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
Conor Jackson↔ BOS 29 FA-elig 102 -0.1 2.9 -3.2
Mark Ellis↔ COL 34 FA-elig 62 -0.2 2.8 -3.2
Brandon Allen↔ ARI 25 pre-arb 41 -0.3 0.2 -0.8
Michael Taylor 25 pre-arb 11 -0.3 0.4 -1.2
Daric Barton 25 arb 67 -0.4 0.4 -1.4
Michael Wuertz 32 FA-elig 39 -0.5 2.8 -4.1
Andy LaRoche 27 arb 40 -0.6 0.6 -2.0
Chris Carter 24 pre-arb 15 -0.7 0.4 -2.0
Landon Powell 29 pre-arb 36 -0.7 0.4 -2.1
Adam Rosales 28 arb 24 -1.1 0.4 -3.0

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 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.