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GM: Billy Beane (since 1998)

2012 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+18.4
WAB — wins above budget
+10.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
94–68 (0.580)
record · made playoffs
+37M
surplus $M (value/$)
38.9
roster fWAR
$60.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Yoenis Cespedes 26 pre-arb 129 4.0 6.5 +3.8
Josh Reddick 25 arb 156 3.6 0.5 +8.9
Jarrod Parker 23 pre-arb 29 3.6 0.5 +8.8
Tommy Milone 25 pre-arb 31 3.1 0.5 +7.5
Bartolo Colon 39 FA-elig 24 2.5 2.0 +4.5
Coco Crisp 32 FA-elig 120 2.5 6.0 +0.5
Brandon Moss 28 pre-arb 84 2.4 0.5 +5.6
Jonny Gomes 31 FA-elig 99 2.3 1.0 +4.9
Brandon McCarthy 28 FA-elig 18 1.9 4.3 +0.6
Grant Balfour 34 FA-elig 75 1.6 4.0 +0.2
Sean Doolittle 25 – 44 1.6 0.5 +3.7
Ryan Cook 25 pre-arb 71 1.6 0.5 +3.5
Seth Smith 29 arb 125 1.5 2.4 +1.5
Chris Carter 25 pre-arb 67 1.5 0.5 +3.3
A.J. Griffin 24 – 15 1.4 0.5 +3.2
Josh Donaldson 26 pre-arb 75 1.2 0.5 +2.5
Travis Blackley↔ SFG 29 – 24 1.1 – –
Cliff Pennington 28 arb 125 1.0 0.5 +2.1
Brett Anderson 24 arb 6 0.9 3.2 -0.9
Derek Norris 23 – 60 0.6 0.5 +1.1
Jordan Norberto 25 pre-arb 39 0.5 0.5 +0.8
Daric Barton 26 arb 46 0.4 1.1 -0.0
Evan Scribner 26 pre-arb 30 0.4 0.5 +0.5
George Kottaras↔ MIL 29 arb 27 0.3 0.2 +0.7
Stephen Drew↔ ARI 29 FA-elig 39 0.3 3.8 -3.0
Tyson Ross 25 pre-arb 18 0.3 0.5 +0.3
Collin Cowgill 26 pre-arb 38 0.2 0.5 -0.1
Adam Rosales 29 arb 42 0.1 0.6 -0.2
Brandon Inge↔ DET 35 FA-elig 74 0.1 4.9 -4.6
Jerry Blevins 28 arb 63 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Jeremy Accardo↔ CLE 30 arb 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Rich Thompson↔ ANA 27 arb 1 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Fautino De Los Santos 26 pre-arb 6 0.0 0.5 -0.5
Andrew Carignan 25 pre-arb 11 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Pat Neshek 31 – 24 -0.0 – –
Kila Ka'aihue 28 arb 39 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Pedro Figueroa 26 pre-arb 19 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Jesse Chavez↔ TOR 28 pre-arb 4 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Brandon Hicks 26 pre-arb 22 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Michael Taylor 26 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.5 -0.8
Jim Miller 30 – 33 -0.1 – –
Brandon Allen↔ TBR 26 arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Jemile Weeks 25 pre-arb 118 -0.2 0.5 -0.9
Graham Godfrey 27 pre-arb 5 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Eric Sogard 26 pre-arb 37 -0.3 0.5 -1.2
Brian Fuentes↔ STL 36 FA-elig 26 -0.3 4.1 -4.9
Dan Straily 23 – 7 -0.4 0.5 -1.5
Anthony Recker↔ CHC 28 pre-arb 13 -0.4 0.3 -1.3
Luke Hughes↔ MIN 27 pre-arb 4 -0.4 0.2 -1.4
Kurt Suzuki↔ WSN 28 arb 75 -0.8 3.2 -5.2

50 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 of them (94%). 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.