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GM: Billy Beane (since 1998)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.7
WAB — wins above budget
+8.3
TAB — roster Talent above budget
88–74 (0.543)
record · made playoffs
+29M
surplus $M (value/$)
39.0
roster fWAR
$84.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Josh Donaldson 28 arb 158 5.7 0.5 +16.1
Sonny Gray 24 pre-arb 33 3.4 0.5 +9.5
Scott Kazmir 30 FA-elig 32 3.3 7.0 +2.8
Brandon Moss 30 FA-elig 147 2.7 4.1 +3.7
Yoenis Cespedes↔ BOS 28 pre-arb 101 2.5 7.0 +0.4
Sean Doolittle 27 pre-arb 62 2.5 0.6 +6.5
Derek Norris 25 pre-arb 127 2.2 0.5 +5.8
Jeff Samardzija↔ CHC 29 FA-elig 16 2.2 2.6 +3.7
Josh Reddick 27 arb 109 2.1 2.7 +3.6
Jed Lowrie 30 FA-elig 136 1.7 5.2 -0.2
Coco Crisp 34 FA-elig 126 1.7 7.5 -2.7
Jon Lester↔ BOS 30 FA-elig 11 1.6 4.5 +0.1
Jesse Chavez 30 FA-elig 32 1.5 0.8 +3.7
Stephen Vogt 29 pre-arb 84 1.5 0.5 +3.8
Craig Gentry 30 arb 94 1.3 1.1 +2.6
Sam Fuld↔ MIN 32 FA-elig 60 1.1 0.4 +2.9
Luke Gregerson 30 arb 72 0.9 5.1 -2.4
Drew Pomeranz 25 pre-arb 20 0.7 0.4 +1.8
Dan Otero 29 pre-arb 72 0.7 0.5 +1.5
Fernando Abad 28 arb 69 0.6 0.5 +1.4
Tommy Milone↔ MIN 27 arb 17 0.6 0.4 +1.4
John Jaso 30 FA-elig 99 0.6 2.3 -0.7
Kyle Blanks↔ SDP 27 arb 21 0.5 0.8 +0.8
Geovany Soto↔ TEX 31 FA-elig 14 0.4 1.8 -0.7
Ryan Cook 27 arb 54 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Nick Punto 36 FA-elig 73 0.2 2.8 -2.2
Eric Sogard 28 arb 117 0.1 0.5 -0.2
Fernando Rodriguez Jr. 30 arb 7 0.1 0.6 -0.3
Jeff Francis↔ CIN 33 – 9 0.0 – –
Nate Freiman 27 pre-arb 36 0.0 0.2 -0.2
Brad Mills↔ TOR 29 – 3 0.0 – –
Adam Dunn↔ CHW 34 FA-elig 25 -0.0 2.9 -2.9
Joe Savery 28 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Andy Parrino 28 – 21 -0.0 – –
Bryan Anderson 27 – 1 -0.0 – –
Eric O'Flaherty 29 FA-elig 21 -0.1 1.5 -1.7
Josh Lindblom 27 – 1 -0.1 – –
Evan Scribner 28 arb 13 -0.2 0.5 -1.0
Billy Burns 24 – 13 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Dan Straily↔ CHC 25 pre-arb 7 -0.2 0.3 -0.9
Jonny Gomes↔ BOS 33 FA-elig 34 -0.3 1.5 -2.3
Jason Hammel↔ CHC 31 FA-elig 13 -0.3 2.6 -3.5
Daric Barton 28 FA-elig 30 -0.5 1.2 -2.7
Jim Johnson↔ DET 31 FA-elig 38 -0.6 7.0 -8.8
Alberto Callaspo 31 FA-elig 127 -1.3 4.9 -8.6

45 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (89%). 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.