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GM: David Forst (since 2016)

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-5.5
WAB — wins above budget
-8.1
TAB — roster Talent above budget
69–93 (0.426)
record
-9M
surplus $M (value/$)
19.1
roster fWAR
$70.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Rich Hill↔ LAD 36 FA-elig 14 2.7 4.2 +4.5
Marcus Semien 25 arb 159 2.7 0.5 +8.2
Khris Davis 28 arb 150 2.6 0.5 +7.8
Ryon Healy 24 – 72 2.3 0.2 +7.2
Sean Manaea 24 – 25 2.0 0.4 +5.9
Kendall Graveman 25 pre-arb 31 1.9 0.5 +5.6
Josh Reddick↔ LAD 29 FA-elig 68 1.8 3.9 +2.0
Danny Valencia 31 FA-elig 130 1.7 3.1 +2.3
Liam Hendriks 27 arb 53 1.4 0.5 +3.9
Ryan Dull 26 pre-arb 70 1.2 0.5 +3.3
Andrew Triggs 27 – 24 0.9 0.3 +2.6
Sonny Gray 26 arb 22 0.9 0.5 +2.2
Jharel Cotton 24 – 5 0.7 0.1 +2.2
Daniel Mengden 23 – 14 0.7 0.2 +2.0
Sean Doolittle 29 arb 44 0.6 1.6 +0.4
Fernando Rodriguez Jr. 32 FA-elig 34 0.4 1.1 +0.4
Ryan Madson 35 FA-elig 63 0.4 6.7 -5.2
Ross Detwiler↔ CLE 30 FA-elig 9 0.4 0.6 +0.8
John Axford 33 FA-elig 68 0.3 4.5 -3.4
Marc Rzepczynski↔ WSN 30 FA-elig 56 0.3 2.4 -1.4
Danny Coulombe 26 pre-arb 35 0.3 0.5 +0.5
Stephen Vogt 31 arb 137 0.3 0.5 +0.4
Zach Neal 27 – 24 0.2 0.3 +0.5
Joey Wendle 26 – 28 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Bruce Maxwell 25 – 33 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Chris Smith 35 pre-arb 13 0.2 0.2 +0.4
Coco Crisp↔ CLE 36 FA-elig 102 0.1 9.2 -8.8
Josh Phegley 28 arb 26 0.1 0.5 -0.3
Patrick Schuster↔ PHI 25 – 5 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Jake Smolinski 27 pre-arb 99 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Chris Bassitt 27 pre-arb 5 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Yonder Alonso 29 FA-elig 156 -0.0 2.6 -2.7
Andrew Lambo 27 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.3 -0.3
Matt Olson 22 – 11 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Max Muncy 25 pre-arb 51 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
J.B. Wendelken 23 arb 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Jesse Hahn 26 pre-arb 9 -0.1 0.2 -0.6
Arismendy Alcántara 24 pre-arb 16 -0.2 0.2 -0.8
Chad Pinder 24 – 22 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Renato Núñez 22 – 9 -0.4 0.1 -1.2
Brett Eibner↔ KCR 27 – 44 -0.4 0.1 -1.3
Mark Canha 27 pre-arb 16 -0.4 0.5 -1.8
Matt McBride 31 – 20 -0.4 0.2 -1.5
Eric Surkamp 28 – 9 -0.4 0.1 -1.5
Billy Butler↔ NYY 30 FA-elig 85 -0.5 10.2 -11.8
Raúl Alcántara 23 – 5 -0.6 0.1 -2.0
Tyler Ladendorf 28 pre-arb 45 -0.6 0.4 -2.4
Billy Burns↔ KCR 26 pre-arb 73 -0.7 0.4 -2.6
Dillon Overton 24 – 7 -0.9 0.1 -2.9
Jed Lowrie 32 FA-elig 87 -1.0 7.5 -10.8
Chris Coghlan↔ CHC 31 FA-elig 51 -1.1 2.5 -6.1

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.