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GM: David Forst (since 2016)

2025 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+3.3
WAB — wins above budget
+3.8
TAB — roster Talent above budget
76–86 (0.469)
record
+40M
surplus $M (value/$)
29.3
roster fWAR
$73.1M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Nick Kurtz 22 – 117 4.6 0.6 +16.9
Shea Langeliers 27 pre-arb 123 3.9 0.8 +14.3
Tyler Soderstrom 23 pre-arb 158 3.4 0.8 +12.2
Jacob Wilson 23 pre-arb 125 3.4 0.8 +12.2
Luis Severino 31 FA-elig 29 2.5 20.0 -10.3
Brent Rooker 30 arb 162 2.4 4.0 +5.2
Lawrence Butler 24 pre-arb 152 2.0 2.7 +4.9
Jeffrey Springs 32 FA-elig 32 1.7 10.5 -3.9
Denzel Clarke 25 – 47 1.3 0.5 +4.5
Jacob Lopez 27 pre-arb 21 1.2 0.6 +4.2
Sean Newcomb↔ BOS 32 arb 36 1.0 0.5 +3.4
Mason Miller↔ SDP 26 – 38 1.0 0.3 +3.4
J.T. Ginn 26 pre-arb 23 0.8 0.7 +2.2
Carlos Cortes 28 – 42 0.7 0.3 +2.6
JP Sears↔ SDP 29 – 22 0.7 0.4 +2.3
Max Schuemann 28 pre-arb 101 0.6 0.7 +1.4
Hogan Harris 28 pre-arb 48 0.6 0.6 +1.5
Luis Morales 22 – 10 0.5 0.2 +1.5
Miguel Andujar↔ CIN 30 – 60 0.4 1.3 +0.4
Brett Harris 27 pre-arb 32 0.4 0.2 +1.3
Jack Perkins 25 – 12 0.4 0.4 +1.0
Justin Sterner 28 pre-arb 59 0.3 0.7 +0.6
Tyler Ferguson 31 pre-arb 56 0.3 0.6 +0.5
Austin Wynns↔ CIN 34 arb 22 0.2 0.4 +0.4
Mason Barnett 24 – 5 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Luis Urías 28 – 96 0.1 1.4 -0.9
Elvis Alvarado 26 – 37 0.1 0.4 -0.0
Brady Basso 27 pre-arb 11 0.1 0.7 -0.4
Matt Krook 30 – 3 0.1 0.0 +0.2
Noah Murdock 26 – 14 0.0 0.2 -0.0
Grant Holman 25 pre-arb 22 0.0 0.6 -0.6
Colby Thomas 24 – 49 0.0 0.3 -0.3
Angel Perdomo 31 pre-arb 4 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Scott McGough↔ ARI 35 pre-arb 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Carlos Duran 23 – 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.2
Mitch Spence 27 pre-arb 32 -0.0 0.5 -0.7
Willie MacIver 28 – 33 -0.0 0.4 -0.6
T.J. McFarland 36 – 27 -0.1 1.8 -2.0
Ben Bowden 30 pre-arb 11 -0.1 0.3 -0.6
Eduarniel Núñez↔ SDP 26 – 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.4
Darell Hernaiz 23 pre-arb 51 -0.1 0.3 -0.7
JJ Bleday 27 pre-arb 98 -0.1 0.6 -1.1
Michael Kelly 32 pre-arb 42 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Anthony Maldonado 27 pre-arb 6 -0.2 0.1 -0.8
Drew Avans↔ MIL 29 – 7 -0.2 0.0 -0.9
Jason Alexander↔ HOU 32 – 4 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Jhonny Pereda↔ MIN 29 – 19 -0.2 0.2 -1.1
José Leclerc 31 FA-elig 10 -0.3 10.0 -11.0
CJ Alexander 28 – 6 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
Michel Otañez 27 pre-arb 6 -0.3 0.3 -1.2
Zack Gelof 25 pre-arb 30 -0.3 0.6 -1.6
Joey Estes 23 pre-arb 3 -0.3 0.2 -1.5
Logan Davidson↔ ANA 27 – 9 -0.3 0.1 -1.4
Gio Urshela 33 – 59 -0.4 – –
Seth Brown 32 – 38 -0.4 2.7 -4.1
Max Muncy 22 – 63 -0.4 0.6 -2.0
Gunnar Hoglund 25 – 6 -0.4 0.6 -2.2
Osvaldo Bido 29 pre-arb 26 -0.6 0.6 -2.8

58 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 57 of them (98%). 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.