Oakland Athletics Draft History

_{All tables below are based on the amount of WAR each player produced during their first seven seasons in Major League Baseball. The WAR totals for each draft class include both Pitching and Hitting WAR, but excludes any player that did not sign with their drafting team. The total WAR also reflects the total value the drafted player provided, not just the value to his drafting team.}

_{^{*Data accurate through 2019 season.}}

Top Five Draft Classes

Year	Team	WAR
1965	Kansas City Athletics	61.6
1976	Oakland Athletics	41.9
2002	Oakland Athletics	40.0
1966	Kansas City Athletics	37.4
1973	Oakland Athletics	37.1

Bottom Five Draft Classes

Year	Team	WAR
1978	Oakland Athletics	-1.6
1975	Oakland Athletics	-0.3
1979	Oakland Athletics	-0.1
1989	Oakland Athletics	-0.1
1971	Oakland Athletics	0.0

This list excludes any season past 2010, since those draft classes have a multitude of active players.

Top Five Draft Picks

Year Drafted	Round	Overall Pick	Name	WAR
1976	4	96	Rickey Henderson	41.9
1966	1	2	Reggie Jackson	34.0
1997	6	185	Tim Hudson	29.4
1992	2	58	Jason Giambi	28.4
1965	6	119	Sal Bando	28.2

List made from top five WAR values alone.

Five Biggest Busts

Year Drafted	Round	Overall Pick	Name	WAR
1980	1	4	Mike King	No MLB Experience
1978	1	4	Mike Morgan	0.5
1983	1	5	Stan Hilton	No MLB Experience
1995	1	5	Ariel Prieto	3.9
1967	1	7	Brien Bickerton	No MLB Experience

List made from first round picks that produced less than 5.0 WAR in their first seven seasons and ordered by lowest overall pick.

Top Five Value Picks

Year Drafted	Round	Overall Pick	Name	WAR
1982	15	392	Jose Canseco	25.5
1973	15	359	Dwayne Murphy	22.3
1965	20	340	Gene Tenace	18.7
2000	17	510	Rich Harden	16.5
2004	24	727	Dallas Braden	8.1

List made from top five WAR values where a player was drafted outside of the first ten rounds.

Top Five Unsigned Draft Picks

Year Drafted	Round	Overall Pick	Name	WAR
1994	35	961	Tim Hudson	29.4
1969	6	129	Jim Sundberg	23.6
1981	6	144	Alvin Davis	22.8
1973	3	71	Floyd Bannister	20.0
1980	24	598	Danny Jackson	19.1

List made from top five WAR values where a player did not sign with the team.

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