As Adbono has already heard, yesterday I, along with my three sons, watched the film Moneyball (for only the second time, I'm ashamed to admit; it's a very good film with a smart script) while my wife was painting our home's exterior (also to my shame) 
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This led me to the following, some of which I think I knew before but had long since forgotten. (I know this is covered thoroughly by Michael Lewis' book, which I will now read again. Maybe. What I do know is that Lewis is one of the writers whose work I will always read: Lewis. Don DeLillo. Cormac McCarthy. Malcolm Gladwell. Louise Erdrich. Alice Munro. Robert Hass. Basho.)
But I digress. Here's what I learned, or remembered:
Another digression: if everyone knows all this already, sorry! I just got a little excited by the film.
The 2002 Oakland A's had 7 first round draft picks out of 41 possible picks:
(16) Nick Swisher (compensation for losing Johnny Damon)
(24) Joe Blanton (compensation for losing Jason Giambi)
(26) John McCurdy (A's slot)
(30) Ben Fritz (compensation for losing Jason Isringhausen)
(35) Jeremy Brown (compensation for losing Jason Giambi)
(37) Steve Obenchain (compensation for losing Jason Isringhausen)
(39) Mark Teahen (compensation for losing Johnny Damon)
Search "Beane's List" for more fun info.
AND this, also from Wikipedia, about Jacoby Ellsbury (which I stumbled upon while researching Johnny Damon):
An enrolled member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, Ellsbury is the first American Indian of Navajo descent to play Major League Baseball.
Ellsbury was one of the victims of the $8 billion fraud perpetrated by wealth manager Allen Stanford; although he had some assets frozen, it did not cause him any significant hardship akin to those suffered by Johnny Damon and Xavier Nady.
Ellsbury released a Zinfandel wine called ZinfandEllsbury through Charity Wines, with 100% of his proceeds donated among three charities: The Navajo Relief Fund, Project Bread: The Walk for Hunger, and Ellsbury Read Project. The wine launched alongside a charity wine by former Boston Red Sox teammate Josh Beckett, called Chardon-K.