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GM: Walt Jocketty (since 1995)

2000 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+10.5
WAB — wins above budget
+9.6
TAB — roster Talent above budget
95–67 (0.586)
record · made playoffs
-2M
surplus $M (value/$)
46.2
roster fWAR
$66.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jim Edmonds 30 FA-elig 152 6.5 4.5 +4.7
Mark McGwire 36 FA-elig 89 4.6 9.3 -2.8
Darryl Kile 31 FA-elig 34 4.4 7.4 -1.2
J.D. Drew 24 pre-arb 135 3.8 1.8 +3.6
Rick Ankiel 20 pre-arb 35 3.4 0.2 +4.6
Fernando Viña 31 FA-elig 123 3.1 2.3 +2.1
Mike Matheny 29 FA-elig 128 2.3 0.8 +2.6
Will Clark↔ BAL 36 FA-elig 51 2.2 2.4 +0.7
Pat Hentgen 31 FA-elig 33 2.1 6.0 -3.1
Edgar Renteria 23 arb 150 2.0 2.2 +0.6
Placido Polanco 24 pre-arb 118 2.0 0.2 +2.6
Fernando Tatis 25 arb 96 1.8 0.8 +1.8
Garrett Stephenson 28 arb 32 1.7 0.6 +1.8
Dave Veres 33 FA-elig 71 1.5 1.4 +0.7
Ray Lankford 33 FA-elig 128 1.4 7.6 -5.6
Andy Benes 32 FA-elig 30 1.4 2.9 -0.9
Eric Davis 38 FA-elig 92 1.3 4.4 -2.6
Matt Morris 25 arb 32 1.0 0.6 +0.8
Eli Marrero 26 arb 53 0.6 0.2 +0.7
Britt Reames 26 – 10 0.5 – –
Eduardo Perez 30 – 35 0.5 – –
Shawon Dunston 37 FA-elig 98 0.5 0.6 +0.0
Keith McDonald 27 – 6 0.3 – –
Jason Christiansen↔ PIT 30 arb 21 0.3 0.3 +0.1
Mike Timlin↔ BAL 34 FA-elig 25 0.2 1.7 -1.4
Mike James 32 – 52 0.1 – –
Carlos Hernandez↔ SDP 33 FA-elig 17 0.1 0.4 -0.3
Justin Brunette 24 – 4 0.0 – –
Larry Sutton 30 – 23 0.0 – –
Rick Wilkins 33 – 4 0.0 – –
Scott Radinsky 32 FA-elig 1 0.0 2.5 -2.5
Jose Rodriguez 25 – 6 -0.0 – –
Luther Hackman 25 – 1 -0.1 – –
Mike Mohler↔ CLE 31 FA-elig 22 -0.1 0.6 -0.7
Alan Benes 28 – 30 -0.1 – –
Luis Saturria 23 – 12 -0.1 – –
Darren Holmes↔ ARI 34 FA-elig 5 -0.1 0.5 -0.7
Chris Richard↔ BAL 26 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
David Wainhouse 32 FA-elig 9 -0.1 0.2 -0.4
Mike Matthews 26 – 14 -0.2 – –
Mark Thompson 29 FA-elig 20 -0.2 0.4 -0.7
Jesse Orosco 43 FA-elig 6 -0.2 1.1 -1.4
Heathcliff Slocumb↔ SDP 34 FA-elig 44 -0.3 1.1 -1.5
Craig Paquette 31 FA-elig 134 -0.4 0.6 -1.1
Gene Stechschulte 26 – 20 -0.5 – –
Thomas Howard 35 FA-elig 86 -0.8 0.7 -1.8

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 33 of them (72%). 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 STL
Adam Wainwright200352.6
Ozzie Smith198148.0
Paul Goldschmidt201821.3
Mark McGwire199719.7
Nolan Arenado202118.3
Édgar Rentería199817.4
Carlos Martínez201316.0
José Oquendo198515.3
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Andy Van Slyke198731.1
Lance Johnson198817.3
Keith Hernandez198316.5
David Peralta201414.5
Mike LaValliere198712.9
Jack Wilson200011.0
Marco Gonzales201710.1
Coco Crisp20029.9
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.