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GM: John Mozeliak (since 2008)

2011 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+5.4
WAB — wins above budget
+4.4
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record · World Series champions
-16M
surplus $M (value/$)
41.2
roster fWAR
$116.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Yadier Molina 28 FA-elig 139 5.4 5.3 +7.9
Lance Berkman 35 FA-elig 145 4.7 8.0 +3.6
Chris Carpenter 36 FA-elig 34 4.5 14.3 -3.2
Matt Holliday 31 FA-elig 124 4.4 16.3 -5.5
Albert Pujols 31 FA-elig 147 3.9 14.5 -4.9
Jaime García 24 arb 32 2.9 0.4 +6.7
Jon Jay 26 pre-arb 159 2.3 0.4 +5.2
Kyle Lohse 32 FA-elig 35 2.3 12.2 -6.6
Allen Craig 26 pre-arb 75 2.3 0.4 +5.1
David Freese 28 pre-arb 97 2.2 0.4 +5.1
Nick Punto 33 FA-elig 63 1.7 0.8 +3.4
Jason Motte 29 arb 78 1.4 0.4 +3.1
Colby Rasmus↔ TOR 24 pre-arb 94 1.0 0.3 +2.2
Fernando Salas 26 pre-arb 68 0.9 0.4 +1.7
Edwin Jackson↔ CHW 27 FA-elig 13 0.9 3.6 -1.4
Octavio Dotel↔ TOR 37 FA-elig 29 0.8 1.3 +0.7
Jake Westbrook 33 FA-elig 35 0.8 8.0 -6.1
Rafael Furcal↔ LAD 33 FA-elig 50 0.8 7.5 -5.6
Lance Lynn 24 – 18 0.5 0.3 +0.9
Daniel Descalso 24 pre-arb 148 0.4 0.4 +0.6
Eduardo Sanchez 22 pre-arb 26 0.4 0.4 +0.5
Mitchell Boggs 27 arb 51 0.3 0.4 +0.4
Marc Rzepczynski↔ TOR 25 pre-arb 28 0.3 0.2 +0.6
Tony Cruz 24 – 38 0.3 0.4 +0.2
Skip Schumaker 31 FA-elig 117 0.2 2.8 -2.3
Ryan Theriot 31 FA-elig 132 0.2 3.3 -2.9
Pete Kozma 23 – 16 0.1 0.4 -0.2
Raul Valdes↔ NYY 33 – 7 0.1 – –
Tyler Greene 27 pre-arb 58 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Brandon Dickson 26 – 4 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Adron Chambers 24 – 18 -0.0 0.4 -0.5
Bryan Augenstein 24 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.4 -0.6
P.J. Walters↔ TOR 26 – 4 -0.1 – –
Gerald Laird 31 FA-elig 37 -0.1 1.0 -1.3
Matt Carpenter 25 – 7 -0.1 0.0 -0.3
Andrew Brown 26 – 11 -0.1 0.4 -0.8
Shane Robinson 26 pre-arb 9 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Mark Hamilton 26 pre-arb 38 -0.2 0.4 -0.8
Maikel Cleto 22 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.4 -0.9
Trever Miller↔ BOS 38 FA-elig 39 -0.3 1.6 -2.3
Arthur Rhodes↔ TEX 41 FA-elig 19 -0.3 1.5 -2.2
Corey Patterson↔ TOR 31 FA-elig 44 -0.3 0.3 -1.0
Brian Tallet↔ TOR 33 FA-elig 18 -0.5 0.7 -2.0
Miguel Batista↔ NYM 40 FA-elig 26 -0.5 0.6 -1.8
Kyle McClellan 27 arb 44 -0.8 1.4 -3.3
Ryan Franklin 38 FA-elig 21 -1.2 3.2 -6.1

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 44 of them (96%). 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.