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GM: John Mozeliak (since 2008)

2014 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.3
WAB — wins above budget
-1.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
90–72 (0.556)
record · made playoffs
-21M
surplus $M (value/$)
34.0
roster fWAR
$119.9M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Adam Wainwright 32 FA-elig 32 5.3 19.5 -4.0
Jhonny Peralta 32 FA-elig 157 4.6 15.5 -2.0
Matt Carpenter 28 arb 158 3.4 1.0 +9.0
Lance Lynn 27 arb 33 3.4 0.5 +9.4
Yadier Molina 31 FA-elig 110 3.2 15.0 -5.5
Matt Holliday 34 FA-elig 156 3.2 17.0 -7.7
Pat Neshek 33 FA-elig 71 2.0 1.0 +4.7
Kolten Wong 23 pre-arb 113 1.8 0.5 +4.9
Matt Adams 25 pre-arb 142 1.8 0.5 +4.7
Jon Jay 29 arb 140 1.7 3.2 +1.7
Michael Wacha 22 pre-arb 19 1.6 0.5 +4.3
Carlos Martinez 22 pre-arb 57 1.4 0.5 +3.6
Peter Bourjos 27 arb 119 1.2 1.2 +2.3
Trevor Rosenthal 24 pre-arb 72 1.2 0.5 +2.9
Shelby Miller 23 pre-arb 32 1.0 0.5 +2.5
Jaime García 27 FA-elig 8 0.6 7.8 -6.1
Seth Maness 25 pre-arb 73 0.6 0.5 +1.1
John Lackey↔ BOS 35 FA-elig 10 0.5 4.9 -3.6
Joe Kelly↔ BOS 26 pre-arb 7 0.4 0.2 +0.9
Randal Grichuk 22 – 47 0.3 0.3 +0.5
Pete Kozma 26 arb 14 0.3 0.5 +0.3
Tyler Lyons 26 pre-arb 11 0.3 0.3 +0.5
Marco Gonzales 22 – 10 0.2 0.1 +0.5
Randy Choate 38 FA-elig 61 0.2 3.0 -2.4
Eric Fornataro 26 – 8 0.0 – –
Audry Pérez 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Greg Garcia 24 – 14 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Keith Butler 25 pre-arb 2 -0.0 0.5 -0.5
Jorge Rondon 26 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Sam Freeman 27 pre-arb 44 -0.0 0.4 -0.4
Tommy Pham 26 – 6 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
George Kottaras↔ CLE 31 – 4 -0.1 0.0 -0.2
Joey Butler 28 – 6 -0.1 – –
Daniel Descalso 27 arb 104 -0.1 1.3 -1.6
Xavier Scruggs 26 – 9 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Kevin Siegrist 24 pre-arb 37 -0.2 0.5 -1.1
Nick Greenwood 26 – 19 -0.2 0.3 -1.0
Sam Tuivailala 21 – 2 -0.3 0.1 -0.9
Justin Masterson↔ CLE 29 FA-elig 9 -0.3 3.1 -4.1
Shane Robinson 29 arb 47 -0.4 0.5 -1.8
Mark Ellis 37 FA-elig 73 -0.4 5.2 -6.5
A.J. Pierzynski↔ BOS 37 FA-elig 30 -0.5 2.4 -3.9
Allen Craig↔ BOS 29 arb 97 -0.6 2.1 -3.8
Jason Motte 32 FA-elig 29 -0.6 7.5 -9.3
Oscar Taveras 22 – 80 -0.9 0.5 -3.1
Tony Cruz 27 arb 50 -1.3 0.5 -4.3

46 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 43 of them (93%). 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.