Cardinals — Front Office

Player	Age	Service	G	fWAR	Salary $M	Surplus $M
Yadier Molina	33	FA-elig	147	4.5	14.0	+0.7
Matt Carpenter	30	arb	129	4.0	6.5	+6.5
Adam Wainwright	34	FA-elig	34	3.7	19.5	-7.6
Carlos Martinez	24	arb	33	3.6	0.5	+11.0
Aledmys Díaz	25	pre-arb	111	3.1	2.5	+7.6
Stephen Piscotty	25	pre-arb	153	2.7	0.5	+8.4
Jedd Gyorko	27	arb	128	2.6	4.0	+4.6
Seunghwan Oh	33	pre-arb	76	2.5	2.5	+5.7
Mike Leake	28	FA-elig	34	2.5	12.0	-3.8
Randal Grichuk	24	pre-arb	132	1.7	0.5	+4.9
Michael Wacha	24	arb	27	1.5	0.5	+4.4
Alex Reyes	21	–	12	1.2	0.2	+3.8
Brandon Moss	32	FA-elig	128	1.2	8.2	-4.3
Jaime García	29	FA-elig	32	1.2	11.5	-7.8
Greg Garcia	26	pre-arb	99	1.1	0.5	+3.1
Kolten Wong	25	arb	121	1.0	1.2	+2.1
Matt Adams	27	arb	118	0.8	1.6	+0.9
Matt Bowman	25	pre-arb	59	0.7	0.5	+1.6
Luke Weaver	22	–	9	0.6	0.1	+1.9
Jeremy Hazelbaker	28	pre-arb	114	0.6	0.5	+1.3
Matt Holliday	36	FA-elig	110	0.5	17.0	-15.3
Jhonny Peralta	34	FA-elig	82	0.5	12.5	-10.8
Zach Duke↔ CHW	33	FA-elig	28	0.4	1.7	-0.3
Eric Fryer↔ PIT	30	arb	24	0.3	0.2	+0.8
Tommy Pham	28	pre-arb	78	0.3	0.5	+0.5
José A. Martínez	27	–	12	0.2	–	–
Trevor Rosenthal	26	arb	45	0.2	5.6	-5.0
Miguel Socolovich	29	pre-arb	15	0.1	0.1	+0.2
Seth Maness	27	arb	29	0.1	1.4	-1.1
Jonathan Broxton	32	FA-elig	66	0.1	3.8	-3.5
Kevin Siegrist	26	arb	67	0.1	0.5	-0.4
Sam Tuivailala	23	pre-arb	12	-0.0	0.1	-0.2
Dean Kiekhefer	27	–	26	-0.0	0.2	-0.3
Michael McKenry	31	–	3	-0.0	0.0	-0.2
Carson Kelly	21	–	10	-0.1	0.1	-0.3
Tyler Lyons	28	arb	30	-0.1	0.5	-0.8
Alberto Rosario	29	–	20	-0.2	0.2	-0.8
Brayan Peña	34	FA-elig	9	-0.2	2.5	-3.1
Jerome Williams	34	FA-elig	11	-0.3	0.2	-1.1
Mike Mayers	24	–	4	-0.4	0.1	-1.2
Rubén Tejada↔ SFG	26	FA-elig	23	-0.5	1.0	-2.7

41 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (98%). 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

Player	Year	WAR for STL
Adam Wainwright	2003	52.6
Ozzie Smith	1981	48.0
Paul Goldschmidt	2018	21.3
Mark McGwire	1997	19.7
Nolan Arenado	2021	18.3
Édgar Rentería	1998	17.4
Carlos Martínez	2013	16.0
José Oquendo	1985	15.3

Ones that got away

Player	Year traded	WAR elsewhere
Andy Van Slyke	1987	31.1
Lance Johnson	1988	17.3
Keith Hernandez	1983	16.5
David Peralta	2014	14.5
Mike LaValliere	1987	12.9
Jack Wilson	2000	11.0
Marco Gonzales	2017	10.1
Coco Crisp	2002	9.9

Cardinals STL

2016 roster — every player, value & surplus

History: front-office performance & develop-vs-buy (1985–2024)

Trade ledger (realized WAR, all-time)