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GM: John Mozeliak (since 2008)

2017 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.4
WAB — wins above budget
+5.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
83–79 (0.512)
record
-7M
surplus $M (value/$)
40.8
roster fWAR
$145.4M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Tommy Pham 29 pre-arb 128 5.8 0.4 +19.1
Jedd Gyorko 28 arb 125 3.6 6.0 +6.0
Carlos Martinez 25 arb 34 3.5 3.7 +8.1
Matt Carpenter 31 FA-elig 145 2.7 10.0 -0.9
Michael Wacha 25 arb 30 2.7 2.8 +6.3
Yadier Molina 34 FA-elig 136 2.5 14.0 -5.5
Dexter Fowler 31 FA-elig 118 2.4 16.5 -8.3
Kolten Wong 26 arb 108 2.1 2.5 +4.5
Adam Wainwright 35 FA-elig 26 2.0 19.5 -12.6
Paul DeJong 23 – 108 2.0 0.4 +6.3
Mike Leake↔ SEA 29 FA-elig 27 1.9 12.7 -6.1
José A. Martínez 28 pre-arb 106 1.6 0.5 +4.9
Trevor Rosenthal 27 arb 50 1.6 6.4 -1.0
Randal Grichuk 25 arb 122 1.4 0.6 +4.2
Luke Weaver 23 pre-arb 15 1.4 0.2 +4.5
Tyler Lyons 29 arb 50 1.0 0.5 +3.0
Brett Cecil 30 FA-elig 73 1.0 7.8 -4.2
Greg Garcia 27 arb 133 1.0 0.5 +2.9
Lance Lynn 30 FA-elig 33 1.0 7.5 -4.1
Matt Bowman 26 pre-arb 76 0.7 0.5 +1.7
Stephen Piscotty 26 pre-arb 107 0.7 1.3 +0.9
Aledmys Díaz 26 pre-arb 79 0.4 2.5 -1.1
Juan Nicasio↔ PHI 30 FA-elig 9 0.2 0.4 +0.3
Sam Tuivailala 24 arb 37 0.2 0.5 +0.2
Luke Voit 26 – 62 0.2 0.3 +0.3
Harrison Bader 23 – 32 0.1 0.1 +0.3
John Brebbia 27 – 50 0.1 0.4 -0.1
Ryan Sherriff 27 – 13 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Chad Huffman 32 – 12 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Seunghwan Oh 34 pre-arb 62 0.0 2.8 -2.6
Magneuris Sierra 21 – 22 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Kevin Siegrist↔ PHI 27 arb 39 -0.0 1.4 -1.5
Alberto Rosario 30 pre-arb 3 -0.1 0.1 -0.3
Jonathan Broxton 33 FA-elig 20 -0.1 3.8 -4.0
Matt Adams↔ ATL 28 arb 31 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
Sandy Alcantara 21 – 8 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Jack Flaherty 21 – 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.4
Miguel Socolovich 30 arb 15 -0.1 0.5 -0.9
Josh Lucas 26 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.0 -0.5
Mike Mayers 25 pre-arb 3 -0.2 0.0 -0.5
Marco Gonzales↔ SEA 25 – 1 -0.2 0.0 -0.6
Breyvic Valera 25 – 5 -0.2 0.1 -0.7
Zach Duke 34 FA-elig 27 -0.2 5.5 -6.3
John Gant 24 pre-arb 7 -0.3 0.5 -1.4
Jhonny Peralta 35 FA-elig 21 -0.3 10.0 -11.1
Eric Fryer 31 FA-elig 34 -0.3 0.7 -1.8
Carson Kelly 22 pre-arb 34 -0.4 0.2 -1.5
Alex D. Mejia 26 – 29 -0.4 – –

48 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 47 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
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.