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President of baseball ops: John Mozeliak (since 2018) · GM: Mike Girsch (since 2018)

2019 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+7.1
WAB — wins above budget
+0.0
TAB — roster Talent above budget
91–71 (0.562)
record · made playoffs
-34M
surplus $M (value/$)
36.1
roster fWAR
$150.7M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Jack Flaherty 23 pre-arb 38 4.8 0.6 +15.3
Tommy Edman 24 – 92 3.6 0.3 +11.4
Paul DeJong 25 pre-arb 159 3.4 1.7 +9.4
Kolten Wong 28 FA-elig 148 3.3 6.5 +4.2
Paul Goldschmidt 31 FA-elig 161 3.0 14.5 -4.6
Miles Mikolas 30 FA-elig 32 2.3 8.0 -0.4
Adam Wainwright 37 FA-elig 31 2.3 2.0 +5.4
Marcell Ozuna 28 FA-elig 130 2.1 12.2 -5.4
Yadier Molina 36 FA-elig 113 1.9 20.0 -13.8
Matt Carpenter 33 FA-elig 129 1.7 14.8 -9.3
Giovanny Gallegos 27 pre-arb 66 1.5 0.5 +4.6
Harrison Bader 25 pre-arb 128 1.5 0.6 +4.5
John Brebbia 29 pre-arb 66 1.3 0.6 +3.7
Carlos Martinez 27 FA-elig 48 1.2 11.7 -7.8
John Gant 26 arb 64 0.9 0.6 +2.2
Lane Thomas 23 – 34 0.7 0.3 +2.0
Dakota Hudson 24 pre-arb 33 0.6 0.6 +1.5
Dexter Fowler 33 FA-elig 150 0.5 16.5 -14.7
Daniel Ponce de Leon 27 – 13 0.5 – –
Jordan Hicks 22 pre-arb 29 0.5 0.6 +0.9
Randy Arozarena 24 – 19 0.2 0.1 +0.6
Ryan Helsley 24 – 24 0.2 0.3 +0.2
Tyler O'Neill 24 pre-arb 60 0.1 0.6 -0.1
Tyler Webb 28 pre-arb 65 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Luke Gregerson 35 FA-elig 6 0.1 5.0 -4.8
Jedd Gyorko↔ LAD 30 FA-elig 38 0.1 8.0 -7.7
Chasen Shreve 28 arb 3 0.1 0.9 -0.7
Edmundo Sosa 23 pre-arb 8 0.1 0.1 +0.1
Adalberto Mejía↔ ANA 26 arb 2 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Génesis Cabrera 22 – 13 0.0 0.1 -0.1
Rangel Ravelo 27 – 29 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Joe Hudson 28 pre-arb 1 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
José A. Martínez 30 arb 128 -0.0 1.1 -1.2
Drew Robinson 27 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.6 -0.8
Mike Mayers 27 arb 16 -0.1 0.6 -0.9
Junior Fernández 22 – 13 -0.1 0.1 -0.6
Yairo Muñoz 24 pre-arb 88 -0.2 0.6 -1.2
Andrew Knizner 24 – 18 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Michael Wacha 27 FA-elig 29 -0.2 6.3 -7.1
Matt Wieters 33 FA-elig 67 -0.3 0.1 -1.0
Dominic Leone 27 arb 40 -0.3 1.3 -2.3
Alex Reyes 24 arb 4 -0.3 0.6 -1.6
Andrew Miller 34 FA-elig 73 -0.4 11.0 -12.4

43 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 42 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.