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

2022 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.1
WAB — wins above budget
+9.5
TAB — roster Talent above budget
93–69 (0.574)
record · made playoffs
+1M
surplus $M (value/$)
45.5
roster fWAR
$165.0M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Nolan Arenado 31 FA-elig 148 7.2 35.0 -8.7
Paul Goldschmidt 34 FA-elig 151 6.8 26.0 -1.1
Tommy Edman 27 pre-arb 153 5.4 0.7 +18.8
Adam Wainwright 40 FA-elig 32 2.9 17.5 -7.0
Miles Mikolas 33 FA-elig 33 2.8 17.0 -6.7
Lars Nootbaar 24 pre-arb 108 2.6 0.5 +9.1
Brendan Donovan 25 – 126 2.6 0.6 +8.8
Ryan Helsley 27 pre-arb 54 2.0 0.7 +6.6
Albert Pujols 42 FA-elig 109 1.9 2.5 +4.4
Dylan Carlson 23 pre-arb 128 1.9 0.7 +6.1
Jose Quintana↔ PIT 33 FA-elig 12 1.8 0.8 +5.9
Tyler O'Neill 27 arb 96 1.5 3.4 +2.2
Harrison Bader↔ NYY 28 arb 72 1.4 4.4 +0.9
Jordan Montgomery↔ NYY 29 arb 11 1.4 2.1 +2.9
Giovanny Gallegos 30 arb 57 1.4 2.4 +2.5
Dakota Hudson 27 arb 27 1.1 1.1 +2.8
Steven Matz 31 FA-elig 15 0.7 8.5 -6.1
Corey Dickerson 33 FA-elig 97 0.6 5.0 -2.7
Andre Pallante 23 – 47 0.6 0.7 +1.5
Jake Woodford 25 pre-arb 27 0.6 0.4 +1.7
Packy Naughton 26 pre-arb 26 0.4 0.4 +1.2
Jordan Hicks 25 arb 35 0.3 0.9 +0.2
Chris Stratton↔ PIT 31 FA-elig 20 0.3 0.9 +0.2
Yadier Molina 39 FA-elig 80 0.1 10.0 -9.5
Johan Oviedo↔ PIT 24 – 14 0.1 0.2 +0.3
Zack Thompson 24 – 22 0.1 0.4 +0.0
Nolan Gorman 22 – 89 0.1 0.5 -0.1
Ben DeLuzio 27 – 22 0.1 0.1 +0.2
Nick Wittgren 31 FA-elig 29 0.1 1.2 -0.9
Angel Rondón 24 – 1 0.1 0.0 +0.3
Edmundo Sosa↔ PHI 26 – 53 0.0 0.3 -0.2
Jake Walsh 26 – 3 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Paul DeJong 28 arb 77 0.0 6.2 -6.1
Matthew Liberatore 22 – 9 0.0 0.1 -0.0
Juan Yepez 24 – 76 0.0 0.5 -0.4
Jack Flaherty 26 arb 9 0.0 5.0 -5.0
Cory Spangenberg 31 arb 1 0.0 0.0 -0.0
Conner Capel↔ OAK 25 – 9 -0.0 0.0 -0.1
Andrew Knizner 27 pre-arb 97 -0.0 0.7 -0.9
Kramer Robertson 27 – 2 -0.1 0.7 -1.0
JoJo Romero↔ PHI 25 pre-arb 15 -0.1 0.4 -0.7
James Naile 29 – 7 -0.1 0.1 -0.5
Aaron Brooks 32 pre-arb 5 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Kodi Whitley 27 pre-arb 14 -0.2 0.2 -0.9
Iván Herrera 22 – 11 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Alec Burleson 23 – 16 -0.2 0.1 -1.0
Junior Fernández↔ PIT 25 – 13 -0.3 0.1 -1.1
T.J. McFarland 33 FA-elig 28 -0.3 2.5 -3.7
Austin Romine↔ ANA 33 FA-elig 11 -0.4 0.1 -1.3
Drew VerHagen 31 FA-elig 19 -0.6 2.5 -4.7
Génesis Cabrera 25 pre-arb 39 -0.8 0.6 -3.4

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.