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

2024 roster — every player, value & surplus

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-0.3
WAB — wins above budget
-3.2
TAB — roster Talent above budget
83–79 (0.512)
record
-44M
surplus $M (value/$)
32.4
roster fWAR
$179.2M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Sonny Gray 34 FA-elig 28 3.8 10.0 +5.9
Masyn Winn 22 pre-arb 150 3.6 0.7 +14.3
Nolan Arenado 33 FA-elig 152 3.2 35.0 -21.7
Brendan Donovan 27 pre-arb 153 3.2 0.8 +12.5
Willson Contreras 32 FA-elig 84 2.7 18.0 -6.9
Ryan Helsley 29 arb 65 2.3 3.8 +5.6
Iván Herrera 24 pre-arb 72 2.1 0.7 +8.1
Miles Mikolas 35 FA-elig 32 1.9 18.5 -10.4
Andre Pallante 25 pre-arb 29 1.8 0.8 +6.7
Lars Nootbaar 26 arb 109 1.7 0.8 +6.4
Kyle Gibson 36 FA-elig 30 1.4 12.0 -6.1
Lance Lynn 37 FA-elig 23 1.3 10.0 -4.5
Paul Goldschmidt 36 FA-elig 154 1.2 26.0 -21.2
Michael Siani 24 pre-arb 124 1.1 0.7 +3.7
Erick Fedde↔ CHW 31 FA-elig 10 0.8 2.4 +1.1
Ryan Fernandez 26 pre-arb 62 0.7 0.7 +2.4
Alec Burleson 25 pre-arb 152 0.7 0.8 +2.0
Michael McGreevy 23 – 4 0.6 0.0 +2.5
Pedro Pagés 25 pre-arb 68 0.5 0.7 +1.2
Matthew Liberatore 24 pre-arb 60 0.4 0.7 +0.7
Kyle Leahy 27 pre-arb 33 0.3 0.7 +0.7
Nolan Gorman 24 pre-arb 107 0.3 0.8 +0.6
Andrew Kittredge 34 FA-elig 74 0.3 2.6 -1.4
John King 29 arb 56 0.3 1.0 +0.1
Shawn Armstrong↔ CHC 33 FA-elig 11 0.2 0.4 +0.3
Chris Roycroft 27 pre-arb 27 0.1 0.7 -0.2
Brandon Crawford 37 FA-elig 29 0.1 2.0 -1.5
Steven Matz 33 FA-elig 12 0.0 12.5 -12.3
Adam Kloffenstein 23 – 1 0.0 0.0 +0.1
Gordon Graceffo 24 – 2 0.0 0.0 +0.0
Ryan Loutos 25 pre-arb 3 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Nick Robertson↔ TOR 25 pre-arb 8 -0.0 0.7 -0.8
Thomas Saggese 22 – 18 -0.0 0.1 -0.3
JoJo Romero 27 arb 65 -0.1 0.9 -1.2
Luken Baker 27 pre-arb 21 -0.1 0.7 -1.2
Tommy Pham↔ CHW 36 – 23 -0.2 0.4 -1.1
Riley O'Brien 29 arb 8 -0.2 0.7 -1.5
Matt Carpenter 38 FA-elig 59 -0.2 0.7 -1.6
Zack Thompson 26 pre-arb 5 -0.3 0.8 -1.9
Victor Scott II 23 pre-arb 53 -0.4 0.7 -2.6
Giovanny Gallegos 32 FA-elig 21 -0.5 5.8 -7.7
Jordan Walker 22 pre-arb 51 -0.6 0.7 -3.5
José Fermín 25 pre-arb 45 -0.7 0.7 -3.8
Dylan Carlson↔ TBR 25 arb 59 -0.9 1.4 -5.1

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.