Cardinals organization roster matrix: 2012-2013 off-season

NOTE: This version of the roster matrix is no longer current. It reflects the changes from the end of the 2012 regular season to the start of 2013 spring training. It should now be considered a historical reference document. For the active roster matrix starting with 2013 spring training, click here.

With the 2012-2013 off-season now underway, it is time for another refresh of the St. Louis Cardinals system roster matrix. This version will reflect the changes made from the end of the 2012 regular season until 2013 spring training. The previous matrix reflects the rosters as they evolved from short-season ball through the conclusion of the 2012 season.

If you are new to the blog and not familiar with the Cardinals organization roster matrix, here is quick summary:

As the 2012 regular season ended, the St. Louis Cardinals had 294 players under contract from top to bottom, including a full 40-man roster. The matrix places each one at his end-of-season assigned level in the system as well as by position. It is kept updated daily or as transactions occur.

Nowhere else will you find this current and comprehensive single-page view of the entire Cardinals organization.

Don’t be concerned about the order of the players’ names within a team. It doesn’t signify anything.

The 25-man roster for St. Louis is not in place during the off-season. Pay more attention to the players on the 40-man roster that are called out in bold.

At the end are currently inactive and unassigned players.

Full team rosters and player profiles at The Cardinal Nation

Remember that to get detailed profile information on every single one of these 294 Cardinals players, simply check out their free player profiles freshly updated now at The Cardinal Nation.com / Scout.com. You can see bios, photos, videos, articles, news items, links to current season and career stats and much more – everything you need to know about a player in one place.

Click on the following links to be taken to one of the nine team pages at The Cardinal Nation. You can also see rosters and player profiles back to 2004:

Full-season clubs
St. Louis Cardinals
Memphis Redbirds
Springfield Cardinals
Palm Beach Cardinals
Peoria Chiefs

Short-season clubs
State College Spikes
Johnson City Cardinals
Gulf Coast League Cardinals
Dominican Summer League Cardinals

Once on a team page, just click on a player’s name to be taken to his individual profile page for that year. For example, here is Shelby Miller’s 2012 Memphis profile.

Looking ahead and back

Now that you’ve found this page once, remember one of three ways to get back here. Bookmark the page, type “Roster Matrix” in the dark blue search box at the upper right or use the dropdown menu at the top of the page: “Players/Staff” > “Depth Charts/Roster Matrix”.

For details behind past rosters and transactions, check out the earlier versions of the Cardinals organization roster matrix as follows.

Link to previous matrices: Jan–March 2009, April 2009, May 2009, June 2009, July 2009-February 2010, Spring camp 2010, Opening season 2010, First half 2010, Short-season 2010, 2010-11 Off-season, 2011 spring training, 2011 regular season, 2011 short-season, 2011-2012 off-season, 2012 spring training, 2012 regular season, 2012 short season

Transactions

10/9: New matrix. Organization total: 294 players.

10/9: 3 retired players removed: Spr OF Jake Shaffer, PB OF Aaron Luna, SC P Bob Revesz. New organization total: 291 players.

10/9: 19 players released. Mem: C Nick Derba, P Jess Todd; Spr: P Chase Reid; PB: P Ryan Copeland, IFs Packy Elkins, Jeremy Patton, OF Roberto Reyes; SC: Ps Matt Rein, Kevin Jacob, Dyllon Nuernberg, Jose Pasen, C Kolby Byrd, IF Garrett Wittels; JC Ps Cole Brand, Roberto Canache, Nick Gillung, 1B Michael Knox; GCL P Ramon Ulacio, OF Corderious Dodd. New organization total: 272 players.

10/30: Mem P Jorge Rondon onto 40-man roster. P Kyle McClellan off 60-day DL. StL Ps Kyle Lohse, Brian Fuentes; 1B Lance Berkman become free agents. New organization total: 269 players.

10/31: 11/12 minor league free agents. Mem: C Roberto Espinoza, IFs Jose Garcia, Eugenio Velez, Lance Zawadzki, OFs Cedric Hunter, Lou Montanez, Matt Young; Spr: C Kleininger Teran (previously removed from matrix), OFs Ray Kruml, Jamie Romak; PB C Luis De La Cruz, OF Raniel Rosario. New organization total: 258 players.

11/2: C’s Steven Hill, Bryan Anderson, RHR Adam Reifer outrighted to Memphis. Anderson becomes free agent. DSL OF Henry Alvarado signed. New organization total: 258 players.

11/13: RHR Kyle McClellan released. C Rob Johnson signed to Mem contract with MLB spring invite. OF Jimmy Parque acquired. New organization total: 259 players.

11/17: OF Justin Christian signed to Mem contract with MLB spring invite. New organization total: 260 players.

11/19: Mem RHS Brandon Dickson released to sign in Japan. New organization total: 259 players.

11/20: Four pitchers added to 40-man: Michael Blazek, Keith Butler, Eric Fornataro, Kevin Siegrist. Spr OF Jamie Romak re-signed. New organization total: 260 players.

11/21: DSL RHP Yeison Medina signed as free agent. New organization total: 261 players.

12/5: LHR Randy Choate agreed to major league contract. New organization total: 262 players.

12/6: IF Matt Cerda and LHS Jay Voss added in minor league Rule 5 Draft. C Steven Hill taken by Oakland. New organization total: 263 players.

12/10: PB RHS Todd McInnis retired. New organization total: 262 players.

12/12: StL 2B Skip Schumaker traded to LA Dodgers for AA SS Jake Lemmerman.

12/13: Dominican RHP Alex Reyes signed. New organization total: 263 players.

12/14: Free agent UT Ty Wigginton signed. QC RHR Ricky Martinez traded to Houston. PB RHR Drew Benes released. New organization total: 262 players.

12/19: C J.R. Towles signed to minors contract with MLB spring invite. New organization total: 263 players.

1/25: PB UT Alan Ahmady and Peo RHR Ethan Cole released. New organization total: 261 players.

1/29: FA IF Ronny Cedeno signs 1-yr MLB contract. Mem LHR Barret Browning designated for assignment. 16 MLB spring training NRIs announced. New organization total: 262 players.

2/1: DSL players released: Juan Fresa, Eduardo Celestino, Jose Pena, Alejandro Mejia, Junior Agustin. Signed Julio Mateo, Dionauris Pena. Garrett Wittels re-signed. New organization total: 260 players.

2/11: OF/1B Chad Huffman signed. New organization total: 261 players.

The St. Louis Cardinals Organization Roster Matrix (effective 2/11/13)

25-man (29) 40-man (40)
SP RP C 1B 2B SS 3B OF
C Carpenter Boggs Molina Craig Descalso Furcal Freese Holliday
Ja Garcia (L) J Kelly T Cruz
Kozma M Carpenter Jay
Lynn Rosenthal


Cedeno
Wigginton
Beltran
Wainwright Motte




Robinson
Westbrook Rzepczynski (L)



Chambers

Mujica






Salas






S Miller






Choate (L)






































Memphis (23)
SP RP C 1B 2B SS 3B OF
Gast (L) (ST invite) Browning (L) (ST invite) R Johnson (ST invite) Peterson R Jackson Cerda Swauger
Additon (L) Rondon Towles (ST invite) Adams Christian (ST invite)
Lyons (L) (ST invite) Blazek Huffman
Voss (L) E Sanchez
Reifer
Greenwood (L)
Gaub (L)
Cleto
Freeman (L)
Marte
Springfield (29)
SP RP C 1B 2B SS 3B OF
C Martinez (ST invite) Butler A Perez (ST invite) Scruggs Wong (ST invite) G Garcia (ST invite) Curtis Melker
Maness (ST invite) Hooker Tartamella Albitz O’Neill
Siegrist (L) Delgado Lemmerman Pham
Ri Castillo Wacha (ST invite) Taveras (ST invite)
McGregor Wright (L) Parque
Swagerty Fornataro Romak
Whiting K Thomas
Gorgen
Palm Beach (23)
SP RP C 1B 2B SS 3B OF
Sherriff (L) T Miller Klein Jon Rodriguez S Rodriguez (ST invite) Gil Rahmatulla Edmondson
Corrigan Nazario (L) Stanley (ST invite) Pritchard Swinson
Hald (L) Miranda (L) Ramsey
Ferrara (L) Russell
Blair A Lucas
Kiekhefer (L)
Almarante
Billbrough
Peoria (29)
SP RP C 1B 2B SS 3B OF
Jenkins Renfro (L) J Castillo Bergin Lu Mateo M Williams Piscotty An Garcia
H Hernamdez (L) Llorens Walsh Melchionda Martini
Villanueva (L) Cornelius (L) D Medina
Gaviglio Barraclough V Hill
Polanco Stock Walton
Watson Wyatt Longmire
Harris Y Castillo Apelian
Heyer
State College (30)
P P(2012 added) C 1B 2B SS 3B OF
Baker Cooney (L) Montero (ST invite) R DeLaCruz B Valera Mejia Wisdom Young
Melling (L) Cuda Keener Washington Wilson Caldwell S Ramos
Creath Helisek (L) Rasmus Stienstra R Williams
B Freeman (L) O’Shea (L) Lewis Vargas Popkins
Scanio
Stoppelman (L)
C Thomas
Aldrete
Wittels
Johnson City (30)
P P(2012 added) C 1B 2B SS 3B OF
S Lopez Sabatino (L) Ehrlich (ST invite) Schaffer Le Mateo C Valera C Kelly Jeffries
S Garcia Shaban Velazco Martin McElroy
Bautista Donofrio Lizcano Ro Castillo
DeLeon Petrick Deol
Aguilar Booden Tilson
Tuivailala Rauh
Gerdel Lee
Paulino
J Lucas
Mills
Gulf Coast (27)
P P(2012 added) C 1B 2B SS 3B OF
Villegas Foody (L) Bean Almaraz L Perez Barbuena R Garcia Acevedo
DeLosSantos Machuca (L) J Gomez R Medina Argenal
F Flores Gallardo Wick Peoples-Walls Capellan
Perdomo Perry Wiley Bryant
Paredes Jones Y Gonzalez
Caballero
Mitchem
DSL (41)
SP RP C 1B 2B SS 3B OF
Salazar A DeLaCruz (L) L Cruz Rblys Reyes Pina Araujo
D Martinez Escudero Godoy E Alvarez Franco
J Perez I Brito (L) Ripoll E Sosa (2013) D Sanchez
D Perez (L) F Gonzalez J Lopez (2013) Torres
Silva (L) Baez D Pena (2013) Cerdas
Arias Vallejo Alvarado (2013)
Medrano (2013) Negrette (L) Luna (2013)
Y Medina (2013) J Mateo (2013) Bandes (2013)
A Reyes (2013) J Lara Sierra (2013)
Parra
Jor Rodriguez
R Santos
DeLaRosa
Changarotty (2013)

Codes
(DL): injured – on the disabled list
(I): injured and assigned to Extended Spring Training
(TI): temporary inactive list
(SL): suspended list
(RL): restricted list
(MIL): military list
(TO): tryout player not under contract
(FA): free agent signee
(xx): round 2012 drafted player was selected
(L) left-handed pitcher
bold: on the Cardinals’ 40-man roster
(#+#): for teams, the number of active players on the roster plus number of inactive/not under contract (DL+TI+SL+RL+MIL+TO) players

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