NOTE: This version of the roster matrix is no longer current.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 It should now be considered a historical reference document.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
Follow me on Twitter.
Follow The Cardinal Nation Blog on Facebook.