NOTE: As of 4/3/14, this version of the roster matrix is no longer current. It reflects the changes from the start of 2014 spring training until the opening of the minor league season. It should now be considered a historical reference document. For the active roster matrix for the 2014 regular season, click here.
With minor leaguers reporting to Jupiter, Florida for spring training, it is time for another refresh of the St. Louis Cardinals system roster matrix. This version will reflect the changes made from the start of 2014 spring training until the opening of the regular season. The previous matrix reflects the rosters as they evolved from the conclusion of the 2013 season through the entire 2013-2014 off-season.
If you are new to the blog and not familiar with the Cardinals organization roster matrix, here is quick summary:
As 2014 spring training opened, the St. Louis Cardinals had 273 players under contract from top to bottom, including 39 players on the 40-man roster. The latter are called out in bold. The matrix places all 273 at his 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 has no relative significance.
Note that the 25-man roster for St. Louis and any other club is not in place during the off-season. Players generally remain on the rosters at which they finished 2013. Pay more attention to which camps players are assigned.
Full team rosters and player profiles at The Cardinal Nation
Remember that to get detailed profile information on every single one of these 273 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 the link directly to Oscar Taveras’ 2014 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, 2012-2013 off-season, 2013 spring training, 2013 regular season, 2013 short season, 2013-2014 off-season.
Transactions
3/1: New matrix. Organization total: 273 players.
3/2: RHP Jordan Swagerty reassigned to minor league camp. (58 players remain in major league camp.)
3/9: LHP Marco Gonzales reassigned to minor league camp. Free agent SS Aledmys Diaz signed to MLB contract. New organization total: 274 players. (58 players remain in major league camp.)
3/10: Three optioned to minors camp: RHP Angel Castro, OFs Mike O’Neill and Rafael Ortega. Six reassigned to minors camp: RHPs Boone Whiting and Kurt Heyer, 3B Patrick Wisdom, Cs Casey Rasmus, Cody Stanley and Carson Kelly. (49 remain in MLB camp)
3/13: Three optioned out: OF Oscar Taveras, C Audry Perez, RHR Eric Fornataro. (46 remain in MLB camp)
3/14: NRI RHP Sam Gaviglio reassigned to minor league camp. (45 remain in MLB camp)
3/16: RHP Scott McGregor added to major league camp as an NRI. NRI RHP Zach Petrick, OF James Ramsey reassigned to minor league camp. (44 in MLB camp) LHP Ben Freeman, RHP Amauris Capellan released. New organization total: 272 players.
3/17: LHPs Tim Cooney, Lee Stoppelman, C Travis Tartamella reassigned to minor league camp. (41 in MLB camp)
3/19: LHP Tyler Lyons optioned out. (40 in MLB camp)
3/20: RHP Brady Adamek released. New organization total: 271 players.
3/23: LHP Sam Freeman, OF Joey Butler, SS Aledmys Diaz, IF Greg Garcia optioned out. IF Luis Mateo reassigned to minor league camp (35 in MLB camp). RHP Angel Castro off 40-man roster.
3/24: OF Randal Grichuk optioned to Mem. (34 in MLB camp). PB OF Ronny Gil released. New organization total: 270 players.
3/25: Spr 2B Colin Walsh and JC OF Lance Jeffries released. New organization total: 268 players.
3/26: FA RHR David Aardsma signed to minor league deal with NRI. New organization total: 269 players. (35 in MLB camp)
3/28: OF Joey Butler outrighted. RHP Keith Butler named to opening roster. Optioned to Mem: RHR Jorge Rondon. Reassigned to Mem: RHR David Aardsma, RHS Scott McGregor, C Ed Easley, 1B Xavier Scruggs, 3B Scott Moore, OF Stephen Piscotty. (28 in MLB camp)
3/29: Four releases: PB OF Nick Longmire, Peo 1B Jeremy Schaffer, 3B Trevor Martin, 1B/OF Jordan Walton. New organization total: 265 players.
3/30: Three StL players to 15-day DL: LHS Jaime Garcia, RHR Jason Motte, 2B Mark Ellis. Contract purchased from Mem: RHR Pat Neshek.
4/1: PB RHP Chris Corrigan retired. New organization total: 264 players.
The St. Louis Cardinals Organization Roster Matrix (effective 4/1/14)
| St. Louis (25+3) | 40-man (38) | ||||||
| SP | RP | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF |
| Wainwright | Siegrist (L) | Molina | Adams | Wong | Peralta | M Carpenter | Holliday |
| J Kelly | Rosenthal | T Cruz | Descalso | Kozma | Jay | ||
| Lynn | C Martinez | Ellis (DL) |
Robinson | ||||
| S Miller | Motte (DL) |
Bourjos | |||||
| Wacha | Maness | Craig | |||||
| Ja Garcia (L DL) | Choate (L) | ||||||
| K Butler | |||||||
| Neshek | |||||||
| Memphis (29) | |||||||
| SP | RP | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF |
| Gast (L) | Rondon | Tartamella (NRI) | Scruggs (NRI) | G Garcia (opt) |
Miclat | Curtis | Taveras (opt) |
| McGregor (NRI) | Fornataro (opt) |
A Perez (opt) |
Albitz | Moore (NRI) | Pham | ||
| Whiting (NRI) | Stoppelman (NRI) | Easley (NRI) | Swauger | ||||
| Lyons (L opt) | Aardsma (NRI) | Ramsey (NRI) | |||||
| Castro (opt) |
Almarante (NRI) | J Butler (opt) |
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| Freeman (L opt) | O’Neill (opt) |
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| Greenwood (L) | Piscotty (NRI) | ||||||
| Grichuk (opt) |
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| Springfield (19) | |||||||
| SP | RP | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF |
| Ferrara (L) | Baker | Rasmus (NRI) | Smith | Lu Mateo (NRI) | M Williams | S Rodriguez | |
| Blair | Wyatt | Stanley (NRI) | A Diaz (opt) | Ortega (opt) |
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| Cooney (L NRI) | Wright (L) | Melker | |||||
| Petrick (NRI) | Miranda (L) | ||||||
| Cornelius (L) | Kiekhefer (L) | ||||||
| Palm Beach (26) | |||||||
| SP | RP | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF |
| Heyer (NRI) | Shaban | Montero | Jon Rodriguez | Wilson | Mejia | Stienstra | Tilson |
| Gaviglio (NRI) | Nazario (L) | J Castillo | Wisdom (NRI) | An Garcia | |||
| Hald (L) | Swagerty (NRI) | Popkins | |||||
| Melling (L) | A Lucas | ||||||
| Sherriff (L) | Barraclough | ||||||
| Jenkins | T Lee | ||||||
| Cuda | Billbrough | ||||||
| Gonzales (L NRI) | Stock | ||||||
| Peoria (21) | |||||||
| SP | RP | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF |
| C Jones | Sabatino (L) | Keener | B Valera | Vargas | McElroy | ||
| Perry | Llorens | Velazco | Herrera | Martini | |||
| S Garcia | C Thomas | Ehrlich | Caldwell | McElroy | |||
| Mayers | Scanio | Neil | |||||
| Helisek (L) | Donofrio | ||||||
| Tuivailala | |||||||
| State College (32+2) | |||||||
| P | P | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF |
| Booden | Brookshire (L) | A DeLeon | Washington | Katz | Wiley (SL) | Ro Castillo | |
| J Lucas | Herget | C Kelly (NRI) | Voit | Schulze | Young | ||
| Bautista | Petree | Rosenberg | Ustariz | C Valera | Ramos | ||
| V DeLeon | Reed (L) | Bosco | |||||
| Rauh | Pierce (SL) | L Perez | |||||
| Harris | Ar Reyes | Bryan | |||||
| Aldrete | Webb | Peoples-Walls | |||||
| Polanco | Carlow | ||||||
| Barkley | |||||||
| Johnson City (25) | |||||||
| P | P | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF |
| F Baez | Anderson | Bean | Ringo | R Reyes | Altobelli | Acevedo | |
| I Brito (L) | Holback | F Rodriguez | R Garcia | Pedroza | Vigo | ||
| Al Reyes | Lomascolo (L) | Wick | |||||
| Gerdel | Loraine | Lacy | |||||
| D Martinez | McKnight | ||||||
| Perdomo | B Lee | ||||||
| Paredes | Grana | ||||||
| GCL (33) | |||||||
| P | P | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF |
| Villegas | Escudero | L Cruz | Stone | Collymore | Pina | R Medina | Ray |
| McKinney (L) | Silva (L) | J Gomez | C Rivera | E Alvarez | Torres | ||
| Kaminsky (L) | D Perez (L) | Godoy | Mercado | Bautista | |||
| Farinaro | J Perez | E Rodriguez | Asbury | ||||
| F Flores | Salazar | ||||||
| Hawkins (L) | S Lopez (L) | ||||||
| Foody (L) | Caballero | ||||||
| Frey | Gallardo | ||||||
| Nielsen | |||||||
| Higgins | |||||||
| DSL (49) | |||||||
| SP | RP | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF |
| Arias | A DeLaCruz (L) | Ripoll | D Gomez | Y Sanchez | E Sosa | J Baez | Sierra |
| Parra | F Gonzalez | D Pena | R Encarnacion | D Paulino | J De La Cruz | Franco | |
| Medrano | Gavin (L) | J Lopez | L Flores | Cordoba | Alvarado | ||
| Jor Rodriguez | V Encarnacion | Ortega | Linares | R Luna | |||
| R Santos | J Lara | Cotes | Bandes | ||||
| J Mateo | Urena (L) | Talavera | |||||
| D Gonzalez | Oca (L) | A Luna | |||||
| Alcantara | R Sanchez | J Rivera | |||||
| O Diaz | DeLaRosa | C Rodriguez | |||||
| Vallejo | C Luis | ||||||
| Changarotty | |||||||
| Y Medina | |||||||
| Bennett | |||||||
| J Alvarez | |||||||
| Casadilla | |||||||
Codes
(NRI): Non-roster invitee to major league camp
(opt): 40-man players optioned out to minor league camp
(DL): injured – on the disabled list
(I): injured
(TI): temporary inactive list
(SL): suspended list
(RL): restricted list
(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) players
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