2026 Season · KC Roster
Busch Stadium, St. Louis, MO — opened 2006 · 44,494 seats. 11× champions · last 2011.
Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the St. Louis Cardinals from profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.
MLB players who spent their entire encyclopedia-attributed career with the St. Louis Cardinals — ranked by seasons of service. Tenure is the span the corpus attributes.
MLB players who wore the St. Louis Cardinals crest along the way but played for three or more franchises in all — the well-traveled careers this club was one chapter of. The count is distinct canonical franchises.
Every position room St. Louis Cardinals has passed down, steadiest first. The 2B room is their most stable — 6 holders across 79 years, a new one every 10.8 on average.
Four franchise-defining careers: VAL weighted by attributed tenure share, with a bounded bump for verified Hall of Fame and recorded award evidence.
568 player-season slots overlap another club's recorded span and are credited to neither (16.1% of considered span evidence).
Monument Timeline — who held it, season by season
1882–2026 · 3 handoffs
The holder in a season is the player with the most accumulated era-adjusted value (VAL) across attributed franchise seasons through that year — whole seasons only, never a depth-chart claim. A claim needs 3+ attributed seasons; unsettled through 1883. Relocated eras carry forward with the franchise.
Most prominent 8 of 1012 shown · all 1012 P →
Most prominent 8 of 252 shown · all 252 C →
Most prominent 8 of 117 shown · all 117 1B →
Most prominent 8 of 146 shown · all 146 2B →
Most prominent 8 of 149 shown · all 149 3B →
Most prominent 8 of 151 shown · all 151 SS →
Most prominent 8 of 414 shown · all 414 OF →
Most prominent 8 of 9 shown · all 9 PH →
Stadium, market-population, title and handle data are curated public facts (Wikipedia/Census/official league facts). Fan Interest, Barometer and reach tier are transparently derived from those facts — weighted (market 0.4, venue 0.2, titles 0.25, heritage 0.15), min-max within MLB — derived structural proxy, not a survey. No fan survey, sentiment scrape, or follower count is used.
+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.
Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1882–2025 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.
+471 more one-club men with the franchise.
+1,278 more well-traveled players who wore the crest.
140 seasons — roster, team totals and best players by VAL for each.
Best league-relative tenures in St. Louis Cardinals history — OPS+ / ERA+ vs each season's own league (100 = average), counting only seasons with the club. Park-unadjusted.
Hitters · OPS+
Pitchers · ERA+