St. Louis Cardinals General Manager Walt Jocketty was relieved of his duties today, according to an anonymous source. The Cardinals finished third in the division a year after winning the World Series, so his dismissal is justified. Not only that, he was unable to keep a solid team together last off season, losing several key players to teams in his division. Also, he was very quiet around the deadline, making no deals. Over his time with the Cardinals, he has made some good and bad deals:Date Traded To Received 11/28/94 Aldo Pecorilli
ATL Ramon Caraballo 12/07/94 Luis Alicea BOS Jeff McNeely, Nate Minchey 04/05/95 Kirk Bullinger, Bryan Eversgerd, Da Rond Stovall MON Ken Hill 04/09/95 Rheal Cormier, Mark Whiten BOS Cory Bailey, Scott Cooper 06/16/95 Todd Zeile, $ CHC Mike Morgan, Francisco Morales, Paul Torres 07/09/95 John Habyan ANA Mark Sweeney 07/27/95 Ken Hill CLE David Bell, Rick Heiserman, Pepe McNeal 08/25/95 Anton French ATL Jose Oliva 10/19/95 Marc Ronan MIL Mike Stefanski 12/04/95 Andre King CIN Luis Ordaz (CIN), Miguel Mejia (KCR)
12/14/95 Allen Watson, Rich DeLucia, Doug Creek SFG PTBNL (Chris Wimmer), Royce Clayton 01/09/96 Allen Battle, Carl Dale, Jay Witasick, Bret Wagner OAK Todd Stottlemyre 01/22/96 Bernard Gilkey NYM Erik Hiljus, Eric Ludwick, Yudith Orozio 02/13/96 Steve Montgomery OAK Dennis Eckersley 06/07/96 Tom Urbani, Miguel Inzunza DET Micah Franklin, Brian Maxcy 06/15/96 Pat Borders ANA Ben Van Ryn 12/16/96 Cory Bailey TEX David Chavarria 12/19/96 PTBNL (Rene Arocha) SFG Tom Lampkin 03/27/97 Keith Johns MIL PTBNL (Scotty Pace
06/13/97 Rich Batchelor, Danny Jackson, Mark Sweeney SDP Scott Livingstone, Phil Plantier, Fernando Valenzuela 07/31/97 Eric Ludwick, TJ Mathews, Blake Stein OAK Mark McGwire 11/10/97 Dmitri Young CIN Jeff Brantley 03/28/98 Rigo Beltran NYM Juan Acevedo 03/30/98 Craig Shipley ANA Chip Hale 06/10/98 Wayne Kirby NYM Shawn Gilbert 07/31/98 Royce Clayton, Todd Stottlemyre TEX PTBNL (Mark Little), Darren Oliver, Fernando Tatis 11/19/98 Jeff Brantley, Ron Gant, Cliff Politte PHI Ricky Bottalico, Garrett Stephenson 12/14/98 Armando Almanza, Braden Looper, Pablo Ozuna FLA Edgar Renteria 02/09/99 Sean Lowe CHW John Ambrose 03/30/99 John Frascatore ARI Clint Sodowsky 07/31/99 Shawon Dunston NYM Craig Paquette 08/24/99 Kent Mercker BOS Mike Matthews, David Benham# 11/11/99 Alberto Castillo, Matt DeWitt, Lance Painter TOR Pat Hentgen, Paul Spoljaric 11/16/99 Manuel Aybar, Brent Butler, Rich Croushore, Jose Jimenez COL Darryl Kile, Luther Hackman, Dave Veres 12/20/99 2 PTBNL (Eliezer Alfonzo, Matt Parker), Juan Acevedo MIL Fernando Vina 03/18/00 Joe McEwing NYM Jesse Orosco 03/23/00 Kent Bottenfield, Adam Kennedy ANA Jim Edmonds 07/29/00 Chris Richard, Mark Nussbeck BAL Mike Timlin, $ 07/31/00 Jose Leon BAL Will Clark, $ 12/14/00 Britt Reames, Fernando Tatis MON Dustin Hermanson, Steve Kline 07/03/01 Larry Sutton MIN Hanley Frias 07/31/01 Jason Christiansen SFG Kevin Joseph, $ 08/02/01 Ray Lankford, $ SDP Woody Williams 12/15/01 Dustin Hermanson BOS Dustin Brisson, Luis Garcia, Rick Asadoorian 06/11/02 PTBNL (Seth Davidson) MIN Warren Morris 07/11/02 Neil Simoneaux CLE Nerio Rodriguez 07/19/02 PTBNL (Coco Crisp), Luis Garcia CLE Chuck Finley 07/29/02 Placido Polanco, Mike Timlin, Bud Smith PHI Scott Rolen, Doug Nickle, $ 08/25/02 2 PTBNL (Jared Blasdell, Jason Karnuth) CHC Jeff Fassero 08/29/02 PTBNL (Mike Matthews), Chris Morris# MIL Jamey Wright, $ 12/15/02 PTBNL (Mike Wodnicki), Luther Hackman SDP Brett Tomko 08/22/03 Ben Julianel, Justin Pope NYY Sterling Hitchcock 08/27/03 2 PTBNL (Mike Crudale, John Novinsky) MIL Mike DeJean 11/21/03 Tino Martinez TBD PTBNL (John-Paul Davis#), Evan Rust 12/13/03 JD Drew, Eli Marrero ATL Jason Marquis, Ray King, Adam Wainwright 03/21/04 Matt Duff BOS Tony Womack 03/29/04 Kerry Robinson SDP Brian Hunter 04/04/04 Wilson Delgado NYM Roger Cedeno 05/07/04 Joe Horgan MON Benji DeQuin 08/06/04 2 PTBNL (Luis Martinez, Chris Narveson), Jason Burch COL Larry Walker 12/18/04 Danny Haren, Kiko Calero, Daric Barton OAK Mark Mulder 03/29/05 Mike Myers BOS Carlos De La Cruz#, Kevin Ool# 06/04/05 Javier Cardona CLE PTBNL (John Rodriguez) 12/07/05 Ray King COL Larry Bigbie, Aaron Miles 07/05/06 Terry Evans ANA Jeff Weaver, $ 07/30/06 Hector Luna CLE Ron Belliard 07/31/06 Rich Scalamandre ATL Jorge Sosa
He has made some good trades in the past to acquire Mark McGwire, Dennis Eckersley, Larry Walker, Mark Mulder, Adam Wainwright, and Scott Rolen, to name a few. He gave up J.D. Drew and Coco Crisp, but both haven't been amazing since leaving. However, he did trade Dan Haren and Daric Barton to acquire Mulder, and both are on the verge of being All-Stars. He's decent in making trades, and developing some good young players, but improving the team outside the organization is his struggle. He hasn't had much success in the draft, so there are some legitimate reasons to let him go. Possible replacements include Ruben Amaro Jr., Randy Bush, Mike Jorgensen, and others. During his time, the Cards have been to the playoffs six times, winning the World Series once. They also had seven straight winning seasons during his time.
UPDATE: John Mozeliak has been named interim GM.