Cardinals hire Cerfolio to oversee player development, performance

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals continued the makeover of their front office Tuesday by hiring Robert Cerfolio away from the Cleveland Guardians to serve as their assistant general manager in charge of player development and performance.

Cerfolio began his career in Cleveland in 2015 as an intern in its baseball operations and player development department.

Last month, the Cardinals announced that Chaim Bloom would replace longtime president of baseball operations John Mozeliak after the 2025 season. The expectation is that Bloom would spend the upcoming offseason and season overseeing a reset of the Cardinals' player development program after they missed the playoffs for the second consecutive year.

Mozeliak has been general manager in St. Louis since 2007. He was elevated to president of baseball operations in 2017.

The Cardinals said that Cerfolio would hire a farm director and director of performance while announcing several in-house promotions. Matt Bayer will become senior director of baseball development, Kevin Seats the senior director of analytics, DC MacLea the manager of video technology and Brady Hall the player development video and tech coordinator.

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