General Manager
Rob Cerfolio was promoted to General Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals on November 5, 2026, after serving as the club’s Assistant General Manager, Player Development & Performance since October 2024. He was the first front office hire made by Chaim Bloom after Bloom joined the Cardinals’ baseball operations leadership. In his previous role, Cerfolio led the organization’s player development and performance efforts and contributed to player evaluation and acquisition discussions.
Prior to joining the Cardinals, Cerfolio spent 10 seasons with the Cleveland Guardians in a variety of scouting and player development roles. He began in 2015 as a Baseball Operations and Player Development intern and went on to serve as an Amateur Scouting Assistant (2016-18), Assistant, Player Development (2018-19), Assistant Director of Player Development (2019-21) and Director of Player Development (2022-24).
A native of Indian Springs, Alabama, Cerfolio graduated from John Carroll Catholic High School in Birmingham and pitched for Yale University from 2011-13. He was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 34th round of the 2013 MLB Draft, but did not sign and returned to Yale, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health in 2014. An arm injury kept him from pitching for the Bulldogs in his senior season. The son of a surgeon and a nurse, Cerfolio had pursued pre-medical studies before accepting Cleveland’s 2015 internship and beginning his career in baseball operations.
Cerfolio, 34, and his wife, Jaime, reside in St. Charles with their two children.