List of St. Louis Cardinals coaches

Coaches for various aspects of the game, including pitching, hitting, baserunning and fielding, give instruction to players to assist them in exercising the major disciplines that must be successfully executed to compete at the highest level.

St. Louis Cardinals coaches have played an important role in the team's eleven World Series titles.

Others with ten or more seasons include Mike González, Johnny Lewis, Marty Mason, Gaylen Pitts and Dave Ricketts.

Ray Blades, Ken Boyer, González, Johnny Keane, Jack Krol, Marty Marion, Bill McKechnie, Schoendienst and Harry Walker have all also managed the Cardinals.

Cardinals coaches who have been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum include Bob Gibson, McKechnie, Dave Parker and Schoendienst.

[2] He mentored a number of major league managers, including Sparky Anderson, Joe Torre, and Tony LaRussa.

Shown here in 1983 , Red Schoendienst served the Cardinals in some capacity in eight different decades, including as a coach and advisor from 1979 to 2018 .
José Oquendo is currently the longest-tenured on-field coach.
Buzzy Wares , pictured here during the 1946 World Series , spent the most seasons as an on-field coach for the Cardinals ( 1930 – 52 ).
Pitching coach Dave Duncan coached for the Cardinals with manager Tony La Russa from 1996 to 2011 .
Ken Boyer won an MVP , eleven All-Star selections, five Gold Glove awards , coached and managed for the Cardinals between 1955 and 1980 .
Mike González played or coached on five World Series champion Cardinals teams in the 1930s and 1940s.