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Chris Carpenter kept his workout in the bullpen Sunday short and crisp so that he could be activated today in Arizona and available to throw Tuesday in his new role. For the remainder of the season, he'll be a reliever. Carpenter has not made a relief appearance since 2000, when he pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays. In his professional career, he has made only 19 relief appearances, and seven of them were in his 10-12 season with the Blue Jays in 2000. All 97 of his appearances as a Cardinal have been starts.

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September 2, 2008  07:06 AM ET
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Well, it's a given that the Cardinals need a bullpen but Carpenter? That's rather stupid, IMO but hey I'm thisclose to giving up on them for the season anyway

September 2, 2008  07:23 AM ET
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He doesn't have the endurance built up for going 6 to 7 innings. He's coming back really fast from this surgery. I was hoping they'd do this a month ago. Give us back all the blown saves and late run loses and we're challenging the Cubs for the division lead instead of seeing the wild card slip away.

September 2, 2008  07:35 AM ET
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I hope this works.

September 2, 2008  08:39 AM ET
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I tend to agree with this decision if he's going to pitch the rest of the way at all. I don't see any reason to push him to go 6-7 innings as a starter....the potential downside of that outweighs the positives.

At this point, Carpeneter's biggest value to the Cards is as an April 2009 rotation member. They shouldn't do anything with him now that would jeopardize that at all. Let him come out of the bullpen and pitch 1-2 innings

September 2, 2008  08:53 AM ET
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If anyone can help him pull this off it's Duncan. The guy's a miracle worker.

September 2, 2008  09:10 AM ET
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Probally will not work but Cards need to do something NOW..

September 2, 2008  08:47 PM ET
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I don't think this is a temporary or permanent situation - shut him down and wait for next year !!!!

 
September 3, 2008  01:45 AM ET
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I really don't know why this doesn't happen more often. Everybody complains about needing bullpen help and you rarely see starters put in the pen to help. Surely there must be a bunch of starters with 2 quality pitches that would be effective from the bullpen especially for a contender down the stretch.

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