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Springfield News-Leader: Carpenter back home at third base for St. Louis Cardinals
Kary Booher, News-Leader
JUPITER, Fla. – All those afternoons in front of the empty seats at Hammons Field now make sense. The endless grounders. His then-manager spotting a flaw and demanding a correction.
How time flies. That was a short, four years ago — back when he starred as the Springfield Cardinals' third baseman, just before Matt Carpenter would lead sort of a nomadic life.
Beaten out for the club's last roster spot by Daniel Descalso, he walked out of these very grounds here at the St. Louis Cardinals spring training complex in 2011 and vowed to market himself as a utility guy. Which he did the next season, showing an ability to play the outfield and finding his way to the big-league roster.
A year ago, he even wrapped his arms around the thought of becoming St. Louis' everyday second baseman — he had never played the position — and not only won the role but starred in the leadoff job as well.
Now look who's come full circle, back home at third base. ...
http://www.news-leader.com/story/sports/mlb/cardinals/2014/03/24/carpenter-back-home-at-third-base-for-st-louis-cardinals/6853855/
Kary Booher, News-Leader
JUPITER, Fla. – All those afternoons in front of the empty seats at Hammons Field now make sense. The endless grounders. His then-manager spotting a flaw and demanding a correction.
How time flies. That was a short, four years ago — back when he starred as the Springfield Cardinals' third baseman, just before Matt Carpenter would lead sort of a nomadic life.
Beaten out for the club's last roster spot by Daniel Descalso, he walked out of these very grounds here at the St. Louis Cardinals spring training complex in 2011 and vowed to market himself as a utility guy. Which he did the next season, showing an ability to play the outfield and finding his way to the big-league roster.
A year ago, he even wrapped his arms around the thought of becoming St. Louis' everyday second baseman — he had never played the position — and not only won the role but starred in the leadoff job as well.
Now look who's come full circle, back home at third base. ...
http://www.news-leader.com/story/sports/mlb/cardinals/2014/03/24/carpenter-back-home-at-third-base-for-st-louis-cardinals/6853855/
