Alyson Footer of MLB.com tweets that the St. Louis Cardinals have acquired third baseman Pedro Feliz and from the Houston Astros in exchange for pitcher David Carpenter.

The Cardinals were in need of third base depth to compensate for the injury to David Freese.

Team	Acquires
St. Louis Cardinals	3B Pedro Feliz Cash
Houston Astros	RHP David Carpenter

Feliz, 35, was hitting .222/.244/.312 with 4 home runs with the Astros. He signed a one-year, $4.5 million contract with the Astros in December

Carpenter, 25, was originally a 12th round (376th overall) pick of the Cardinals in the June 2006 First-Year Player Draft. He was originally a catcher, but was converted to a pitcher in the middle of 2008. He was named the 2009 Quad Cities River Bandits Pitcher of the Year (Single-A Midwest League). Carpenter is 5-3 with a 2.36 ERA for Palm Beach Cardinals, the High-A team in the Florida State League. Ben Badler of Baseball America says Carpenter is a fringy/org-type reliever with a 91-95 mph fastball and a below average breaking ball.