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A's GM Beane rescued Hatteberg
By C. Trent Rosecrans
Post staff reporter
Scott Hatteberg has had a productive career as a first baseman after converting
from catcher on the advice of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane.
OAKLAND, Calif. - If it weren't for Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane,
Scott Hatteberg doesn't know what he'd be doing today.
"I could be working at a Blockbuster somewhere," said Hatteberg, who played
with the A's from 2002-05.
Instead, Hatteberg signed as a free agent with the Reds before the 2006 season.
Hatteberg was a catcher over parts of seven seasons with Boston, but suffered a
serious arm injury that limited his ability to throw. He was traded from Boston
to Colorado in December of 2001, but wasn't offered arbitration by the Rockies
and became a free agent.
That's when he was approached by Beane, who wanted to turn him into a first
baseman.
"It was his idea," Hatteberg said of the move to first. "He sold me on a bunch
of at-bats and I couldn't ask for more than the opportunity and then I had to
learn a whole new position."
Six seasons later, Hatte- berg has played more than 200 more games at first
base than he did catching in the big leagues.
"I'd never played first base (before coming to Oakland)," Hatteberg said. "If
it weren't for that, I'd have had to go and find a job as a catcher. I couldn't
throw so I know it would have been hard to be a competitive catcher, you have
to be able to do that and I lost that part of the my game. I owe a lot to him
for giving me this opportunity."
Beane appreciated Hatteberg's approach at the plate, and the experiment to turn
Hatteberg into a first baseman was the basis for a chapter in the 2003 best-
seller "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis about Beane.
Hatteberg said teammate Adam Dunn even bought the book just so he could read
that chapter and make fun of him.
"I liked the part about his wife hitting him fungoes," Dunn said. "That's the
only good part about that book."
Hatteberg said he talked to Beane on Tuesday, but sees him more often than that
because Beane bought a house in the same Bend, Ore., neighborhood where
Hatteberg and his family live.
The A's had an option on Hatteberg for 2005, but didn't pick it up, making him
a free agent again, which is when he came to Cincinnati.
"They had Dan Johnson coming up (at first base), and with the Oakland A's it's
all about turnover, that's how they keep the payroll down," Hatteberg said.
"They had him coming up and he's going to be something. It was the move I would
have made, it was obvious. It was time for me to move on and that was that. It
wasn't a move that shocked me."
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