Scott Hatteburg was a huge success on the Boston Red Sox but an injury lead to his release. Scott was a catcher who threw out his arm and could no longer throw a ball to second base making him, to other teams, worthless. That is, to every other team but the Oakland A's. Scott had one of the best on-base percentages in the MLB, he was amazing at taking pitches and waiting for a good pitch to drive. Usually the Oakland A's wouldn't have been able to afford a player like Scott, but because of his arm injury they could get him for less than a million. Oakland focused on offense and planned on having a good enough offense that defense wouldn't matter, but even the A's weren't going to have a catcher that couldn't throw. So they signed Scott Hatteburg and then told him that he would be their first baseman, a postition that he had never played before, even as a kid. Scott's greatest fear was having a ball hit anywhere at him, but with the help of Ron Washington, the Oakland A's fielding coach, he got better and mid-season was thought of as a good fielding first baseman. But Scott was on the team for his bat. He produced like the A's wanted him to and hit the game-winning homerun for Oakland's 20th straight game. Scott Hatteburg dominated the MLB, which made every team shake their heads that they had ruled him as useless.
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