Hatty being shopped

Providence Journal is reporting that the A's offered Hatteberg to the Red Sox but they had no interest as John Olerud was recently signed to a minor league deal.

The fact that the A's are shopping Hatty indicates that they want to bring up Johnson to replace him at first-base. Of course many an A's fan can tell you that Hatteberg's "fall of the face of the Earth" September should have been a sign for the A's to cut bait and bring up Dan Johnson.

I doubt that any team will be willing to take Hatty purely as a salary-dump unless there is a team that has a starting pitcher who could replace Saarloos spot in the rotation yet bump Blanton to the fifth spot. Or they could trade him to the Phillies for lefty reliever Rheal Cormier who makes the same amount as Hatty but fills a need for a second lefty in the bullpen. If you look at his stats, you can see that his home vs road splits are huge in difference. Later I'll look up his Lefty road splits to get a better idea on his abilities.

UPDATE: Here are his lefty road splits...

Date	Hits	Runs	ER	HR	BB	K	GO	FO	# of Pitches	# of Strikes	Batters Faced
4/11/2005	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	1
4/13/2005	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	5	2
4/24/2005	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1
4/25/2005	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	10	6	2
4/27/2005	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	8	5	2
5/6/2005	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	1
	1	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	31	19	9

The issue here is that Cormier has had allowed fewer earned runs at home and better vs. righty batters that one has to wonder whether this year is an anomly as far as statistics are concerned. It should also be said that he has given up 13 more home runs at home compared to on the road in the last 3 years.