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Dodgers sign journeyman Tatis
Eight-year veteran, who sat out 2005 and 2004 seasons before playing with Orioles last year, will try to make team as a utility player.

The Dodgers signed journeyman Fernando Tatis to a minor league contract today and invited him to spring training. Tatis has played third base most of his career but reinvented himself as a utility player last season, playing five positions in 28 games for the Baltimore Orioles.

Tatis, an eight-year veteran who sat out the 2005 and 2004 seasons, is best remembered by Dodgers followers for the two grand slams he hit in one inning against Chan Ho Park on April 23, 1999. He is the only player in major league history to accomplish the feat.

Tatis, 32, hit 34 home runs and drove in 107 runs that season for the St. Louis Cardinals but never came close to those numbers again. He hit 18 homers in 2000 before suffering a groin injury and it appeared he was out of baseball for good when the Tampa Bay Devil Rays cut him during spring training in 2004.

But last season Tatis batted .250 with two home runs after being promoted in July from triple-A. He played first base, second base, third base, left field and right field.

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