{"id":10425,"date":"2015-07-22T12:06:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10425"},"modified":"2015-07-22T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:06:37","slug":"chris-johnson-hoping-braves-trade-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/07\/22\/chris-johnson-hoping-braves-trade-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Johnson hoping Braves trade him"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The trade market for Chris Johnson may be limited by that is not preventing the third baseman from letting his desires of a new location from being known.<\/p>\n

Owed $20 million on a contract that runs though the 2017 season, Johnson has seen limited playing time.<\/p>\n

“I’d be lying if I said I understood it,” Johnson told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. “It just seems like there was a point from the end of last year where, you know, the ship has kind of sailed, and it was just hard. So hopefully something [a trade] gets done.”<\/p>\n

Johnson is hitting just .258 on the season after earning himself a three year extension back in 2013 following a career best .321 campaign.<\/p>\n

“When Freddie [Freeman] went down, I thought maybe there would be an opening and that I would play against lefties and Kelly [Johnson] would play against righties,” Johnson continued. “Then when I saw that Kelly wasn’t playing against righties, and I still wasn’t playing, the frustration kind of boiled over, and kind of got my mind on other things and other places.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The trade market for Chris Johnson may be limited by that is not preventing the third baseman from letting his desires of a new location from being known. Owed $20 million on a contract that runs though the 2017 season, Johnson has seen limited playing time. “I’d be lying if I said I understood it,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,239,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-chris-johnson","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10427,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions\/10427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10425"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}