{"id":10570,"date":"2016-01-05T23:49:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T04:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10570"},"modified":"2016-01-05T23:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T04:49:55","slug":"kelly-johnson-could-sign-with-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2016\/01\/05\/kelly-johnson-could-sign-with-braves\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Johnson could sign with Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10571\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/kellyjohnson.jpg\" alt=\"kellyjohnson\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/kellyjohnson.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2016\/01\/kellyjohnson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kelly Johnson began last season with the Braves and was traded midseason. Such a scenario could happen again this season.<\/p>\n<p>Both David O&#8217;Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Mark Bowman of MLB.com hae stated that the Braves and Johnson were in contract talks.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Johnson began the season with the Braves and was traded to the Mets. He went on to hit .265\/.314\/.435 with 14 home runs between the two teams while playing six different positions.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the Braves lack talent across the diamond there is a good chance the now 33-year-old could see regular playing time. If Johnson produces he could then be flipped at the trade deadline again in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Uggal drawling interest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another former member of the Braves, Dan Uggla, is drawling interest from three or four teams.<\/p>\n<p>Uggla, 35, spent last season with the Nationals but produced just a .183\/.298.\/.300 line which included just two home runs in 141 trips to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Cotillo of SB Nation says Uggla does have sutiors but offers up little more. More than likely Uggla will have to settle for a minor league deal and scrap for at-bats. He very well could be at the end of his playing days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Johnson began last season with the Braves and was traded midseason. Such a scenario could happen again this season. Both David O&#8217;Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Mark Bowman of MLB.com hae stated that the Braves and Johnson were in contract talks. Last season Johnson began the season with the Braves and was traded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,503,539,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-kelly-johnson","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570","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=10570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10572,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570\/revisions\/10572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10570"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}