{"id":276,"date":"2009-12-30T11:38:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2009-12-30T11:38:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T15:38:39","slug":"dbacks-sign-kelly-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2009\/12\/30\/dbacks-sign-kelly-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dbacks sign Kelly Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=kelly johnson braves&amp;iid=4766240\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/c\/b\/b\/1\/BravesMets_5823.JPG?adImageId=8728472&amp;imageId=4766240\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Braves-Mets\" width=\"234\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a>The Arizona Diamondbacks and Kelly Johnson have agreed on a contract for next season worth a little north of $2 million pending a physical. He had been non-tendered by the Braves earlier this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is expected to be the opening day second basemen for the Dbacks, surpassing Ryan Roberts on the depth chart.<\/p>\n<p>Last year was difficult for Johnson who lost his starting job at second base in Atlanta and finished the year with a .224 average to go with 8 homers and 29 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson&#8217;s best year came back in 2007 when after returning from an elbow injury that cost him the entire 2006 season he went on to hit .276\/.375\/.457 with 15 homers and 68 RBI while moving from the outfield to second base. He&#8217;d follow that up with a solid 2008 season but never seemed to get it going last year for the Braves and eventually lost his job to Martin Prado.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Roberts figures to be his stiffest competition for playing time at second base in Arizona. Roberts, a journeyman though out the minors, hit .279\/.367\/.416 last season in 305 at-bats after collecting just 27 at-bats in his three previous stints in the majors.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;margin-left:5px\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks and Kelly Johnson have agreed on a contract for next season worth a little north of $2 million pending a physical. He had been non-tendered by the Braves earlier this winter. Johnson is expected to be the opening day second basemen for the Dbacks, surpassing Ryan Roberts on the depth chart. Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,50,59,357],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-kelly-johnson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}