{"id":18088,"date":"2014-05-02T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/johnson-braves-agree-to-three-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2014-05-02T21:10:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T21:10:21","slug":"johnson-braves-agree-to-three-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/johnson-braves-agree-to-three-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson, Braves agree to three-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves have agreed to terms with third baseman Chris Johnson on a three-year extension.<\/p>\n<p>The contract runs through the 2017 season and includes an option for the 2018 campaign. The deal is reportedly worth $23.5 million with a $10 million team option.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2012 season, Johnson was acquired by Atlanta from Arizona along with outfielder Justin Upton.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson went on to hit .321 with 34 doubles, 12 homers and 68 RBI in 142 games last year with the Braves.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Johnson is batting .255 with six doubles, one homer and four RBI in 26 games so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>In 516 career games with the Astros, Diamondbacks and Braves, Johnson has a .287 batting average with 111 doubles, 46 homers and 243 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Later Friday, the club announced that pitcher Mike Minor was activated from the 15-day disabled list and pitcher Gus Schlosser was optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett.<\/p>\n<p>Minor will return to the mound for his season debut against San Francisco&#8217;s Tim Lincecum in the opener of a three-game series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves have agreed to terms with third baseman Chris Johnson on a three-year extension. The contract runs through the 2017 season and includes an option for the 2018 campaign. The deal is reportedly worth $23.5 million with a $10 million team option. After the 2012 season, Johnson was acquired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,17,19],"class_list":["post-18088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18092,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088\/revisions\/18092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}