Kelly Johnson is coming to the Toronto Blue Jays for Arron Hill and they are basically the same player as they are both are having horrible hitting numbers this season but both have had huge numbers in the past and both of them are going to be free agent.
Kelly Johnson is hitting .209 (90 for 430) but when he gets hits they are extra base hits with 46 extra base hits ( 5 triples, 23 doubles, and 18 homers) with 49 RBIs but he is a power hitter and like most power hitters if they do not tag a ball then they swing right through with the bat and miss the ball (132Ks) and they are not usually patient like Jose Bautista (instead of 103 walks he has 44 walks). To go with the numbers Kirk Gibson had lost all confidence in Johnson as he has been benched like 3 or 4 times over the last week and hoped that batting practice would help him instead but not really and has been hitting .171 (6 for 35) with a single RBI with no long balls with 2 walks and 10 Ks.
Arron Hill is hitting worst than Johnny Mac (.225 to .250) and Arron Hill has 6 homers, 15 doubles, a triple with 45 RBI with 23 walks and 53Ks so Hill is not playing well as he in his last 10 games is hitting .179 (7 for 39) with a homer and 5 RBIs with no walk and 6Ks. While Johnny Mac has been so good recently that he has taken Arron Hill on a number of occasion in the recent past and his past 10 games Johnny Mac is hitting .423 (11 for 26) with 4 RBIs and 2Ks.
Kelly Johnson has had two good years in 07 & 08 hitting .282 (301 for 1068) with 28 HRs with 65 doubles, 16 triples, and 137 RBIs with 131 walks and 230Ks in 297 games and then the next season in 2009 in 106 games he hit .224 (68 for 303) with 8 homers, 20 doubles, 3 triples with 29 RBIs along with 32 walks and 54Ks. Then after being traded to Arizona by the Atlanta Braves he had a comeback season in 154 games with 26 homers with 71 RBIs with 36 doubles, and 5 triples while walking 79 and 141 Ks with a batting average of .284 (166 for 585). So a new in environment he may have a better end to the season or Adeiny Hechavarria maybe brought up in September as he is tearing up triple A in 11 games hitting .435 (20 for 46) with a homer, 6 RBIs, 3 double, and 5 walks to go with 7Ks.
Arron Hill was good before the 2010 season as in his first 5 seasons was hitting .285 with 64 homers (including 36 homers in '08) with 296 RBIs (108 RBIs in '08) and had 151 doubles (47 in '07), 8 triples, and 175 walks to go with 338 Ks in 533 games. Then over the last almost seasons in 242 games he has batted .213 (198 for 924) with 32 homer and 113 RBIs with 37 doubles and a triple while walking 64 to go with 138Ks so he has had a rough patch and hopefully with the new environment in Arizona.
Will see if Kelly Johnson can turn it around and have a future with Blue Jays or someone will be come in and try to be the second baseman of the futire
Tom Mehegan
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