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The Official Z Brain Trust story, as I understand it, is:
2005: "real" Kotch -- 111 PAs vs. RHP, .906 OPS
2006: injured
2007: "real" Kotch -- 424 PAs vs. RHP, .852 OPS
2008: "real" Kotch with LAA -- 309 PAs vs. RHP, .721 OPS (.262 BABIP)
2008: "troubled" Kotch (mom nearly dying, traded out of comfort zone) with ATL -- write it off
2009: "real" Kotch with ATL -- 235 PAs vs. RHP, .808 OPS
2009: "troubled" Kotch (disastrous trade to BOS) -- write it off
I'm not taking the time to get the math to the penny, but I think that's just about .284/.342/.460/.802 in 1079 PAs vs. RHP (when you exclude the "write off" periods). As it happens, just last year, while in ATL, he ran .288/.366/.442/.808 vs. RHP, before falling off the deep end in Boston, just as he had in ATL the year before.
I'm not saying they're right, I'm saying this is their argument. He's here to play against RHP, and they think you can argue that his track record is an .800 OPS guy vs. RHP.
(I'm not saying he will be.)