Wes Johnson (born September 9, 1971) is an American baseball

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. He is the head coach for the

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Career

Johnson is from Sherwood, Arkansas. He graduated from

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in Sherwood and from the University of Arkansas at Monticello in 1994 after playing baseball there for two years. Johnson began his coaching career as an assistant at Sylvan Hills and Arkansas Baptist High School before landing the head coaching job and winning a state championship at Abundant Life School in Sherwood. He has served as a pitching coach for the Central Arkansas Bears and Dallas Baptist Patriots, before joining the Mississippi State Bulldogs in 2016. He spent one season with Mississippi State before he was hired to coach the Arkansas Razorbacks pitchers. After the 2018 season, the

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of Major League Baseball hired him as their pitching coach. On June 26, 2022, Johnson was announced as the new pitching coach of the LSU Tigers. Leaving his pitching coach role with the first-place Twins for the same position at the NCAA level was reported as a rare move by many in the media, including Jeff Passan. On June 5, 2023, Johnson was hired as the

head baseball coach.

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University of Georgia bio
Living people People from Sherwood, Arkansas Baseball coaches from Arkansas Sylvan Hills High School alumni Georgia Bulldogs baseball coaches University of Arkansas at Monticello alumni Central Arkansas Bears baseball coaches Dallas Baptist Patriots baseball coaches Major League Baseball pitching coaches Minnesota Twins coaches Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball coaches Arkansas Razorbacks baseball coaches High school baseball coaches in the United States 1972 births {{US-baseball-bio-stub