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

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. He is the

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for the Georgia Bulldogs.

Career

Johnson is from

Sherwood, Arkansas Sherwood is a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 32,731. It is part of the Little Rock, Arkansas, Little Rock−North Little ...

. He graduated from Sylvan Hills High School in Sherwood and from the

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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

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, before joining the

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in 2016. He spent one season with Mississippi State before he was hired to coach the

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pitchers. After the 2018 season, the Minnesota Twins of

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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

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. On June 5, 2023, Johnson was hired as the Georgia Bulldogs head baseball coach.

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External links

University of Georgia bio
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