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Wes Johnson to join Jay Johnson's LSU baseball staff

June 26, 2022
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LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson has gone to the major leagues to find his new pitching coach.

According to Kendall Rogers of D1baseball.com, Wes Johnson who has spent the last four seasons with Minnesota Twins will be joining the LSU program.

Source of TigerBait says Johnson could be earning $750,000 a year at LSU.

Johnson’s brief bio from wiki:

Johnson is from Sherwood, Arkansas. He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello in 1994. He began his coaching career 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. After the 2018 season, the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball hired him as their pitching coach.

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