BATON ROUGE – LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson has reportedly turned to the Major Leagues for his new pitching coach.
D1 Baseball’s Kendall Rogers was the first to report the Tigers are hiring Minnesota Twins pitching coach Wes Johnson.
Johnson has been with the Twins the last four seasons after spending nine seasons as a college pitching coach, most recently with Arkansas in 2018 when the Razorbacks finished as national runner-ups. He’s also had stops at Mississippi State, Dallas Baptist and Central Arkansas.
Wes Johnson is leaving a team that’s in first place in the American League Central.
The news of Wes Johnson’s hiring comes on the heels of two big acquisitions through the transfer portal, North Carolina State’s Tommy White and Vanderbilt’s Christian Little.
White set the NCAA freshman home run record by hitting 27 bombs and driving in 74 runs this past season. He has two more years before he’s draft-eligible.
Little is a right-hander from St. Louis, Missouri, who went 4-4 with a 4.65 ERA and striking out 95 in 81 innings. D1 baseball’s Kendall Rogers says Little has the potential to be a first round pick.
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