Wes Johnson

Wes Johnson (born September 9, 1971) is an American baseball coach. He is the head coach for the Georgia Bulldogs.

Career Johnson is from Sherwood, Arkansas. He graduated from Sylvan Hills High School in Sherwood and from the University of Arkansas at Monticello in 1994 after playing baseball there for two years. 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 Minnesota Twins 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.

University of Georgia

On June 5, 2023, Johnson was hired as the Georgia Bulldogs head baseball coach. In his first season as head coach, he led the Georgia Bulldogs to host an NCAA Super Regional. The 2024 Georgia Bulldogs baseball team finished just one win short of reaching the College World Series. After the season, Charlie Condon was selected third overall in the MLB Draft, with Corey Collins and Fernando Gonzalez also being drafted in 2025 MLB draft.

In his second season, Johnson guided the Bulldogs to their best start in program history, going 32–6 through 38 games, including a series win over then–No. 1 Arkansas.

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