In a rare midseason move, Twins pitching coach Wes Johnson will leave the first-place AL Central organization to become the new pitching coach at LSU, as first reported by Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball.com.
Johnson has spent the last four years in Minnesota after first joining the franchise in 2019. In his first two seasons with the team, he helped lead one of the league’s most consistent staff and the Twins won the AL Central in both ’19 and ’20.
After Minnesota’s rotation ranked in the bottom five of the league in ERA in ’21, Johnson had started to put the group back on track this season.