The Minnesota Twins continue to shape their new staff of coaches after the firing of Paul Molitor and subsequent hiring of Rocco Baldelli. One of the largest question marks left on the coaching staff was who would replace pitching coach Garvin Alston after his surprising firing after only one year on the Twins staff.
The Twins announced Thursday the hiring of their new pitching coach Wes Johnson who most recently served as the pitching coach for the University of Arkansas. Following in the trend of just about every Falvey-Levine hire to this point, Johnson seemingly came out of nowhere and has the casual baseball fan asking, “Who?