Tigers head coach Jay Johnson in the dugout as The LSU Tigers take on Oregon State in the 2023 NCAA Div 1 Regional Baseball Championship at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, LA. Sunday, June 4, 2023.

LSU baseball's second College World Series appearance in three years under head coach Jay Johnson is fueled by another phenomenal pitching staff. Under Johnson, LSU has emerged as a premier ...

JAY JOHNSON: First off, I want to congratulate Arkansas, Coach Van Horn, the staff. Coming here four years ago from the West, I just felt like that's the program we always have to catch.

JAY JOHNSON: Well, they gave up one on Wednesday, they gave up two yesterday, and they gave up zero today, so they obviously have a formula that works good. We hadn't seen them.

Arizona head coach Jay Johnson watches from the dugout as Stanford celebrates their 14-5 victory during a baseball game in the College World Series Monday, June 21, 2021, at TD Ameritrade Park in ...

JAY JOHNSON: There's a lot of ways to impact your team's ability to win the game other than just hitting. I think when you hand out these box scores, it has to do with offense mostly in the first ...

For those reasons and more, Johnson is the 2023 Baseball America Coach of the Year. He is the third LSU coach to win the award, joining Skip Bertman (1986 and 1996) and Paul Mainieri (2009).

New baseball coach Jay Johnson has agreed to a five-year contract with LSU that will pay him $4.9 million before incentives by the end of the deal, according to a preliminary term sheet between ...

JAY JOHNSON: Yeah, I think he said it well; when you look at what is ahead of us, this point forward, we won't see anything we haven't seen from a talent perspective. I thought 15 of the 16 teams ...

Jay Johnson and the LSU Tigers are College World Series Finals bound after stunning the Arkansas Razorbacks on Wednesday night at Charles Schwab Field. LSU advanced to 3-0 in Omaha with a pair of ...

JAY JOHNSON: Yeah, I think there's some differences. I think the nature of college baseball has changed where you're building your team one year at a time.