Coach Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson  is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. Johnson was named the Memphis area High-School Player of the Year in baseball at Germantown High School in 1999. He was a 4th round draft pick in 1999 by the St. Louis Cardinals, and was traded the following year to the San Diego Padres. In 2005, Johnson worked his way up to the majors with the Padres and earned a spot on the 2005 play-off roster. After the 2006 season Johnson was traded to the Mets along with relief pitcher Jon Adkins in exchange for relievers Heath Bell and Royce Ring. Currently Johnson works as an assistant coach at Millennium High School (Goodyear, AZ), and attends college at the University of Phoenix.

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