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Full Name: Howard Michael Johnson
Title: Batting Coach
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Howard Michael Johnson enters his second full season as the batting coach...Appointed to the position on July 12, 2007 after
serving as the the Mets first base coach to start the season...Was the hitting coach with Norfolk (AAA) of the International League in 2005-2006...Was the hitting coach with Norfolk (AAA) of the International League in 2005-2006...Managed Brooklyn (A) of the New York-Penn League in 2002 and was the Cyclones hitting coach in their championship year
of 2001...Managed the Mets Instructional League team in Port St. Lucie, FL in the fall of 2002...Worked in the Mets Professional
Scouting Department from October, 1997 through 2001...Played with the Mets from 1984-1993...Appeared in 88 games and hit 10 home runs for New Yorks 1986World Championship
team...Ranks third in franchise history in home runs (192), RBI (629), and stolen bases (202)...Ranks second in doubles (214), runs
scored (627) and extra-base hits (424)...Ranks fifth in games played (1,154) and appeared in more games at third base (835)
than any other player in the Mets history...In 1987, became just the third player in major league history to register a 30-30 season after hitting 36 home runs and
stealing 32 bases...Also accomplished the feat in 1989, finishing with 36 home runs and 41 stolen bases and again in 1991,
hitting a career-high 38 home runs and swiping 30 bases...Named to his first All-Star Game in 1989...Picked
as the starting third baseman for the National
League after Mike Schmidt, who received the
highest number of votes, announced his
retirement...Also played in the 1991 All-Star
Game...Won the National Leagues home run and RBI
titles in 1991 with 38 home runs and 117 RBI...
Became the third Mets batter (Dave Kingman,
1992 and Darryl Strawberry, 1988) to lead the
league in home runs and the first ever to win the
RBI title...In addition, he was the first switchhitter
to lead the NL in RBI and the second
switch-hitter (Rip Collins, 1934) ever to lead the
NL in home runs...Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in 1979 and won a World Series ring with the Tigers in 1984...Acquired by the Mets in exchange
for righthanded pitcher Walt Terrell on December 7, 1984...Over a 14-year major league career, posted a .249 batting average with 247 doubles, 22 triples, 228 home runs, 760 RBI and
231 stolen bases in 1,531 career games with the Mets, Tigers, Rockies and Cubs...With wife Kim, has three children: daughters, Shannon and Kayla and son, Glen...Shannon is a figure skating coach in Florida,
while Glen, a switch-hitting shortstop, attends Jacksonville University on a baseball scholarship.
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