Florida Gator left hand pitcher Brian Johnson has received an invitation for the 2010 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Trials that begin on July 5 and go through until July 11 located at the National training complex in Cary, N.C. Johnson will be battling for a shot on the 22 man roster that will be chosen and decided who made it on Sunday, July 11. The 22 players who will be chosen will be traveling all across the country, and with the summer season will be wrapping up on July 30-August 7 at FISU World University Baseball Championships that will be located in Tokyo, Japan. Johnson will also be at the trials with his teammate Nolan Fontana.

Both Louisville Slugger and NCBWA chose Johnson as the Freshman All-American, he earned his spots on the SEC’s All-Freshman Team and will contribute as a starting pitcher and as well as a DH. With Johnson’s 15 appearances and 14 starts on the hill for Florida, he held a record of 6-4, 3.97 ERA and 48 strikeouts in a total of 70 innings.

Johnson can not only pitch, but he has a mean stroke at the plate as well. He was the Gators DH in 26 games this season with a .413 BA, 19 RBIs, 13 runs scores, five doubles, four home runs, and two grand slams. Yeah…. pretty impressive huh?

Johnson was honored as the Most Outstanding Player at the NCAA Gainesville Regional when he finished batting 5-for-8 (.625) and pitched seven shut out innings in the championship game. During the Florida Atlantic game, he went 3-for-5 along with a lead off homer that was belted in the third inning. During the second game against Florida Atlantic, Johnson hit the stick real well, going 2-for-3 and not to mention he earned his first career triple in the victory against Oregon State.

In last weeks sweep against the Hurricanes, Johnson hit a team high of .429 and also drove in three runs. He received freshman player of the week back on April 5 and repeated it on May 3, putting his name on the Watch List for the John Olerud Award that is given to the countries best two way player which Johnson is.

Florida is set to play UCLA in the college world series on Saturday, starting at 7:00pm on ESPN. This is the Gators 64th College World Series appearance.

(Info gathered by Gatorzone.)