It is not really a transaction, which has anything to do with European Baseball. However many coaches and baseball fans in Europe know Derek Johnson. At Vanderbilt University he helped forming a program, which produced David Price and Mike Minor among others and earning him a reputation to be one of the best pitching coaches in the business. Now the Chicago Cubs have hired him to become the Chicago Cubs Minor League Pitching Coordinator according to Baseball America. Last November he was one of the speakers at the EBCA Convention in Prague, Czech Republic and will be one of the speakers at the European Coach Clinic in Rotterdam, Netherlands in December.