Michael Keith Johnson (born October 3, 1975 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a baseball pitcher for the KBO's SK Wyverns. He made his Major League Baseball debut on April 6, 1997, with the Baltimore Orioles.

Johnson was selected by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1993 amateur draft and went on to play for the Baltimore Orioles (1997) and Montreal Expos (1997-2001). He was a member of Team Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where they finished in fourth place in the baseball tournament. Johnson played in the Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Francisco Giants organizations from 2001-2003, before signing with the Expos again in 2004

In 2006, Johnson played for Somerset of the independent Atlantic League. In 2007, he played for the Edmonton Cracker-Cats of the Northern League. In 2008, he played for the CPBL's La New Bears and won the winningest pitcher and the MVP at the regular season. For 2009, he signed to play for the SK Wyverns in South Korea after an interval of four years. But he was dismissed in April without the tenth passing from Opening game.

On March 7 2009 he pitched for Canada in the World Baseball Classic against the USA.

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