Rubin Sandy Alderson reiterated the former major league hitting coach Howard Johnson will have a role with the organization in 2011. Alderson did acknowledge it will not be as a minor league manager. �There have been a lot of conversations with Howard,� Alderson said. �For a lot of reasons the thing has just not closed at this point. He will be back with us, and I expect that�s going to get resolved in the next couple of days. It�s really not an issue. It�s just there�s been a lot of conversation and communication back and forth. So I hope it�s resolved in the next couple of days. "Again, it�s not a problem. It�s one of those things we haven�t gotten done yet. We still don�t have a strength and conditioning coach. So there are two or three things out there that we still need to complete over the next seven to 10 days.�