The Twins are hiring Keith Beauregard as their new hitting coach, reports Bobby Nightengale of The Minnesota Star-Tribune. He’ll replace Matt Borgschulte, who held the position for the 2025 season. Nightengale writes that assistant hitting coaches Rayden Sierra and Trevor Amicone are expected back in the same positions.
Beauregard makes the jump to the Twin Cities after three seasons with a division rival. He’d been a hitting coach with the Tigers between 2023-25. The 42-year-old had previously been a collegiate hitting coach and a minor league hitting instructor in the Dodgers organization. His stint on A.J. Hinch’s staff was his first in the big leagues. Beauregard worked as a co-hitting instructor with Michael Brdar, who’ll remain in that role for a fourth season in Detroit.
The Tigers hit .247/.316/.413 this past season. They ranked in the middle third of MLB in all three slash stats and finished 10th with 198 home runs. They were 11th in scoring. A few of their hitters (e.g. Riley Greene, Gleyber Torres, Javier Báez, Zach McKinstry) got out to excellent starts but collapsed in the second half. Detroit had the sport’s third-highest strikeout rate (25.1%) and is expected to emphasize putting more balls in play next season.
Individual coaches only have so much sway over player performance, of course. Greene, Kerry Carpenter and Dillon Dingler have developed into quality position players over the past couple seasons. Former first overall pick Spencer Torkelson has been up and down but is coming off his best season. He hit .240/.333/.456 while matching his career high with 31 home runs.
Borgschulte is seemingly out after just one season as Minnesota’s top hitting coach. That’s always a possibility when a team makes a managerial change, as the Twins did in dismissing Rocco Baldelli in favor of Derek Shelton. Minnesota had a below-average offense in 2025. They ranked 23rd in scoring while batting .238/.310/.397. Byron Buxton is a star and second-year infielder Luke Keaschall looks like a building block. The Twins will need a lot more from former top picks Royce Lewis and Brooks Lee than they got this past season.
Shelton’s first staff in Minnesota is coming into place. Pitching coach Pete Maki, assistant pitching coach Luis Ramirez, and third base coach Ramon Borrego join the assistant hitting coaches as holdovers from last season. They’ve already brought in Grady Sizemore as first base coach and LaTroy Hawkins to oversee the bullpen. They need to replace bench coach Jayce Tingler, who departed to take a position on the Giants staff. Catching coach Hank Conger and quality control coach Nate Dammann were also let go. Minnesota is reportedly hoping to get James Rowson, the runner-up in the managerial search, to accept the bench coach position.
Minnesota got a little more French (ish).