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Twins Hire Keith Beauregard as Hitting Coach

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On Thursday night, the Minnesota Star Tribune's Bobby Nightengale announced that the Minnesota Twins will be hiring their third lead hitting coach in the past three seasons. Keith Beauregard, who has been with the Detroit Tigers hitting coach staff the past four seasons, will head to the Twins.

Beauregard has been with the Tigers since 2022, but it was announced that he decided not to return to Motown for the 2026 season. He worked with the likes of All-Star Riley Greene and Matt Carpenter. He oversaw the turn around seasons of Javy Baez and Spencer Torkelson. He worked with James Rowson on the Tigers 2023 staff. 

Matt Borgschulte returned to the Twins organization to become their lead hitting coach in 2024. He will not be returning to the Twins for 2025. "Borgs" replaced David Popkins who was the team's lead hitting coach in 2022 and 2023. Shortly after the Twins let him go last offseason, he was hired by the Blue Jays and led the best offense in the league to the World Series. 

Nightengale also noted that Trevor Amicone and Rayden Sierra will return as the team's assistant coaches in 2026. 

Catching up on the Twins coaching situation: 

Manager: Derek Shelton (replaces Rocco Baldelli)
Bench Coach: Open (replacing Jayce Tinger)
Asst Bench Coach: Open: (replacing Hank Conger)
Pitching Coach: Pete Maki (returns)
Asst Pitching Coach: Luis Ramirez (returns)
Bullpen Coach: LaTroy Hawkins (replaces Colby Suggs, who is with the Rangers now)
Hitting Coach: Keith Beauregard (replaces Matt Borgschulte)
Asst Hitting Coach: Trevor Amicone (returns)
Asst Hitting Coach: Rayden Sierra (returns)
1B Coach/Outfield/Baserunner: Grady Sizemore (replacing Tommy Watkins, now with the Braves)
3B Coach/Infield Coach: Ramon Borrego (shift from 1B coach to 3B coach)
Quality Control Coach: Open (replacing Nate Dahmann) 


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He's far from my 1st pick; nothing really screams out to me either way. Shelton, a former hitting coach, I have to trust that he knows what he's doing to revamp the Twins offense. My biggest concerns is with the catching, quality control & bench coach positions. IMO, they need to hit an HR there & do it quickly so they can help to evaluate & resolve the catching problem.

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I know last year when they signed Borgschulte, I tried connecting dots to have them trade for Ryan Mountcastle. Arguably Ty France was better last year than Mountcastle. Such is life.

So now, I'm NOT going to connect dots and say they should trade for Spencer Torkelson. BUT, I do think Torkelson could be available, and coming to a place with a familiar coach wouldn't be a bad thing.

Anyway, disregard this once they do something else for 1b.

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26 minutes ago, Cory Engelhardt said:

I know last year when they signed Borgschulte, I tried connecting dots to have them trade for Ryan Mountcastle. Arguably Ty France was better last year than Mountcastle. Such is life.

So now, I'm NOT going to connect dots and say they should trade for Spencer Torkelson. BUT, I do think Torkelson could be available, and coming to a place with a familiar coach wouldn't be a bad thing.

Anyway, disregard this once they do NOTHING for 1b.

FIFY.

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25 minutes ago, Cory Engelhardt said:

I know last year when they signed Borgschulte, I tried connecting dots to have them trade for Ryan Mountcastle. Arguably Ty France was better last year than Mountcastle. Such is life.

So now, I'm NOT going to connect dots and say they should trade for Spencer Torkelson. BUT, I do think Torkelson could be available, and coming to a place with a familiar coach wouldn't be a bad thing.

Anyway, disregard this once they do something else for 1b.

Good thought - can’t see a trade between Twins and Division rival to help MN chances. Could use the 28-30 HRs!

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4 minutes ago, JD-TWINS said:

Good thought - can’t see a trade between Twins and Division rival to help MN chances. Could use the 28-30 HRs!

You are probably right. But they have made a few trades together over the last few years. Paddack at the last deadline, and getting Michael Fulmer a few deadlines ago.

And, I THINK Detroit might be open to getting a different 1B in free agency. But maybe not. 

I'm not going to say this will happen for sure. But they have made trades before.

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1 hour ago, nicksaviking said:

Can't say I've ever thought of a hitting coach bringing the wow factor. Who's a wow factor hitting coach?

Walt Hriniak was a good one , he's 82 , what's age have to do with it if he can think and walk ...

white Sox in the early 80's

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2 hours ago, nicksaviking said:

Can't say I've ever thought of a hitting coach bringing the wow factor. Who's a wow factor hitting coach?

Tony Oliva was back in the day.

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He doesn't feel much different from the last couple guys who held the job. Worse, Detroit had some of the same problems in 2025 that the Twins saw. A late season swoon, some youngsters plateauing or sliding back, a couple others showing some steps forward, but in the end not enough offense to go where they wanted to be. Think about how Lewis has stalled since 2024 and then look at Baez or Torkelson over the past three years and tell me he'll help him make changes.

OTOH Beauregard has to be excited about his prospects in 2027 once he's scapegoated in MN and hired by some playoff team.

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2 hours ago, Mike Sixel said:

I doubt any of us have any idea if this is a good hire or not. Good luck to him!

And we'll never know. Fans who dislike him will point to the players who underperformed and blame him. Fans that like him will point to the players who overperformed and give him credit. Neither will be right. They'll both be right. Nobody on the outside knows. 

Why did Harrison Bader have the best offensive season of his career this year? Was it the incompetent hitting coach? Why were/are people excited about Kody Clemens' "breakout" this year? Was it the incompetent hitting coach? How about Austin Martin or Luke Keaschall? Ryan Jeffers? Willi Castro fell apart when he left, was Borgschulte holding him together? But he got good under Popkins and fell apart with the Cubs, so were Popkins and Borgschulte both good and the Cubs guy bad?

The amount of opinions about coaches around here is always fascinating to me. To my knowledge, there's not a lot of people on these boards who've interviewed these guys or know anything real about them. It's all just made up in our heads. We have no legitimate way of knowing how good any of these guys are. Every team's lineup and pitching staffs are full of successes and failures. Who you credit or blame for that is all up to your own biases, really.

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Keep Falvey away from the batting cage.

Toronto Blue Jays stats, before/after hiring of Maki.

2024/2025

BA: .243/267

SLG: .389/.432

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