The Detroit Tigers employed two hitting coaches and one assistant hitting coach in the 2025 season.
One of those hitting coaches has departed.
Keith Beauregard won’t return to the Tigers in the 2026 season, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation granted anonymity because the Tigers haven’t announced any coaching staff changes.SCOTT HARRIS: Tigers blame late-season collapse on bad offense, expect changes in offseason
All three hitting coaches were on contracts that expired after the 2025 season. Although Beauregard decided to leave, hitting coach Michael Brdar and assistant hitting coach Lance Zawadzki could return to the coaching staff in 2026.Expert MLB daily picks: Unique MLB betting insights only at USA TODAY
Beauregard will pursue new opportunities in baseball.
In 2025, the Tigers’ offense ranked in the top 15 among the 30 MLB teams for the first time since 2016 – finishing 10th with 198 home runs, 11th with 758 runs and 12th with a .730 OPS.MAY 2025: Tigers might not have elite offense, but hitting coaches making it look that way
Beauregard, 42, joined the Tigers in November 2022.
That’s when manager A.J. Hinch revamped the hitting department by hiring Beauregard and Brdar as hitting coaches and James Rowson as an assistant hitting coach. After one year, Rowson departed to become the New York Yankees’ hitting coach, so the Tigers replaced him with Zawadzki.
The duo of Beauregard and Brdar worked together as hitting coaches from 2023-25, while Zawadzki joined them as an assistant hitting coach from 2024-25.
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Beauregard oversaw the development of many players, including Riley Greene into a two-time All-Star, Spencer Torkelson into a bonafide slugger with more than 30 home runs in two of his past three seasons and Kerry Carpenter into one of the most dangerous left-handed hitters in baseball.OCTOBER 2024: Tigers have a three-headed secret weapon – hitting coaches
Before the Tigers, Beauregard worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
He spent 2019-22 with the Dodgers as a coach in the minor leagues for his first coaching experience in the professional ranks, with the first two seasons as a hitting coach and the final two seasons as an assistant field coordinator.
Beauregard played college baseball as an outfielder at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. He played four seasons in the Can-Am Association independent league: 2005-07 as a full-time player, then again in 2011 as a part-time player while working as a full-time bench coach.
He served as an assistant coach in the college ranks for UMass Lowell from 2011-12 and Santa Clara from 2013-17, focusing on hitting instruction during both stints.
Beauregard lives in Arizona.
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