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Two coaches from the Baltimore Orioles are joining the Detroit Tigers for 2026 season.
The Tigers, led by manager A.J. Hinch, have hired Anthony Sanders as first-base coach and Cody Asche as assistant hitting coach, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Tigers haven’t made the hires official.
The hires were first reported by The Athletic.
Sanders, 51, replaces Anthony Iapoce, who spent the past two seasons as the first-base coach; Asche, 35, replaces Keith Beauregard, who spent the past three seasons as a hitting coach.
Both Iapoce and Beauregard departed from the Tigers’ coaching staff after the 2025 season.
As for the newcomers, Sanders spent six seasons as the Orioles’ first-base coach (2020-25) while Asche spent four seasons in the Orioles’ organization (2022-25).
The Orioles’ coaching staff shakeup stems from a managerial change with Brandon Hyde fired in mid-May and Craig Albernaz – the bench coach for the Cleveland Guardians – hired as the new manager in late October.
Before joining the Orioles, Sanders spent 13 years as a coach in the minor leagues with the Colorado Rockies, serving in several roles: hitting coach from 2007-12, manager from 2013-15, development supervisor in 2016-17 and outfielder/baserunning coordinator from 2018-19.
Sanders had been the longest-tenured coach with the Orioles.
Asche joined the Orioles in 2022 as an upper-level hitting coordinator in the minor leagues, then was promoted to the coaching staff in the big leagues as the offensive strategy coach from 2023-24.
He became the Orioles’ hitting coach in 2025.
Before joining the Orioles, Asche worked as the Low-A Clearwater hitting coach in the Philadelphia Phillies‘ organization in 2021 – his first coaching job after a five-year MLB career.
Both Sanders and Asche have MLB playing experience.
Sanders, a seventh-round pick in the 1992 draft, played 13 games as an outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays (1999) and Seattle Mariners (2000-01). Asche, a fourth-round pick in the 2011 draft, played 390 games as a third baseman and left fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies (2013-16) and Chicago White Sox (2017).
In 2000, Sanders won a gold medal with Team USA in baseball at the Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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