The Twins are bringing back a coach who is very familiar with their hitters.

As they overhaul their coaching staff — the Twins announced earlier this month that four coaches, including hitting coaches David Popkins, Rudy Hernandez and Derek Shomon, would not be returning in their roles — the Twins are hiring hitting coach Matt Borgschulte, a source confirmed.

Borgschulte, 33, previously was a minor league coach in the organization and has experience working with players on the current roster, many of whom have spoken highly of their time with him.

In his first stint with the Twins, Borgschulte was the Triple-A Saints hitting coach in 2021, worked at the alternate site in 2020 and served as the hitting coach for Single-A Fort Myers in 2019 and for the GCL Twins in 2018.

But after the Twins hired Popkins ahead of the 2022 season to lead their hitters, Borgschulte departed for Baltimore to serve as the Orioles’ co-hitting coach, a role he served in for the past three seasons.

The Orioles, a team stocked with young talent, finished the 2024 season with a .750 OPS, which was fourth in the majors. Their 786 runs scored was also fourth in the majors, their 235 home runs were second and their 115 wRC+ (Weighted Runs Created Plus) was third in the majors behind just the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.

The Twins, meanwhile, tailed off offensively at the end of the season for six weeks, collapsing and missing the playoffs, after which manager Rocco Baldelli expressed that “sometimes the players need a different voice with a different message.”

“Situational hitting approach, things like that, are going to be part of the conversation we have here around the next hitting group,” president of baseball operations Derek Falvey said earlier this month. “What that looks like, what were we missing on that. It did feel like, particularly in certain situations, it was hard for us to execute on maybe a key moment.”

In addition to turning over their hitting staff, Twins also dismissed assistant bench coach/infield coach Tony Diaz earlier this month, creating four coaching openings, which is the most turnover since before Baldelli took over before the 2019 season.

In what figures to be a busy offseason, Derek Falvey said earlier this month that the filing out their coaching staff “will likely be the first order of business,” this offseason.

The beginning to that has now happened.

The Twins are bringing back a coach who is very familiar with their hitters.

As they overhaul their coaching staff — the Twins announced earlier this month that four coaches, including hitting coaches David Popkins, Rudy Hernandez and Derek Shomon, would not be returning in their roles — the Twins are hiring hitting coach Matt Borgschulte, a source confirmed.

Borgschulte, 33, previously was a minor league coach in the organization and has experience working with players on the current roster, many of whom have spoken highly of their time with him.

In his first stint with the Twins, Borgschulte was the Triple-A Saints hitting coach in 2021, worked at the alternate site in 2020 and served as the hitting coach for Single-A Fort Myers in 2019 and for the GCL Twins in 2018.

But after the Twins hired Popkins ahead of the 2022 season to lead their hitters, Borgschulte departed for Baltimore to serve as the Orioles’ co-hitting coach, a role he served in for the past three seasons.

The Orioles, a team stocked with young talent, finished the 2024 season with a .750 OPS, which was fourth in the majors. Their 786 runs scored was also fourth in the majors, their 235 home runs were second and their 115 wRC+ (Weighted Runs Created Plus) was third in the majors behind just the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees.

The Twins, meanwhile, tailed off offensively at the end of the season for six weeks, collapsing and missing the playoffs, after which manager Rocco Baldelli expressed that “sometimes the players need a different voice with a different message.”

“Situational hitting approach, things like that, are going to be part of the conversation we have here around the next hitting group,” president of baseball operations Derek Falvey said earlier this month. “What that looks like, what were we missing on that. It did feel like, particularly in certain situations, it was hard for us to execute on maybe a key moment.”

In addition to turning over their hitting staff, Twins also dismissed assistant bench coach/infield coach Tony Diaz earlier this month, creating four coaching openings, which is the most turnover since before Baldelli took over before the 2019 season.

In what figures to be a busy offseason, Derek Falvey said earlier this month that the filing out their coaching staff “will likely be the first order of business,” this offseason.

The beginning to that has now happened.