Overview
- Multiple local outlets report Bourgeois is set to join Craig Albernaz’s staff as first base coach, with the Orioles yet to announce the hire.
- He would replace Anthony Sanders, who left Baltimore to take the same role with the Detroit Tigers after six seasons.
- Bourgeois, 43, spent 2024 and 2025 as the White Sox’s first base and outfield coach after rising through the Dodgers’ system as a minor league outfield and base‑running coordinator.
- Albernaz and Bourgeois previously played together with Triple‑A Durham in 2013, reconnecting them in Baltimore.
- As first base coach, Bourgeois is expected to work on base running and outfield defense with young Orioles such as Gunnar Henderson, Jackson Holliday and Colton Cowser, and his arrival joins the reported addition of Dustin Lind as hitting coach among the first staff moves.