Kash Beauchamp

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| birth_place = Grove, Oklahoma

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James Kash Beauchamp (born January 8, 1963) is an American professional baseball coach and former outfielder. Prior to the 2025 season, he was named manager of the Boise Hawks.{{cite web |title=Boise Hawks Announce Manager for 2025 Season |url=https://www.boisehawks.com/ClubInfo/2025_Manager_Announcement |publisher=Boise Hawks |access-date=2 April 2025 |language=en |date=7 January 2025}} He was previously the hitting coach for the Lincoln Saltdogs of the American Association of Professional Baseball.

Playing career

Beauchamp is the son of Major League Baseball player Jim Beauchamp. Beauchamp attended Grove High School in Oklahoma and then Bacone College.

Beauchamp played 12 seasons in the minors, seeing moderate success but never reaching the Majors, although he did get as high as Triple-A. He displayed good speed at the beginning of his professional career, stealing as many as 25 bases in a season, although as his career went on he stole less and less each year.

In 1984, he was the MVP of the Carolina League All-Star Game, going 5-for-6 with a home run, two triples and five RBI. He was voted Best Defensive Outfielder and Outfielder With the Best Arm that year by Baseball America.

Beauchamp was the first player to be signed to a professional (major league affiliated) contract out of the independent leagues when, after hitting .367 with the Rochester Aces of the Northern League in 1993, he was signed by the Cincinnati Reds.

Coaching career

Beauchamp ended his playing career in 1995, and afterward he began managing and coaching various teams in different independent leagues. From 1995 to 1997, he was a hitting coach in the Montreal Expos farm system. From 1998 to 2000, he managed the New Jersey Jackals of the Northeast League. He managed the Lincoln Saltdogs in 2001 and then the Adirondack Lumberjacks for the next three seasons. He didn't manage in 2005, instead serving as the scouting director for the Golden Baseball League. During his time with the Golden League he was picked up as hitting coach for the Samurai Bears. He also had a role in the movie Season of the Samurai. He managed the Pensacola Pelicans of the American Association in 2006. In 2007, he served as Vice President/Director of Baseball Operations for the South Coast League. He also served as manager of the league's Anderson Joes franchise for the final 37 games of the 2007 season. Beauchamp left both positions in November 2007{{cite press release |title=Kash "n" Out |url=http://southcoastleague.com/news/press/?id=761 |date=November 9, 2007 |publisher=South Coast League |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080128164054/https://southcoastleague.com/news/press/?id=761 |archive-date=January 28, 2008}} to become manager of the Wichita Wingnuts of the American Association.

On July 9, 2008, Beauchamp had a major tirade, taking off his shoe and trying to make the umpire smell his shoe along with his armpit; he received a four-game suspension for his actions. His extreme emotional blowup, arguing the controversial call on behalf of his players, received national attention via major television networks and has become something of an internet sensation.{{cite news |last1=Boniface |first1=Dan |title=Wingnuts manager suspended over tirade with ump |url=https://www.9news.com/article/news/weird/wingnuts-manager-suspended-over-tirade-with-ump/73-342378270 |accessdate=November 18, 2019 |work=KUSA (TV) |agency=Associated Press |date=July 12, 2008}}{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsSFz-QVbDs |title=Raw Video: Minor League Manager Loses Cool |date=July 11, 2008 |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=November 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/LsSFz-QVbDs |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live |via=YouTube}}{{Cite web |date=2013-08-25 |title=Interview Part 4: Kash Beauchamp, Fight For |url=https://www.greatest21days.com/2013/08/interview-part-4-kash-beauchamp-fight.html |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=Greatest 21 Days}} At the end of the 2008 season, the Wingnuts decided not to retain Beauchamp as their manager.

Beauchamp was hired as the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Independent League Scout in 2017, and retained that role through the 2019 season.

In 2018, Beauchamp served as the hitting coach for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.{{cite web |date=December 20, 2017 |title=Blue Crabs Hire Hitting Coach Beauchamp for 2018 |url=https://somdbluecrabs.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/blue-crabs-hire-hitting-coach-beauchamp-for-2018/ |accessdate=December 20, 2017 |work=Southern Maryland Blue Crabs}}

In November 2019, Beauchamp was hired as the hitting coach for the Winnipeg Goldeyes in the American Association, serving in that role for two seasons.{{cite press release |last1=Schuster |first1=Steve |title=Baseball Veteran Beauchamp Joins Goldeyes Staff |url=https://goldeyes.com/baseball-veteran-beauchamp-joins-goldeyes-staff/ |accessdate=February 24, 2020 |publisher=Winnipeg Goldeyes |date=November 4, 2019 |language=en-CA}}

On November 23, 2021, the Ogden Raptors announced the hiring of Beauchamp as their next manager.{{cite web |last1=Hein |first1=Brett |title=Ogden Raptors hire Beauchamp as manager; 2022 schedule official |url=https://www.standard.net/sports/ogden-raptors/2021/nov/23/ogden-raptors-hire-beauchamp-as-manager-2022-schedule-official/ |access-date=2 May 2022 |website=Standard-Examiner}} He managed the team until the end of the 2023 season.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-14 |title=Ogden Raptors Announce 2024 Field Manager Evan Parker |url=https://ogden-raptors.com/default-content/2024_Field_Manager# |website=Ogden Raptors}}

Beauchamp became the hitting coach of the Lincoln Saltdogs of the American Association in 2024.{{Cite web |last=Clark |first=Connor |date=2024-05-02 |title=SALTDOGS HOST 2024 MEDIA DAY |url=https://saltdogs.com/saltdogs-host-2024-media-day/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=Lincoln Saltdogs}}

Personal life

Beauchamp appeared as a contestant in a 2001 episode of America's Funniest Home Videos.{{Cite news |last=Mabry |first=John |date=August 5, 2001 |title=Solich does right thing with Stella |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/297846113/?match=1&clipping_id=170281583 |work=Lincoln Journal Star |page=2E |publication-date= |via=Newspapers.com}}