About Sam Menzin

Sam Menzin is a sports executive, entrepreneur, and baseball advisor with extensive experience in recruiting, player acquisition, contract negotiations, and baseball operations. As the founder and CEO of Campus Edge Baseball, he has built a recruiting platform that helps student-athletes pursue collegiate baseball opportunities through personalized guidance and strategic planning. His professional career reflects a strong commitment to athlete development, organizational leadership, and the use of analytics to support informed decision-making within the sports industry. In 2025, Sam founded Campus Edge Baseball and developed a comprehensive recruiting infrastructure that includes athlete profiles, coach and school databases, school-match applications, and recruiting strategy tools. Through the platform, he provides support to student-athletes seeking opportunities at colleges across the country. As CEO, he oversees sales, marketing, website development, social media management, client onboarding, analytics, financial tracking, video optimization, and NCAA compliance. He also works closely with baseball showcase events. He maintains direct relationships with coaches from Division I, Division II, Division III, and junior college programs to help athletes improve their recruiting visibility. Alongside his leadership role at Campus Edge Baseball, Menzin serves as an analyst with Woods Capital and is the founder and principal of SJM Sports. Through these positions, he advises investors, private equity firms, and ownership groups evaluating sports assets, acquisitions, and operational strategies. His work combines industry knowledge with practical analysis, helping organizations assess opportunities within the sports sector. His interest in baseball's strategic side began during his teenage years after reading Moneyball. The book introduced him to the game's analytical elements and helped shape his long-term professional goals. While attending Swarthmore College, Sam played four years of varsity baseball and received the 2012 Centennial Conference Sportsmanship Award. During his college years, he also worked as Assistant Director at the Complete Game Institute for two years, where he managed the Pitching Biomechanics Facility, coordinated pitching camps, and worked with high-speed video technology. His early professional experience included internships with the New York Mets, Turner-Gary Sports, and the Detroit Tigers. At the New York Mets, Menzin worked in Corporate Sales and assisted with client relations, corporate activations, sales support, stadium tours, and game-day operations. At Turner-Gary Sports, he spent two years in Baseball Operations, supporting salary arbitration preparation, statistical analysis, market evaluation, and free-agent strategy. He also contributed to the development of the agency's website. In 2012, he joined the Detroit Tigers as an intern in Baseball Operations, assisting with arbitration preparation, negotiation analysis, player evaluations, and trade-related research. His career with the Detroit Tigers lasted 14 years and included advancement through several leadership positions. Beginning as an intern, Sam progressed through analyst, coordinator, and director roles before becoming Vice President and Assistant General Manager in 2021. In that role, he led teams across scouting, medical, performance, and player experience departments. He contributed to player acquisition efforts, contract negotiations, salary arbitration matters, and capital investment initiatives totaling more than $100 million. He also served as the interim club point of contact during a transition involving the President of Baseball Operations. Menzin earned a Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in Psychology from Swarthmore College and studied abroad in Rome, Italy. He is currently pursuing an Executive Master of Business Administration at Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business and is expected to graduate in 2027. Raised in Westbury, New York, he attended Friends Academy High School before continuing his academic and athletic journey. Outside of his professional responsibilities, Sam Menzin maintains interests in baseball leadership, scouting, statistical analysis, college baseball advising, sports investments, construction and design projects, and contract negotiations. He enjoys cooking, running, skiing, biking, yoga, and chess. In 2023, he completed the Detroit Marathon while raising $17,000 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He has also volunteered with NOSH Food Kitchen in Glen Cove, New York, and Mission City in Detroit. Through his work in recruiting, consulting, and baseball operations, he continues to support athletes, organizations, and baseball-connected communities.

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