About

About Sam Menzin

Sam Menzin, the founder and CEO of Campus Edge Baseball, a top college baseball recruiting firm, is a highly accomplished sports executive and entrepreneur with extensive experience leading teams, developing innovative solutions for player acquisition and performance, overseeing player contract negotiations, and managing significant capital investment initiatives. He has a proven track record in a competitive industry, delivering on and off-field results.

Founder, Advisor, and Innovator in the Sports Industry

Sam founded Campus Edge Baseball in 2025 and has built and scaled a premium college-baseball recruiting platform and advisory service, delivering personalized guidance to high-achieving student-athletes nationwide. He has developed a proprietary online recruiting infrastructure, including unique athlete profiles, a coach and school database, school-match applications, and a recruiting strategy matrix.

His responsibilities as CEO include managing sales, marketing, website development, social media, client onboarding, coach relationships, analytics, financial tracking, video optimization, and NCAA compliance. 

He partners with top baseball showcase events and cultivates direct relationships with D1, D2, D3, and JUCO coaches to enhance client placement. Sam also leverages data-driven strategy and high-conversion email, social media, and video campaigns to increase athlete exposure and drive recruiting engagement.

In addition to Campus Edge Baseball, Sam is an analyst with Woods Capital and the founder and principal of SJM Sports, a sports advisory and consulting firm that guides investors, private equity firms, and ownership groups evaluating sports assets, team acquisitions, and operational strategy.

Turning a Passion for Baseball Into a Rewarding Career

It’s no surprise that Sam chose the sports industry as his career and has had tremendous success. His passion for baseball deepened after reading Moneyball as a teenager, sparking an interest in the game’s strategic and analytical side and helping shape his long-term career goals in the sport.

He also played on the baseball team throughout his four years at Swarthmore College and won the 2012 Centennial Conference Sportsmanship Award as a varsity player.

While at school, Sam worked as Assistant Director for two years at the Complete Game Institute, managing the Pitching Biomechanics Facility, running pitching camps, and working with high-speed video technology.

Menzin’s Internships

Sam Menzin was an intern at several high-profile sports organizations, including the New York Mets, where he worked in Corporate Sales, assisting with client relations, corporate activations, sales, stadium tours, and on-field access liaison duties. 

He also interned for two years at Turner-Gary Sports, a leading player representation agency, in Baseball Operations, where he became heavily involved in the nuts and bolts of the sports agent’s role. Partner Rex Gary served as Sam’s mentor, teaching him the intricacies of arbitration hearings. During his time with Turner-Gary Sports, Sam supported the salary arbitration process, analyzed market trends, provided statistical analysis, and aided in free-agent strategy. He also built and designed the agency’s website. 

In 2012, Sam joined the Detroit Tigers’ Baseball Operations as an intern, where his responsibilities included preparing salary arbitration cases, running negotiation data for legal counsel, providing Minor League free-agent recommendations, and analyzing potential trade-deadline targets, including the acquisitions of Anibal Sanchez and Omar Infante.

From Intern to VP, Assistant General Manager, Detroit Tigers

Sam was with the Detroit Tigers for 14 years, rising from intern to analyst, then coordinator, and later director, until 2021, when he accepted the position of VP and Assistant General Manager at age 31, where he led multiple internal teams, including scouting, medical, performance, and player experience. 

He was a key player in all facets of player acquisition, contract negotiations, and salary arbitration, and managed over $100 million in capital investment initiatives. Sam was also named the interim club point of contact during the transition of the President of Baseball Operations. 

Education

Sam Menzin has a Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in Psychology from Swarthmore College. While at Swarthmore, he studied abroad in Rome, Italy.

He is completing his Executive Master of Business Administration at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business in New York. He will be graduating in 2027.

Born and raised in Westbury, New York, Sam attended Friends Academy High School, a Quaker, coeducational, independent, college preparatory school serving students from nursery school through the twelfth grade.

His Interests

Sam’s interests align with his career, spanning baseball front-office leadership, statistical analysis and scouting, college baseball advising, sports capital investments, construction and design projects, and contract negotiation. Outside of his professional work, he enjoys cooking, running, skiing, biking, yoga, and chess, which he played competitively as a child.

Sam ran the Detroit Marathon in 2023, raising $17,000 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and has volunteered with NOSH Food Kitchen in Glen Cove, New York, and Mission City in Detroit.