This might be a stupid question...

Draw a pentagram on the floor (human blood is preferable, but pig’s blood will do in a pinch), light a black candle on each point of the star, and finally stand in the center and recite 666 pater nosters in reverse (and I mean pronouncing the words backwards, not just saying each word normally in reverse order).

Careful, he may offer untold wealth in exchange for various disturbing physical acts and ownership of your immortal soul. He’s not much of a negotiator, though, so you might be able to talk him down to a simple burnt offering.

The best I can find is this address from the Giants’ website:

baseball@giants.mlb.com

Here is the link to the page I got the address from if you want to do a little more searching.

Also, I am breathlessly awaiting the other (non-serious) responses to this post.

...the guy virtually everybody on this site hates?

There are no stupid questions. There are only people who ask stupid questions.

For the better part of a century, that’s been the best route. If your dad isn’t already in baseball management, consider getting reborn to a father who is.

I have no personal idea. I know mlb22 says that he worked for the Padres. And some forgettable dude claimed to be Brian Sabean’s personal friend. That’s the most direction I could possibly point you in. I don’t know how much either guy would appreciate being bothered (or how much either one is actually what they say), but what’s the worst they can do… mark your e-mail as spam and have you blocked from their account? Doesn’t seem like the worst ledge you could put yourself out on.

Have you considered e-mailing Barry Zito this question? Seriously, he seems to read his e-mail (or at least someone that works for him does), and the responses, though often short and relatively flavorless, seem unique and not automated.

Step #1 get a job in any baseball organization

Step #2 excel at said job

Step #3 let your managers know that you want to move up

IIRC, Sabean started as a scout. I would imagine becoming a scout is not the most difficult thing in the world.

There is an easier way to management, though. As silly as it sounds, buy the team. It may seem like a ton of money but all the “you too can be rich people” agree that the hardest part is learning to make money. Once you have done that repeating it and growing a fortune is fairly straightforward. With that in mind, learn how to make money and buy the team. You have a 100% success rate by doing this.

By working your way up you have a very very low success rate. A much lower success rate than you would have by just earning the money yourself.

For simple stupid math: look at how many more multi-millionaires are wandering around than people in baseball management.

Though, it’s a Grad program

I’m sure you will have to study some sort of law when it comes to handling contracts and sports agents.

I’m pretty sure an email would be ignored. I would write an actual letter to Sabean at the ball park. Being a “face” in management, he probably gets tons of letters, so chances are very slim you’ll hear a reply.

A far better bet if you want to learn about the business would be to try to contact Tony Siegle, he’s had a four-decade career in baseball and probably gets 1/100th of the correspondance Sabean does.

His bio is on the front office page at the team site:
http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/team/front_office.jsp?c_id=sf

I can tell you with absolute authority… Sabean does not have an email address. He also doesn’t really use a computer. The voices of the McCoven go unheard by Sabean, though others in the office might hear you.

Where’s Josh in Hollywood? I feel like he would a perfect contributor to this thread.

1) There is no magical route to take. Sure, a sports management degree seems like it would make sense to help you, but try and find a GM that has such a degree. There are numerous minor league GM’s, but that’s a whole other type of job. You want to know the best degree to get? Economics or a statistics as having a background with programs like SAS, etc. are requirements for many teams to consider you (unless you plan on starting as a scout, in which case your best is to play at college somewhere at least)
2) If you are serious about working in baseball you need to be willing to work 100 hours a week with no weekends for very little pay and subsequently no free time for friends, fun (well, fun outside the park), etc.
3) You will need to be willing to relocate, there are two teams in the Bay Area, but there 28 other teams in North America, so the odds are better of getting a job with 1 of the 28 than just 1 of 2.
4) Start anywhere. If you can get an MLB internship anywhere, just take it, regardless of what is being done.
5) If the e-mail is really all that you want, I can confirm Sabean does have an e-mail address (although there are no guarantees as to whether he’d answer it or if he’s even the best guy to write to). I will not release his e-mail, but if you think long and hard about it, you should be able to figure it out. Nearly everyone in MLB has a similar e-mail address format, one that isn’t hard to crack. That being said, a personal letter would likely be better, especially for Sabean