GM assistant tigers resigned in the midst of an investigation into obscene photos that would have been sent to employees

Sam Menzin, an assistant director of Detroit Tigers, resigned little time on Thursday before the team warned it to dismiss him for bad behavior in the workplace. Team officials did not specify the conduct of Menzin, but Athletics spoke to two former employees of tigers who said that Menzin had sent them unsolicited obscene photos.

In an answer to questions about Menzin’s alleged reprehensible acts, the team said in a statement: “After being informed of allegations concerning the conduct of Sam Menzin, the club quickly completed an investigation.

Danny Rosengard, a human resources manager for the team whose title is “a business partner of compliance and investigation”, was in contact with women as recently as last week, asking if they had received obscene photos, according to sources.

Menzin said in an SMS on Friday that he was looking for a career change and moved to New York to manage “certain family problems”. He did not answer calls and SMS asking for comments on Monday.

Two women working for the tigers said Athletics That Menzin, 34, sent them photos of his genitals via Snapchat, an application where the images are visualized and then deleted automatically. The two women said they received unlined obscene photos from Menzin on several occasions, going back to at least 2017. A third woman working in baseball but not for Tigers said that around 2018-2019, she also received unlined photos from Menzin via Snapchat, including “secondary profiles” of her genitals.

Athletics Talked to individuals that these three women told the photos shortly after saying that it happened, and they relayed the substance of these conversations.

One of the women who worked for the tigers, when they were asked why Menzin’s reprehensible acts had not revealed earlier, replied: “It was as if no one said that nothing because who will believe them when they say that Sam Menzin did this? It is not like a boy of bat or a security guard. It is Sam Menzin.” She added that very few women worked at the front office, and “I always felt like I was saying was not an option, because who will believe you and do anything? It is just that general feeling that (reporting something) was not an option.”

Menzin was with the Tigers for 13 years and went from the bottom of the front office to the deputy director general. Former Swarthor College launcher, Menzin did an internship with the New York Mets and Turner-Gary Sports before starting his career with Tigers in 2012 as a baseball operations trainee. Menzin was promoted to analyst and coordinator of baseball operations under the former director general Dave Dombrowski and was considered as an integral part of the modernization of the tigers of their department and the adoption of analytics. He became the Director of Baseball Operations for the Team and Professional Scouting in 2015. In 2019, he was on Athletics“35 Under 35” from the list of baseball arrivals.

By 2021, Menzin was promoted to deputy managing director and helped supervise installation upgrades and often traveled with the team. In 2022, the Tigers hired Scott Harris as president of the baseball operations, and Menzin remained an assistant managing director, serving under his third main framework.

In 2023, Menzin was part of the Take The Field annual program of Major League Baseball, a two -day event organized during winter meetings that help women who are at university or recent graduates to obtain positions in the MLB. Menzin told MLB.com that he had attended the six landscaping events.

“There are so many people who are impatient to get into baseball, and they just don’t know how,” Menzin told MLB.com. “It is a great way for them to set foot in the door, to meet people, with a network.

Menzin stayed with the tigers throughout this year’s spring training and in the team’s opening road trip this season. He worked a full day on Thursday, the day before Tigers’ home opening at Comerica Park and interacted with other employees as usual, sources said. Thursday evening, Athletics Menzin said Menzin had resigned.

(Photo graceful of Strait Tigers)