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After 30 seasons with the Giants and overseeing three World Series championships, Brian Sabean is headed back to the New York Yankees.
The Yankees announced on Tuesday that Sabean, 66, has been named executive advisor to senior vice president and general manager Brian Cashman.
Sabean, who led the Giants’ baseball operations department from 1996-2018, spent the past four seasons as an executive vice president with the franchise, working on strategic initiatives as a senior advisor and evaluator. Sabean shifted to an executive vice president role when Farhan Zaidi took over a restructured front office as president of baseball operations after the 2018 season. The role allowed Sabean to spend much of his time scouting and evaluating players.
Sabean spent the first eight seasons of his career with the Yankees, starting as a scout in 1985 before serving as the Director of Scouting from 1986-90 and Vice President of Player Development and Scouting from 1990-92. It was during his tenure with the Yankees that the franchise drafted franchise icons Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada.
Sabean joined the Giants in 1993 as assistant to the general manager and vice president of scouting player personnel under Bob Quinn. He succeeded Quinn as the Giants’ GM in 1996. He was the Giants’ general manager from 1996 until 2014, then was promoted to executive vice president of baseball operations from 2015-18.
With Sabean calling the shots, the Giants posted winning records in 13 of 18 seasons and reached the playoffs eight times. Sabean’s Giants won five division titles, four National League pennants and the only World Series titles in the franchise’s San Francisco history.
Sabean joins former Chicago Cubs GM Jim Hendry as an adviser to Cashman in a front office that includes assistant general managers Jean Afterman and Mike Fishman, and vice presidents Damon Oppenheimer (domestic amateur scouting), Kevin Reese (player development) and Tim Naehring (baseball operations). Hendry joined the Yankees before the 2012 season as a special assignment scout.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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