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Sabean’s tenure as the Giants general manager was the longest tenure of a general manager throughout the history of the club and was longer than Spec Richardson (seven seasons 1975-1981), Al Rosen (seven seasons from 1986 to 1992) as well as Tom Haller (five seasons, 1981-85). Sabean was the longest time with the same team among general managers currently in charge. In his time the Giants have won the three World Series (2010, 2012 and 2014) as well as Four National League pennants (2002, 2010 2012, 2002, and) as well as five National League West Division flags (1997 2000, 2001 2010, and 2012) as well as Two National League Wild Cards (2002 and 2014) and even the team to play a National League Wild Card tie-breaker match against Chicago during 1998. In two other instances the team was ejected from playoff contests on the final date of their season.
Sabean was a student at Concord High School and Eckerd College (of St. Petersburg, Florida), playing alongside former major leaguer Joe Lefebvre on both of their baseball teams. The year 1978 was the time Sabean as the field director of Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox, a professional summer baseball team from the highly regarded Cape Cod Baseball League. He was a coach assistant in Saint Leo University in 1979 as well as the University of Tampa from 1980 until 1982. In 1983, he became the the head coach in 1983 and helped lead Tampa to its first NCAA regional tournament in 1984.
Still, the 1997–2004 stretch was still a very successful time in Giants history with eight straight winning seasons. That time period overlapped with the Giants moving into Pacific Bell Park in downtown San Francisco. Because the ballpark was privately financed, the Giants were dependent on high attendance rates to pay their mortgage and remained in constant “win-now” mode.
After the Giants narrowly missed the playoffs in 2004, fans began to criticize Sabean for his player personnel moves. Sabean continued to build a team of veterans around Barry Bonds but some of them began to achieve below expectations. Edgardo Alfonzo did not put up the same offensive numbers as he did when he was with the New York Mets. Second baseman Ray Durham spent more time on the disabled list than he had previously in his career. In 2004, the Giants had not developed a homegrown position player since 2000. Sabean defended himself in a press conference, dismissing his critics as a “lunatic fringe”. Some fans took up “lunatic fringe” as a rallying cry, printing up T-shirts with the phrase and wearing them to the ballpark.
Following losing seasons in 2005 and 2006 and his signing of Barry Zito to a controversial record-setting contract, many fans and media commentators speculated that Sabean’s job could be in jeopardy if the team did not improve in 2007. Team president Peter Magowan declared before the start of 2007 season that all Giants employees were on the “hot seat”. However, the Giants rewarded Sabean with a two-year contract extension through the 2009 season following the All-Star break despite the Giants being in last place in the National League West. In previous years, Sabean had been under some pressure to put a team that could “win now” around Barry Bonds instead of rebuilding. Consequently, some critics have blamed Giants ownership and Peter Magowan for the Giants’ losing seasons instead of Sabean. After the 2006 season, Magowan and Sabean acknowledged that the previous strategy was no longer working, with Sabean saying, “Older and experienced hasn’t worked.” Pursuing a rebuilding strategy, the Giants did not re-sign Bonds after the 2007 season and drafted Madison Bumgarner and Buster Posey in the first round of the 2007 and 2008 drafts, respectively.
