SAN FRANCISCO — Gripping two aluminum Budweiser bottles in his hands, Willson Contreras walked up to Theo Epstein with a big smile and dumped beer all over the boss’s head in the middle of a TV interview last October.
Contreras stood in roughly the same spot as that wild clubhouse celebration on Monday afternoon at AT&T Park, no longer wearing Oakley goggles above his eyes or enjoying the playoff ride as a rookie catcher. More and more, this is becoming his team, to the point where there might not be another catcher you would rather build around.
Buster Posey still owns those three World Series rings from the San Francisco Giants.