San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey will miss the 2018 MLB All-Star Game due to a hip injury.
NBC Sports Bay Area's Alex Pavlovic provided the context behind the issue:
Alex PavlovicBuster Posey will miss the All-Star Game. For about a month, Giants have planned for him to get injection during break to try and calm inflammation in right hip. That explains why he has missed so many games.
Posey was named as a reserve for the National League on Sunday. Without him, the NL has two other catchers, Willson Contreras and J.