SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Buster Posey's spring training office, at one corner of a sprawling indoor facility attached to Scottsdale Stadium, is nondescript and mostly barren, save for some apparel boxes that have stacked up behind his desk. The walls are noticeably empty, devoid of mementos from a catching career that included an MVP, a Gold Glove and five Silver Sluggers. The only hint that one of the most celebrated players in San Francisco Giants history now occupies a space reserved for the head of baseball operations is a nameplate outside the door.
Posey, six days shy of his 38th birthday and less than six months removed from accepting a job few people of his stature have ever taken on, spent a dozen years trying to will the Giants to victory.