10 years of Buster Posey

Buster Posey came along at the perfect time. The Giants’ Face of the Franchise position had been vacated at the end of 2007 by Ryan Klesko (do not fact check this) and the organization was still trying to to delay the introduction of sabermetrics. The multi-hyphenate Florida State super star checked all the boxes a traditionalist could draw on a scouting form and a computer could generate in a spreadsheet.

Every bit of video showed him to be a tenacious player on the field and an aww-schucks personality off it and that combination is the kind of grounded yet marketable star power the Giants were looking for. There are no guarantees in the MLB Draft and the Giants could only hope that signing…