SAN FRANCISCO — Sometimes it’s easy to see the way an injury affected a team. Seven years ago, Buster Posey got run over at the plate, and the Giants lost their most important player in the blink of an eye. But in 2018, it wasn’t nearly as black and white.
Technically, Posey was out there 105 times. But he wasn’t truly Buster Posey.
A hip injury robbed Posey of the ability to consistently use his lower half in his swing, and sapped him of pretty much all of the power that remains after a decade in the squat.