“Trust the process” is an upper management slogan that has, rightfully, been exposed as sophistry here in the mid-2020s. For the Farhan Zaidi tier of executive, it has been a get out of jail card and while that kind of CYA isn’t going away, it must necessarily evolve, because fans have wised up. Buster Posey looks to be offering a new take on this classic dodge by shifting focus from numbers to vibes.
Previously, the San Francisco Giants had a player cultivation and performance process akin to assembling a gaming PC. Collecting a group of hitters who average out to x percentage of hard hit rate, y ratio of strikeouts to walk with z defensive ability and a pitching staff made up of high spin rate pitches and an average strikeouts to walk ratio of blank is, to me, no different from getting the right video card, RAM, hard disk space and speed.