One day in early November, Buster Posey felt his body respond more normally again as he rehabilitated from season-ending hip surgery. Working out his lower half with a 15-pound dumbbell in his left hand he leaned forward for a one-legged Russian Dead Lift. Posey felt the muscles in his right buttocks being used exactly the way they should.
"This might be TMI," San Francisco's star catcher noted of perhaps providing too much information. "I could really feel the right side of my gluteus maximus engage — hadn't really felt that in a while. With all leg exercises I feel like things have been more symmetrical, so hopefully that's a good sign.