It didn’t take long for the first news of the offseason to break. Wednesday night, roughly 18 hours after the final out of the World Series, The Athletic’s Andrew Baggarly reported that Buster Posey was going to announce his retirement Thursday. Bags is one of the best beat writers in the game, so I knew it had to be true, but I didn’t want to believe it. Posey will hold a press conference today at 3 p.m. PT.
There are plenty of questions to be asked about this surprising decision, such as: Why would Posey, after his resurgent 2021 season, walk away from the $22 million option the Giants surely would pick up?