Meet Buster Posey

The Catcher is the most important player on a baseball team.  The Catcher is someone who should see things develop before the play even begins in a similar fashion to how Tom Brady and Peyton Manning read defenses and then call the game accordingly. The Catcher is someone who should be mentally tough enough to crouch inches from where 90 mile an hour pitches meet the worlds fastest bat speeds, often causing tips off the catcher’s helmet. He needs to be strong enough to block the plate when a 250-pound base runner is coming at full force from third.  Finding someone to do all these things flawlessly on your team is as rare as finding a franchise QB, and finding a batting champion to do it is unprecedented. Meet Buster Posey, the 25-year-old catcher for the San Francisco Giants who in his 3-year career has established the reality that if he’s healthy, the Giants win the World Series. In 2010 The Giants shocked the world by winning their first ever Championship on the west coast, a triumph that was mostly credited to the superb starting pitching led by two-time Cy Young award winner Tim Lincecum, the consistent door slamming pitching of closer Brian Wilson, and a group of castaways that gelled together at the right time.  Now, two years later, Lincecum has been reduced to the bullpen, Wilson missed the majority of the season to recover from surgery, Pat Burrell, Edgar Renteria and Cody Ross have moved on, Hunter Pence, Angel Pagan and Marco Scutero came aboard,  and the most significant similarity between the 2010 Giants and 2012 Giants is the cerebral game calling and offensive production of Buster Posey. I’m not insinuating that the Giants will win the World Series every year with a healthy Posey, but as is the case with any franchise QB, with a team built around him they will always be legitimate contenders. 

AND THAT'S THE BRUTAL TRUTH!