thelesterlee
Last season, Buster Posey took the year off due to the whole global pandemic thing that baseball did not handle well at all. In 2019, Posey had clearly declined and was no longer in the discussion as one of the best catchers in baseball.
At age 34 and in his 11th season of major league baseball, Buster Posey is having one of his best seasons ever.
.@BusterPosey puts the Giants on the board. pic.twitter.com/CuCDtg3MCX
— MLB (@MLB) June 17, 2021
Posey is batting .337 with 12 homers, 26 RBIs and a 173 wRC+. The most home runs he ever hit in a season was 24 back in 2012. He won the NL MVP that season. Posey is already halfway to his best home run total and it’s mid-June.
This is the first season that Posey is totally healthy with no nagging injuries and he’s putting up his best slashing numbers.
It seemed like he was falling off a cliff but perhaps that Covid year off gave him the time he needed to recover.
For comparison’s sake, when Joe Mauer was 34 years old, he had already moved over to full time first base or DH and only hit 7 homers in 141 games played. Maybe Mauer is from a slightyyyy older generation but there’s really no modern day catcher like Posey. Yadier Molina is the only other player that comes to mind and he’s like, 58 years old.
But there’s more going on than just Posey’s resurgence. The San Francisco Giants are 43-25 and 2 games ahead of the Dodgers for the NL West lead. The Dodgers were the title favorites after adding Trevor Bauer and bringing back David Price. San Diego added Blake Snell and Yu Darvish.
And both those teams are helpless to stop Buster fucking Posey. The Giants have the 2nd most home runs in baseball. That’s more home runs than Slam Diego and the Mookie Betts/Cody Bellinger-led Dodgers.
Buster Posey is probably going to start the All Star game for the National League. It’s 2021. (HGH back???)
