He’s watching the Giants whenever he can and he’s impressed at the poise that rookie catcher Joey Bart has demonstrated behind the plate, saying, “I’m not seeing the body language you might have seen a couple years ago. ![]() He was ready to give more as a father and husband and as the most overqualified youth baseball and softball coach in the Bay Area. He could have kept playing - how many people receive a Silver Slugger Award on their retirement appreciation day? - but he had given enough to the game. I just want to tell you how thankful I am for letting me play in front of you for the last 12 years.” Right now it’s an opportunity for me to thank you, fans, for letting me be a part of that, for letting my teammates be a part of that. “This was about me being a part of something. “I never thought this was about me,” Posey said to the crowd of 40,113 gathered at the waterfront ballpark at 24 Willie Mays Plaza. He knew when he needed to remain a puddle of still water as a stadium shook around him.Īnd he knew he needed to do one final thing on an afternoon that the Giants marketed as Buster Posey Day but, to his mind, was less for him and more for everyone else. He knew when he needed to harness useful adrenaline and when to discard the anxiety that didn’t serve a purpose. He knew when he needed to grind a little harder or boost a pitcher’s confidence or play the day game after a night game. ![]() He knew when he needed to show an opposing hitter a pitch in order to set up another. He knew when he needed to challenge a teammate. He knew when he needed to sprint with all he had. “I could run when I needed to, OK?”īuster Posey always knew when he needed to. “First of all, I heard some people joking about my speed,” Posey said. After Posey took the field with his family and acknowledged the sustained applause on a sunny Saturday afternoon, after all the speeches and plaudits from Bruce Bochy and Bengie Molina and Matt Cain, among others, and after he finally stood in front of the microphone to bring closure to a career that ended so abruptly to so many of his fans in November when he announced his retirement as a still-Silver Slugging 34-year-old, Posey began by swallowing a smile.
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