#BUSTER POSEY RETIREMENT SPEECH SERIES#

His Hall of Fame candidacy in five years will be hotly debated. It's impossible to tell the story of the 2010s without Posey's contributions to the Giants and the game of baseball.

#BUSTER POSEY RETIREMENT SPEECH SERIES#

He was the backbone for three World Series titles, won 2010 NL Rookie of the Year, 2012 NL MVP and was a seven-time NL All-Star.įarhan Zaidi provides Giants managerial search update, timeline While other catchers of this generation have put up better numbers and might have more individual awards, Posey was the foundation for the Giants turning their franchise around. That's pretty cool that he gets to do that and spend some time with his beautiful family. I'm happy for him and congratulations on his retirement. Not just how they play, obviously, because Buster was really good at that, but just how they go about the game, how they play, how they interact with their teammates and different things like that, Buster is at the top of the list for me. 'And now that I've got some boys, I always think about guys I would want them to emulate their game after. We've had our tiffs in the past with other teams in the division, a lot of different things, but I've always admired Buster from afar, I've always thought he carried himself on the field really, really well. When you play against a guy for a long time and you're part of the rivalry that is the Giants and Dodgers, obviously there's some built-in animosity towards the other team. 'I just have all the respect in the world for him,' Kershaw told NBC Sports Bay Area's Laura Britt and George Kontos. Kershaw, fresh off the Dodgers' NLCS exit against the Atlanta Braves, took time Thursday to speak to NBC Sports Bay Area about what he admires about Posey. The two future Hall of Famers sparred 120 times since 2010, with Posey going 25-for-113 with three doubles, three homers, 10 RBI, 19 strikeouts, six walks and one hit-by-pitch. There is no one Posey faced more during his iconic MLB career than Kershaw.

Posey made his retirement official Thursday, announcing that after 12 MLB seasons with the Giants, he was calling it a career. There will be no more on-field battles between Buster Posey and Clayton Kershaw.

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