Major League Baseball adopted a rule limiting home plate collisions ahead of the 2014 season after Posey's injury caused a reassessment.
BUSTER POSEY WIFE RACY SERIES
In all, he won World Series titles in 2010, '12 and '14. Posey responded by winning the 2012 batting crown and MVP honours while leading the Giants to a second World Series championship in a three-year span. He tore three ligaments in his left ankle and broke a bone in his lower leg when he was run over by the Marlins' Scott Cousins on May 25, 2011.
The 2010 NL Rookie of the Year, Posey came back from a devastating, season-ending leg injury in 2011 to win NL MVP the following year. Posey said he easily could have called it a career five years ago and credited the training staff for keeping him on the field. 304 with 18 homers and 56 RBIs, resilient down the stretch as his body was feeling it though he showed his surgically repaired right hip had finally healed three years after surgery. "Just gave myself some space in my mind to be OK with deciding otherwise if I wanted to keep playing and I really just never wavered." Overcame injuries, won 3 World Series titlesĮven after he batted. "I kind of went into this last season feeling like it might be my last," Posey said. The Giants had been prepared to exercise Posey's $22 million US club option for 2022 if he wanted to play, but he had an inkling before this record-setting, 107-win Giants season started this could be it. I can honestly say no, playing the way I did didn't sway me, and I think that's part of the reason that I do feel at peace with my decision."
"I didn't approach the season and say this is definitely it. "I think the year off probably did play into the decision a little bit," Posey said. The pull that way has been there a while now for the seven-time All-Star. "I want to be able to do more stuff from February to November with my family," he said.
Posey opted out of the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season after he and wife Kristen adopted prematurely born baby girls to join older twins Addison and Lee. Part of the reason he is walking away at 34 after one of his best seasons yet is to spend more time with his four children. WATCH | Canadians play key roles in Atlanta's World Series victory:ĭuration 2:31 CBC’s Jacqueline Doorey breaks down the contributions of Atlanta’s GM Alex Anthopoulos and first baseman Freddie Freeman, as both Canadians played instrumental roles on and off the field in leading Atlanta to its first World Series title since 1995. "There's parents and there's grandparents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, cousins that can still remember exactly where they were when Edgar Renteria hit the game-winning homer in Texas that led the 2010 San Francisco Giants to their first World Series title." They actually might be adults now," Posey said. "I'm sure there are kids out there today who have watched me play my entire career. The popular catcher offered a heartfelt goodbye to baseball on Thursday following a decorated 12-year career with the Giants during which he won three World Series championships and guided a long list of star pitchers, but also an equally impressive career off the field such as his tireless commitment to pediatric cancer and helping others. If it impacts one person in a positive way it's worth your time." But as the years have passed I've realized just how impactful that can be. "It's probably something early in my career that I thought was a waste of time," Posey shared. He appreciates his place in leaving lasting memories for families to cherish and pass down, and what he means to connecting a community - and even all those Bay Area dogs out there named Buster and Posey. Initially, as a young player more than a decade ago, Buster Posey had a tough time understanding how the San Francisco Giants strive to humanize their players, to connect them with a fan base that wants nothing more than to get to know the star athletes it supports.
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