Buster Posey RUMORS & NEWS

San Francisco Chronicle "This being the era of instantaneous analysis, it took only seconds for someone to jump on Twitter and write, "Bruce Bochy: Giraffe Whisperer." The joke made the rounds even as Brandon Belt was checking his body for serious bruising after the customary pounding a player absorbs after ending a game..." April 23

San Francisco Chronicle "The Giants and Buster Posey: a marriage built to last. The team Friday announced an eight-year, $159 million contract extension for the 2012 National League batting champion and Most Valuable Player that assures Posey will remain a Giant through 2021, when he is 34. Posey's new contract..." March 30

CBSSports.com "The Giants and All-Star catcher Buster Posey have agreed on an eight-year contract extension that will keep him with the Giants through the 2021 season. The deal is nine years total (including this season, for which he was obviously already signed) and $167 million. The deal is the longest..." March 29

CBSSports.com "The Giants and superstar catcher Buster Posey are in serious discussions about a long-term deal, CBSSports.com has learned. The details are unknown, but Posey and the Giants have been discussing a long deal, as reported here earlier this week. It is believed he had been seeking a deal to make..." March 29

San Francisco Chronicle "The most amusing thing about Buster Posey's commercial for the new PlayStation MLB '13 video game isn't that Posey delivers his lines perfectly. Though that's a rare accomplishment for any professional athlete, you can assume that Posey will go into all ventures fully prepared. No, the most..." March 10

San Francisco Chronicle "Buster Posey's MVP season in 2012 made it easier to forget how shattered and torn his lower left leg was the year before and how much work the training staff did to get him back onto the field. "I'm still amazed where he's at as far as the injury," manager Bruce Bochy said Thursday after watching..." February 15

CSN Bay Area "When a Giants fan asked Buster Posey what position he’d like to play other than catcher, the former Florida State closer offered a sly smile. “I’d like to try it out on the bump and see what I have,” Posey said. OK, Tim Lincecum. Same question. “To be honest, when I was a kid, I always..." February 10

San Francisco Chronicle "Buster Posey's value to the Giants is easy to quantify. With him, they're two-time champions. Without him, they're not a playoff team. So the key to 2013 seems clear: Keep the reigning National League MVP on the field. While it's overly simplistic to suggest that the Giants will go as far as..." February 10

Foxsports.com "Good luck to the San Francisco Giants trying to figure out what catcher Buster Posey is worth long term. It's not a stretch to imagine Posey replacing Derek Jeter as the game's standard-bearer. Heck, the 25-year-old Posey already is more accomplished than Jeter at a comparable stage of his..." January 23

CSN Bay Area "The Giants have been busy this morning, avoiding arbitration with four players. Andrew Baggarly has confirmed the Chronicle's earlier report that the team has agreed with catcher Buster Posey on a one-year, $8 million deal. Heyman also reports outfielder Hunter Pence will return to the..." January 18

McCovey Chronicles "Buster Posey will be on the Giants through 2016. That's the most important point of this article. No matter what happens, no matter how pricy he gets, how acrimonious the negotiations become, Posey's here for the next four seasons if the Giants want him. That's a long time to wait and evaluate,..." January 07

San Francisco Chronicle "How good is Buster Posey? A great start to a career is no guarantee of greatness. I submit exhibits A and B - Fred Lynn and Pablo Sandoval. We have yet to see what Buster Ballgame can do while fully healthy for a full season. He played 108 games his rookie season, then 45 games in 2011..." November 18

San Jose Mercury News "On Thursday afternoon, Buster Posey was named the Most Valuable Player in the National League. This came as a stunning surprise to almost nobody. Probably not even to Posey. He claimed to be grasping for his thoughts upon hearing the news, but then made an acceptance speech worthy of a seasoned..." November 17

San Francisco Chronicle ""The Buster Posey Story" continued on Thursday, but by this point in the plot you have to wonder whether the screenwriters might be laying it on a little thick. "It's like a movie," closer Brian Wilson said way back in 2010, when the opening credits were just starting to roll. "Like 'The Buster..." November 16

Hardball Talk "The Giants' Buster Posey was the runaway winner for National League Most Valuable Player honors Thursday, claiming 27 of the 32 first-place votes. Posey was listed in the top three on every ballot to finish with 422 points. Milwaukee's Ryan Braun came in second place with three first-place..." November 15

San Francisco Chronicle "In a result that should surprise nobody, Giants catcher Buster Posey has won the National League Most Valuable Player award, adding this coveted honor to his 2010 Rookie of the Year and 2012 Comeback Player of the Year honors. Posey won with 27 first-place out of 32 members of the Baseball..." November 15

McCovey Chronicles "Last year, shortly after the injury, SB Nation published an article from a doctor who suggested Buster Posey could come back in time for the playoffs. This was a sliver of hope, see. I tweeted a link out, just as anyone still in stage one of the Kübler-Ross stages of grief might have done. There..." November 15

St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Only two previous catchers have led the National League in batting average in a season and one of them, Cincinnati's Ernie Lombardi, was named the league's Most Valuable Player in 1938 after hitting .342. Lombardi also topped the league in 1942 for Boston and catcher Bubbles Hargrave led in..." November 12

CSN Bay Area "Giants' catcher Buster Posey has been named one of five finalists for the National League's Most Valuable Player award, Major League Baseball announced Wednesday. Posey led all of baseball with a .336 batting average to go along with a team-high 24 home runs and 103 RBIs and helped the Giants..." November 08

Brew Crew Ball "I just received the following press release from Howard Cole, Director of the IBWAA: Los Angeles - The Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) announced its 2012 Most Valuable Player Awards Monday, electing Buster Posey in the National League and Miguel Cabrera in the American..." November 05

San Jose Mercury News "As his last act of 2012, Buster Posey exploded out of his catcher's crouch, sprinted to the mound and hoisted 185-pound reliever Sergio Romo over his shoulder. Apparently, Posey's ankle is going to be OK. After nothing but pain and frustration a year ago, Posey capped his comeback in the..." October 29

CSN Bay Area "Last year, Buster Posey was on the shelf. This year, his shelf is getting awfully crowded. It will be 20 more days until the NL Most Valuable Player Award is announced, for which Posey is considered a heavy favorite. But the Giants' cleanup-hitting catcher took home one heck of a satisfying..." October 28

MLB.com "Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers and Buster Posey of the Giants paused from their Game 3 preparations on Saturday at Comerica Park to accept the Hank Aaron Award as the outstanding offensive performer in their respective leagues -- the first time in the presentation's history that both winners were..." October 28

MLB.com "Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers and Buster Posey of the Giants paused from their Game 3 preparations on Saturday at Comerica Park to each accept the Hank Aaron Award as the outstanding offensive performer in their respective leagues -- the first time in the presentation's history that both winners..." October 27

San Jose Mercury News "Buster Posey had the best seat in the house for the best performances in the Giants' 8-3 victory over Detroit in Game 1 of the World Series. Posey caught both Barry Zito and Tim Lincecum on Wednesday night, the two guys a month ago nobody thought he could catch. Then he was in the on-deck..." October 25

Hardball Talk "Giants backup catcher Hector Sanchez made one start in the NLDS against the Reds and another in the NLCS versus the Cardinals. But the 22-year-old is unlikely to catch at all during the World Series. Giants manager Bruce Bochy told Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday that..." October 24

St. Louis Post-Dispatch "A bat in hand, San Francisco Giants cleanup hitter Buster Posey had only a minute to spare Monday before his turn came to work on a swing that will win awards and make him millions. He used it to consider the Cardinals Yadier Molina, a fellow catcher, and what he does so well with the less..." October 17

San Francisco Chronicle "Buster Posey isn't terribly fond of pies in the face, shaving-cream antics or shenanigans in general. When the really crazy stuff goes down in the Giants' clubhouse, he's usually elsewhere, bone dry. But not Thursday. Not after one of the greatest wins in franchise history. Teammates made sure..." October 12

San Francisco Chronicle "Had the A's not celebrated a Hollywood ending and won their division, the most remarkable baseball story in Bay Area baseball Wednesday would have been the National League batting championship that Buster Posey won with a .336 average. Posey went 0-for-2 in a 5-1 loss, which ended the Giants'..." October 04

CSN Bay Area "Giants manager Bruce Bochy made an interesting comment when discussing Buster Posey's athleticism and his above average defense at first base despite little experience. "I think he could play third," Bochy said. "That's how athletic I think he is." File away that thought. It's not the first..." October 03

CSN Bay Area "As much as the Giants would love to eliminate their archrivals, their top priority over this final series at Dodger Stadium is to remain healthy for postseason play. So even though Buster Posey's back spasms were believed to be minor and his exit merely a precaution after eight innings, it's no..." October 02

San Francisco Chronicle "Among Giants who predominately were catchers, Buster Posey became the third since 1900 to collect 100 RBIs in a season. His third-inning single that scored Angel Pagan also made him the first Giant to reach 100 since Barry Bonds in 2004 and first by a National League catcher since Javy Lopez in..." September 27

CSN Bay Area "Bruce Bochy set a career-high in RBIs with 22 on Sept. 8, 1986. Six months later, Buster Posey was born. Twenty-five years later, Posey became just the third Giants catcher since 1900 to drive in 100 runs in a single season. "I didn't know that; that's pretty cool," Posey said when told he..." September 27

CSN Bay Area "In the words of Giants manager Bruce Bochy, "you'll probably see some tweaking here real soon" as he aligns his rotation for the postseason. But Bochy doesn't plan to coast over these final nine games. He penned a regular lineup for Tuesday's series opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks and..." September 26

San Francisco Chronicle "If Buster Posey wants to participate in the World Baseball Classic in spring training next year, the Giants wouldn't stand in his way. "I could envision him being one of the catchers on the U.S. team. I would think he would view it as an honor," said team president Larry Baer, who would have..." September 26

McCovey Chronicles "Barry Bonds won only seven MVPs. That kind of makes the whole award suspect, you know? We probably shouldn't care so much about who wins. But, yeah, I'd stab a drifter if it would help Buster Posey's candidacy. I haven't felt this strongly about an award since Tim Lincecum's first Cy Young,..." September 19

CSN Bay Area "Never mind the sleep deprivation Friday afternoon. Buster Posey couldn't believe how hot, humid and suffocatingly still the air felt at Wrigley Field. "It was as high as I've felt it this year, including Atlanta, Philly and Washington," said Posey, after the Giants' 6-4 loss to the Cubs. "I was..." September 01

McCovey Chronicles "There comes a time when I have to fly free, unencumbered by the shackles of McCovey Chronicles groupthink. We're all sheep here, right? We all like the same music and movies, and we all totally agree on everything baseball-related. Yep. Every single one of us, right down to our distaste for the..." August 23

San Francisco Chronicle "Wednesday's game against the Dodgers was crucial. Like any head-to-head matchup, it meant a two-game swing in the standings. So, was manager Bruce Bochy tempted to test fate and have Buster Posey play on a tight hamstring as the catcher had hoped? "No," Bochy said. "You rely on your medical..." August 23

Hardball Talk "From Andrew Baggarly of CSN Bay Area comes word that Giants catcher Buster Posey has been scratched from the starting lineup Wednesday night against the Dodgers because of a hamstring injury. Giants manager Bruce Bochy told reporters that it's only tightness. Posey was able to make four plate..." August 22

San Francisco Chronicle "The Giants' offense has struggled at home this season, and nobody puts it in perspective like Buster Posey. Others can say it's the dimensions. Or the elements. Or the anxiety. Or the uniforms. Posey's explanation: "Just one of those things." And he meant every word. Keeping it simple is..." August 12

CSN Bay Area "Buster Posey's free video game is available for your iPhone, and here's a quick review: "Buster Bash" is mildly addicting. The first level, set in Buster's boyhood backyard in Leesburg, Ga., is easy. After that, you need to use accumulated "sunflower seeds" to equip yourself with better bats,..." August 08

San Jose Mercury News "San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey is the first Major League Baseball player to develop and market his own official mobile game, offering a free game called "Buster Bash" for Apple (AAPL) mobile devices. The game, available in Apple's iTunes store Monday morning, offers fans the chance..." August 07

CSN Bay Area "The Giants knew in spring training that Buster Posey would station himself well in front of the dish on plays at the plate. They knew his ultra-conservative positioning would mean a few extra runs would score in 2012. It was a bargain they were willing to make. As left-hander Madison..." July 29

San Jose Mercury News "For a team that played 12 innings the previous day in Philadelphia and then took a 3,000-mile flight home, the Giants showed few signs of jet lag Monday night. In fact, the Giants lifted off on a 10-game homestand with one of their most sparkling all-around performances of the year, a 7-1..." July 24

San Francisco Chronicle "Manager Bruce Bochy forcefully rejected the notion that he is reluctant to have Buster Posey catch Tim Lincecum, terming as "completely false" a report that they will not be paired this season. The issue arose when Bochy had just-promoted Eli Whiteside catch Lincecum on Friday night. Hector..." July 21

San Francisco Chronicle "For Buster Posey, whose quotes are purposely bland, this was a strong statement. Once again, manager Bruce Bochy decided to have Hector Sanchez catch Barry Zito on Tuesday night even after saying Posey would get the start. The Giants, it seemed, might go the rest of the season with an All-Star..." July 18

San Francisco Chronicle "When Buster Posey made his Turner Field debut in 2010, three hours from his hometown, friends, relatives and the local press all wanted a piece of him, and he went 1-for-11 in a four-game series. In the opener of his second regular-season series here Tuesday night, he took a big slice out of the..." July 18

San Jose Mercury News "Matt Cain will start. And for that, Buster Posey is relieved. Posey expected to be using his catcher's mitt as a butterfly net at the All-Star Game on Tuesday night, where he faced the prospect of snaring floating pitches from New York Mets right-hander R.A. Dickey. "I've never caught a..." July 10