“When Buster speaks, the catching drill stops and everybody listens. “When Buster is in the bullpen working with our catching coach, Craig Albernaz, he is also mindful of the other catchers,” Kapler said. Technology has made that much easier to accomplish. Kapler said he hopes Posey can still help the club in some way this season without endangering his or his babies’ health.
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He helped lead the Giants to three World Series championships in five seasons.Įven with his offense numbers fading over the past several seasons, his absence leaves a huge void in the middle of the lineup and particularly behind the plate, where he remains one of the game’s best receivers and game callers. Posey was the 2010 National League Rookie of the Year and won the batting title and National League Most Valuable Player award in 2012. In one case, they even welcomed the baby only to have the birth parents change their mind after several days. Posey revealed that he and Kristen thought they were adopting babies on several occasions. He said he, Kristen and their 8-year-old twins Lee and Addie were “overwhelmed with joy” to have two new babies in the family, the culmination of a long and often painful road. The 33-year-old missed the initial workout Friday and again Wednesday and Thursday. ‘What are we doing?’ That’s the thought.” I’m looking at you wearing masks on a computer screen. When summer camp opened Friday, the day that Ada and Libbi were born, Posey did not hide his reservations about playing during the pandemic, saying he felt many players were reticent to continue.Īt one point in a Zoom conference Saturday, he looked at reporters and said, “It’s such a strange time. He is due to earn about $22 million next season in the final guaranteed year of his contract. Posey could be walking away from about $8 million in salary, which the Giants are not obligated to pay under terms of an agreement between the league and the players union in March.
“We will definitely all miss him at the field, but we’ll be excited to play with him again next year.” “Despite how difficult I’m sure it was from a baseball perspective, with the spread of this virus and having two of those babies to go home to every day, it seems like it was an easy decision to make. “Life is so fragile to a prematurely born baby,” Crawford said. Shortstop Brandon Crawford, a father of four, told The Chronicle that he knew how long the Poseys have tried to adopt, with a “lot of ups and downs.” It’s a tough weight on everybody’s soul.” “That’s just a tough weight to put on your soul to come play baseball and risk their lives.
“These are two lives that are high-risk,” outfielder Hunter Pence said on a Zoom, referring to the newborns. Posey’s longstanding teammates expressed support, too. He also said Posey made an “incredible and thoughtful decision for his family, and one that makes the most sense.” “You’ve got a situation with premature adopted babies, and that’s a no-brainer,” Kapler said. Posey’s decision leaves the team with a significant void heading into a 60-game season scheduled to begin July 23, but the front office and manager Gabe Kapler said they supported it wholeheartedly because family comes first. Posey said that had the babies not been born prematurely, “I probably would be playing this season,” and he looks forward to rejoining the team in 2021. “My wife, I and our other children are just overwhelmed with joy to welcome them into our family to love them unconditionally and just share life with them.” “But after weighing it for a long time, talking to doctors, I just feel like in the current state we are in now, and these babies being as fragile as they are for the next four months at a minimum, this just ultimately was not a difficult decision for me.
“I can’t sit here and tell you that I know what is the right answer to this or the wrong answer to this,” Posey said. Posey said the girls are healthy, but their immune systems will be particularly weakened because they were born at 32 weeks, about six weeks early for a twin pregnancy. Giants catcher Buster Posey said Friday he will opt out of the 2020 season, revealing that he and wife Kristen have adopted identical-twin girls who were born prematurely last week and he does not want to endanger their health amid the pandemic. Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle Show More Show Less
Jessica Christian / The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of2 San Francisco Giants Buster Posey during a news conference at Oracle Park on Friday, Feb. Due to COVID-19, the 2020 MLB season has been postponed with players just beginning to return for warmups and practices while wearing masks and keeping social distance. 1 of2 San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey (#28) wears a mask around his chin while participating in the San Francisco Giants' summer training camp session at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif.
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