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[Mike B]

https://sports.yahoo...-222522539.html

Apparently there was other baseball news today. Less fun, but a hell of a lot more important.

Good for her.  I hope she does well and I hope they give her a chance to do significant stuff.

[DJ MC]

https://twitter.com/...803824679571458

[BSLChrisStoner]

@JeffPassan

San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey has opted out of the 2020 season. Posey, a former NL MVP and six-time All-Star, had missed the last few days of workouts as he contemplated his decision.

[Mackus]

Wow, he's got "recently adopted identical twin girls who were born prematurely" at home.

 

I just feel like in the current state that we are right now and these babies being as fragile as they are for the next four months, at minimum, this ultimately wasn't that difficult a decision for me

 

Good for him, for multiple reasons.

[NickStevens]

Good for him and nothing but best wishes to his new daughters.  

 

Get ready for Joey Bart season in SF!

[SportsGuy]

Good for him and nothing but best wishes to his new daughters.  
 
Get ready for Joey Bart season in SF!

Could end up being a blessing in disguise for SF.

[Pedro Cerrano]

Good for him and nothing but best wishes to his new daughters.  

 

Get ready for Joey Bart season in SF!

 

I have one of his 1st bowman chrome short prints (baseball card nerdry lol) into BGS for grading.

 

Here's hoping for a great rookie season!

[BSLChrisStoner]

FanGraphs: The Big Kevin Gausman Breakout Has Arrived

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CBS Sports: MLB rumors: Giants have discussed Trevor Bauer
https://www.cbssport...r-greg-holland/

[BSLChrisStoner]

FanGraphs: The Giants Have Quietly Rebuilt Their Rotation

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[BSLChrisStoner]

Kris Bryant to the Giants.

[Mackus]

Bryant the Gyant has a fun ring to it.

[BSLChrisStoner]

CBS Sports: How Giants' Logan Webb helped propel San Francisco to NL West lead over Dodgers

https://www.cbssport...d-over-dodgers/

[BSLChrisStoner]

• Giants ace Gausman plays pinch-hit hero in 11th

[BSLChrisStoner]

ESPN: The San Francisco Giants just keep surprising us

https://www.espn.com...p-surprising-us

[BSLChrisStoner]

The Ringer: Your Playoff Guide to the 2021 Giants: The Oldest, Unlikeliest, and Best Team in Baseball

[makoman]

Buster Posey to retire. Interesting HOF case, I didn't realize his overall stats were fairly modest, mainly due to only 10 full years with even some of those short. He's a catcher though. On its face he seems better than Thurman Munson (out), worse than Roy Campanella (in). By fWAR he kills both (57 to 40ish) and by bWAR it's Munson-Posey-Campanella but it's close. Of course both of the others' careers were cut short by tragic accidents, and Campanella's MLB career was shorter still due to segregation while he was one of the best players in the Negro League. 

 

ETA: I should have added my opinion. Maybe he'll get in and if so I'm good with that. Short career relatively, but very good during it, and 3 rings is something they like. I'd probably prefer Mauer as being similar hitting with more longevity, but 129 OPS+ and good defense as a mostly catcher is really nice. Other than Piazza and Gene Tenace best OPS+ of any catcher who retired since 1950.

[BobPhelan]

Easily a HOF’er for me.

[Mackus]

I think he gets in easily as well.  Very easy to forgive catchers for lack of longevity, IMO.  Especially given the gruesome injury that he had.

 

Fangraphs has him 8th all time in WAR among catchers.