BUSTER POSEY RUMORS & GOSSIP

If there has been one overused theme so far this season, it's that 2017 is a summer of great parity in Major League Baseball. Or at least, that is the sunny side up, glass half full version angle, because it has been a season where drastic cases of inconsistency and flat-out missed expectations have forced parity to the plate. While the spotlight has been on the struggles of the...

Welcome to this week's edition of Three Up, Three Down — your weekly catch-up of the three best highlights (and lowlights) from around the league. We're here for all of the cheers and the jeers, because it's baseball. You can't have a winner without someone losing along the way.(Okay, we're a few days late due to vacation. But the hot stays hot and the cold is still as cool as...

It turns out that the biggest absence from Monday’s MLB fight between Washington Nationals’ Bryce Harper and the San Francisco Giants’ Hunter Strickland may not be either player. Strickland was suspended for six games for beaning and later punching Harper, who was in turn suspended for four games for storming the mound, throwing his helmet, and punching Strickland. However...

The television camera changes everything. Imagine being broadcast at work, at school, at your local coffee shop or bar, or wherever you spend most of your time in public. Were every move to be recorded, one’s behavior (I presume) would be inclined to change. My behavior certainly would. I would want the world most often to see the best of me. It’s human nature to be liked, to...

After five hours and 28 minutes of baseball, the San Francisco Giants finally beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 on a Buster Posey walk-off dong in the 17th inning.Posey cranked a Robert Stephenson pitch 431 feet, good for his longest homer in the Statcast era. And Posey’s “finally, this stupid game is over after I just had to catch 17 freakin’ innings” reaction may have been as...

After a scary moment during Monday’s game between the Giants and Diamondbacks, early indications are that Buster Posey is doing well.In the bottom of the first inning, Posey was hit in the head by a pitch from Taijuan Walker that registered 94mph on the radar gun at AT&T Park. The Giants catcher was able to leave under his own power after a visit from manager Bruce Bochy and...

San Francisco Giants star catcher Buster Posey was removed from Monday’s game when he was hit in the head with a fastball in his first plate appearance.An 0-1 fastball clocked at 94 mph got away from Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Taijuan Walker and nailed Posey’s helmet. The good news is that Posey appeared to be okay after getting hit. He immediately popped up into a sitting...

The St. Louis Cardinals heard Yadier Molina say he was intrigued by the possibility of becoming a free agent, and they apparently didn’t like it.Just on Saturday, Molina said he would not negotiate a contract extension during the season and that he was intrigued by the possibility of becoming a free agent.Two days later, FanRag Sports’ Jon Heyman reports that the sides are making...

San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey on Monday night took to Instagram to post a heartfelt tribute to Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, a Navy SEAL who died over the weekend in Yemen.Owens was killed during an intelligence-gathering raid on al Qaeda militants when his aircraft experienced a “hard landing,” according to Pentagon officials per an NBC News report...

San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey laid it all on the line for his team on Monday night, but he may be paying for it in the future. The team’s game against the Marlins was tied 7-7 in the eleventh inning, and Posey was so determined to get to third base after a Brandon Crawford single that he slid toward it head-first. Unfortunately, his face hit the base first, and then...