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...

Giants catcher Buster Posey crept closer to emerging on top of the fan balloting among National League catchers for this year's All-Star Game, which would result in his second straight starting berth in the Midsummer Classic and his fifth spot on the NL squad overall.

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...

As the second month of the MLB season prepares to end, the All-Star Game becomes a closer and more significant part of the baseball calendar. And as ASG balloting ramps up, it is important to be an informed voter, because as is always the case, there will be plenty of big names that are not having the seasons that match. As such, it is time to pay closer attention to the best of...

Buster Posey is not about that life, apparently. Posey’s teammate Hunter Strickland got into a fight with Bryce Harper on the mound during Sunday’s game — in which the two exchanged blows — but the Giants catcher wanted no business at all in getting involved. Normally, you see a catcher stand up for his pitcher, as one of the first players to step into the line of fire, but...

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...

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...

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...