Insider Reveals Why Giants Traded Patrick Bailey

The Buster Posey/Tony Vitello era has not gotten off to a great start with the San Francisco Giants.

Despite picking up a 7-3 win over the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers last night, the Giants still sit at a disappointing 17-24 on the season and in fourth place in the NL West.

The offense, in particular, has been the main factor in San Francisco's disappointing start to the season, as they have scored three runs or fewer in 24 games this year and have been shut out eight times.

Posey hoped this would be the year the Giants would take that huge step, having missed the playoffs in the last five seasons despite all the talent on the roster and the free agency and trade acquisitions they have made.

While it's still early to determine whether or not the Giants will make any significant moves to their roster, one of the first chips fell this past week when they traded catcher Patrick Bailey to the Cleveland Guardians on May 9. Even though that may have been an indication that the Giants may look to deal more players as the season progressed, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic offered a different perspective on why they moved on from their catcher.

During an appearance on the Foul Territory podcast, Rosenthal revealed that Bailey and Posey did not get along much, and this trade may have been inevitable.

"They wanted to open up playing time for [Daniel] Susac, who's coming off the IL, and Jesus Rodriguez, and frankly, they were fed up with Patrick Bailey and his inability to hit and some of the defensive stuff as well," Rosenthal said. "It was never copacetic necessarily between him and Buster Posey."