If there's anyone who loves San Francisco, it's Buster Posey. The man who spent his entire career with the Giants is today a shareholder of the club.
But above all, he became the reference for the following sentence: “The Giants haven't had a star since Buster Posey. »
It's not for lack of trying, though. Carlos Correa (!) and Aaron Judge were in the club's sights last year. If we go back a little, Bryce Harper and Giancarlo Stanton (no trade clause) said no.
Finding the next Barry Bonds isn't easy.
Obviously, the club tried their hand at Shohei Ohtani, but he preferred to sign with LA rivals And as good as he is, Jung-Hoo Lee is no Shohei Ohtani.
Farhan Zaidi, who runs baseball operations there, said the Giants' offer was exactly like the Dodgers'. Ohtani has made his choice.
The Angels, Blue Jays and Giants are left empty-handed following the Ohtani case. But at least the Angels have Mike Trout and the Blue Jays have Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
The Giants, a big market club? The face of their franchise is not an active player.
Obviously, you understand that the club knows that it must find ways to change that. Bob Melvin knows this. Management knows it. The owners know it.
Buster Posey says the club has been in a bit of a free agent slump for a few years.
And in his eyes, the state of the city has something to do with it all.
It must be funny for him to say this, but Posey feels that the players' families have a bad perception of the city of San Francisco. He says the comments come up often.
There are concerns about crime and drugs in the city.
And like Posey said, whether it's true or not, people's perception often becomes the truth. It becomes a frustrating cycle. And inevitably, it gave this:
Yes, it affected the Shohei Ohtani case.
–Buster Posey
Even though Ohtani said nothing against San Francisco, Posey still felt his clan had reservations about the city.
And that's a problem for the Giants, who don't win often enough, who play in a city where the weather isn't always nice, in a batter's stadium and in a state with a high tax rate.
