San Francisco Giants: All-Decade Team of the 2010s

Catcher: Buster Posey

There’s only one player this past decade that put up a higher overall WAR for the San Francisco Giants and it was none other than the face of the franchise.

Buster Posey deserves his own slide for his excellence over the last ten years. He is arguably the top catcher in all of baseball over that span.

Posey was selected with the fifth overall pick in the 2008 draft and had an impressive rookie campaign two seasons later, winning National League Rookie of the Year and even placing in the top-11 of MVP voting.

His meteoric rise, which coincided with the San Francisco Giants’ playoff prominence hit an impressive peak in 2012, when Posey would win National League Most Valuable Player.

That season, he led the league in average and OPS+, dominating the league at the plate as well as behind it.

His overall numbers for the decade are hard to match as well—a .302 batting average, over 400 extra-base hits, 673 RBI, and 594 runs.

He captured six All-Star appearances, four Silver Sluggers, a Gold Glove, and finished in near the top of MVP voting in six different seasons. That’s unheard of.

Posey’s Hall of Fame trajectory has slowed in recent years thanks to some numbers that haven’t quite lived up to the sensational seasons he had at the beginning of the decade, but he remains a Giants legend regardless.

There will surely one day be a statue erected to honor what Buster Posey has done for the city.

He has molded this team into a championship-caliber threat. He’s led his teammates into the playoff battlefield and come out on top.

There is no clearer choice to honor in this position for the All-Decade team. In fact, Posey might find himself on the All-Franchise San Francisco Giants team when his career is finally over.