Yes indeed! I think so, and even pointed out on the PG messageboard that not keeping Buster on the Major League roster out of spring training was a big mistake! Heck, BP practically carried the team on his back "offensively" during his 2010 spring training campaign.
The Giants organization can also thank PG Jerry Ford and Mike Martin for putting Buster on the map. A far cry from his 50th round pick out of Lee County High School.
PG Jerry's recommendation to place Buster Posey on the AFLAC ALL-AMERICAN H.S. baseball team was a turning point in Buster's career, and pole-vaulted a talent that could no longer be hidden under anyone individuals bushel, including mine.
Truthfully, I never dreamed Buster would end up catching when I found him in a summer tournament playing SS & pitching after his 7th grade year. When I worked Buster out as a pitcher in the bullpen at that tournament, he asked me about FL STATE'S camps. I highly recommended that he attend those camps and learn from the best! He did just that, now the rest is history! Nice job Mike Martin, and also, his super camp instructors!
Mike Martin saw an intelligent baseball player who understood the aspects of the mental game of catching. Knowing how to handle pitchers and read hitters is a gift Buster has. He was special beyond his years that very hot day(100degrees+) in Perry, Ga. when I happened to be in the right place, at the right time. No other scouts were there that day, and Buster registered for FL STATE's summer camps, shortly after that special day in my scouting endeavors-lol. I was still an associate with Baltimore and didn't ever receive any compensation. I thought to myself, what the heck! I contacted Jerry Ford immediately after having my broken-down truck towed back to Macon, Ga that very same day after this "once in a lifetime encounter" with a prospect with MLB tools, even then. At least PG Jerry gave me a free subscription to "Prospects Plus". That was more than the Orioles gave me. Good thing I had an education to fall back on because it is almost impossible to break in to scouting full-time, unless someone hires the true scout, rather than a relative-lol! The position I was led to believe would be mine when the veteran Supervisor I helped out for 10 years + retired, was given to someone else. A brother of another scouting director of another team, at the time. Life went on. I never left scouting. It's in my blood. It's what I enjoy doing next to my full-time profession of 17 years.
WAY TO GO SF GIANTS AND GOD BLESS MY BROTHER BRUCE BOCHEY!!!
WE ARE PROUD OF YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS BUSTER POSEY!
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