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In 2008, Buster Posey won the Johnny Bench National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Award. Yesterday, the award was re-named in his honor:
In 2008 I was honored to be named the National Collegiate Catcher of the Year. Today, I’m humbled to become the namesake of this prestigious award to celebrate the achievements of Division 1 college catchers with the Buster Posey National College Catcher of the Year Award. pic.twitter.com/K1lUwJJldX
— Buster Posey (@BusterPosey) April 2, 2019
For those that can’t view his message, it says:
“In 2008 I was honored to be named the National Collegiate Catcher of the Year. Today, I’m humbled to become the namesake of this prestigious award to celebrate the achievements of Division 1 college catchers with the Buster Posey National College Catcher of the Year Award.”
Truly a a great honor for a great player and all around great person.
In other news, Brandon Crawford is, as they say, Mad Online:
Bad take
— Brandon Crawford (@bcraw35) April 2, 2019
“Underachieving”? He was a 32nd rounder who probably surprised a lot of people. .260 with “average” pop & bringing it on defense every night plays in the big leagues. Take it from me....
— Brandon Crawford (@bcraw35) April 2, 2019
Agree or disagree with his perspective on Kevin Pillar as a player, you have to appreciate the fact that players have started clapping back more and more this year against media narratives they disagree with.
And Pillar noticed:
Kevin Pillar takes notice to Crawford defending him pic.twitter.com/BK368Ub4kr
— Taylor Wirth (@WirthTM) April 3, 2019
Finally, I meant to include this with yesterday’s BP, but I didn’t get a chance to so I’ll just drop it here and let you guys enjoy. The context is both Brandons reaching 200 career doubles in the same game on Monday night:
belt: i got a double
— ⚾️ (@incorrectgiants) April 2, 2019
craw:
belt: and a homerun
belt: and three RBIs
belt: and jump caught a liner
craw:
craw: i still beat you to 200 doubles by 4 innings
belt: ONE THING. CAN YOU LET ME HAVE JUST O N E THING CRAWFORD
In my opinion, this needs to be a commercial, ASAP.