MLB / Players

Buster Posey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 213 lb

BornMarch 27, 1987 · Leesburg, GA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 2009

Final gameOctober 3, 2021

Seasons12 (2009–2021)

San Francisco Giants 2009–2019; San Francisco Giants 2021

Percentile snapshot

2017 season — qualified batters

140

25.2

568

32.2

494

23.8

13.3

158

70.6

73.4

11.2

RBI

33.6

62.2

97.2

46.9

.320

95.8

OBP

.400

SLG

.462

54.5

OPS

.861

74.1

wRC+

127.1

74.1

OPS+

127.3

76.2

wOBA

.371

78.3

sWAR

4.2

79.7

of 144 qualified 2017 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

129.1

89.7

OPS+

129.2

89.9

sWAR

46.1

98.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2009	7	17	17	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.118	.118	.118	.235	-59.8	-37.6	.107	-0.2
2010	108	443	406	58	124	23	2	18	67	30	55	0	2	.305	.357	.505	.862	133.1	133.7	.375	3.7
2011	45	185	162	17	46	5	0	4	21	18	30	3	0	.284	.368	.389	.756	118.4	117.2	.342	1.4
2012	148	610	530	78	178	39	1	24	103	69	96	1	1	.336	.408	.549	.957	168.9	168.8	.412	7.9
2013	148	595	520	61	153	34	1	15	72	60	70	2	1	.294	.371	.450	.821	135.6	134.7	.363	5.4
2014	147	605	547	72	170	28	2	22	89	47	69	0	1	.311	.364	.490	.854	144.2	143.1	.374	5.9
2015	150	623	557	74	177	28	0	19	95	56	52	2	0	.318	.379	.470	.849	135.6	134.9	.369	5.3
2016	146	614	539	82	155	33	2	14	80	64	68	6	1	.288	.362	.434	.796	115.6	115.6	.347	4.1
2017	140	568	494	62	158	34	0	12	67	61	66	6	1	.320	.400	.462	.861	127.1	127.3	.371	4.2
2018	105	448	398	47	113	22	1	5	41	45	53	3	2	.284	.359	.382	.741	108.8	106.2	.333	2.6
2019	114	445	405	43	104	24	0	7	38	34	71	0	0	.257	.320	.368	.688	82.9	81.9	.301	1.3
2021	113	454	395	68	120	23	0	18	56	56	87	0	0	.304	.390	.499	.889	140.1	139.2	.384	4.7

Career totals

1,371

5,607

4,970

663

1,500

293

158

RBI

729

540

721

.3018

203rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3716

266th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4598

393rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8314

276th-highest career OPS

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2013-07-08	NYM @ SF Gameday	8	1	5	2	1	2	0	10
2010-07-07	SF @ MIL Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	6	1	10
2014-07-22	SF @ PHI Gameday	7	2	4	2	1	1	0	9
2014-08-21	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	1	1	9
2021-04-20	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	2	0	9

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

5× Silver Slugger1× Rookie of the Year1× Most Valuable Player1× Gold Glove7× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.