Northern California is home to Buster Posey.
The Giants president of baseball operations explained why he knew the Golden State is where he belongs in Wednesday’s inaugural “415 Podcast” episode hosted by The San Francisco Standard’s Kerry Crowley.
“Well, this is home,” Posey told Crowley. “I think for me personally, it took a year away to realize just how important and special this part of the world had become to me and my wife and our kids. My wife will tell you, she didn’t want to make the move back to Georgia to begin with. … It’s really hard to explain. You’re hopeful that everybody out there gets to experience that feeling of a place where you belong. And we’ve spent basically our entire adult lives here; our kids were all born here.
“Really, what spurred this move on was [that] we came back out, probably eight months or so to being in Georgia, and were visiting some friends and here for some sort of engagement … Like 24 hours in, my wife and I looked at each other, and [we were] like, ‘Why aren’t we living here?’ And it was one of those strange life moments, where we made the decision on the fly.”
Posey essentially grew up in San Francisco after the franchise selected him with the No. 5 overall pick in the 2008 MLB Draft out of Florida State, playing his entire 13-year career with the Giants.
Upon retiring in 2021, Posey moved his family back to their roots in Georgia, but as he explained, California kept calling.
And it’s safe to say it was meant to be.
“We’ve been back a couple of years now,” Posey told Crowley. “It’s great. It’s home. The downside is definitely not being able to see family as much as we’d like. But this is home for the Poseys, and we love being here.”
It seems Posey will stay “home” for good.
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