NLCS 2010: This Buster Posey Kid Is Pretty Damn Good

For those of you outside the cities of San Francisco and Philadelphia, I've got some news for you.

Buster Posey is a damn fine ballplayer.

I don't just mean he could have a good career.  I mean he's already one of the top five catchers in baseball.

No, that's not a joke or an exaggeration.

The numbers speak for themselves.  A .305/.357/.505 triple slash line over 443 plate appearances.  Eighteen home runs, 67 RBI and 58 runs scored.  A respectable strikeout rate (13.5 percent) and a good arm (his 37.1 percent of runners caught ranked fourth in the National League in 2010).

And it's not just luck.  His .315 BABIP (batting average ...

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