{"id":1855,"date":"2010-11-15T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T20:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2010-11-15T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T21:15:57","slug":"buster-posey-takes-batting-practice-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1855","title":{"rendered":"Buster Posey Takes Batting Practice (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants selected <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/poseybu01.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\">Buster  Posey<\/a><\/strong> 5th overall in the 2008 MLB First Year Player Draft.\u00a0 After being called up on May 29th, Posey played a major role in the Giants&#8217; late-season surge to reach the playoffs, and ultimately win the World Series.\u00a0 In just 108 games, he hit .305 with 23 doubles, 18 home runs and 67 RBI.\u00a0 On Monday, the 23-year old was named the National League&#8217;s Rookie of the Year after receiving 20 1st-place votes.\u00a0 Here is a video of the always-impressive Posey taking batting practice as a California League All-Star in 2009:<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/05pTw0rZGYc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/05pTw0rZGYc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants selected Buster Posey 5th overall in the 2008 MLB First Year Player Draft.\u00a0 After being called up on May 29th, Posey played a major role in the Giants&#8217; late-season surge to reach the playoffs, and ultimately win the World Series.\u00a0 In just 108 games, he hit .305 with 23 doubles, 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,9,11,13,10,14,775],"tags":[29,1278,739,1276,1277,884,584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}