Buster Posey knows from first-hand experience the value of a good shortstop.
For nearly his entire playing career, Posey shared the field alongside Brandon Crawford, whose elite defense made him arguably the Giants’ best shortstop of the modern era. As Posey starts his tenure as San Francisco’s president of baseball operations, finding his shortstop of the future is, unsurprisingly, one of his top priorities.
“If we could find a shortstop that’d be great,” Posey told reporters at the GM Meetings in San Antonio. “Tyler Fitzgerald did a great job at short last year. I think he has value and in multiple spots on the field. I do think it’s hard to play multiple spots at the same time during the season. Whether he’d be better suited to play second base long-term is a discussion we’re having.”
At a glance, Fitzgerald played well enough as a rookie to enter next year as the favorite for starting shortstop, hitting 15 homers, swiping 17 bases and posting an .831 OPS over 96 games. But there are some concerns with Fitzgerald under the hood, namely in his strikeout rate (31.7%) and below-average exit velocity (22nd percentile), among other metrics. Following a year where he spent time at first base, second base, third base, shortstop, left field and center field, San Francisco could potentially use Fitzgerald in a super-utility role.
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