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Posey named Minor League Player of the Year for 2009
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Buster Posey was named 2009 Minor League Player of the Year.
Former San Jose Giant catcher Buster Posey has been named winner of the Topps Minor League Player of the Year award for 2009.
Posey hit a combined .325 with 18 home runs and 80 RBI’s in 115 games between San Jose and Fresno. While with San Jose, Posey also threw out 49% of potential base-stealers.
The Florida native made the mid-season California League All-Star Team. In July, he was sent up to Fresno, where he batted .315 in 35 games. Posey earned a promotion to the San Francisco Giants in September. He’s now playing for the Scottsdale Scorpions of the Arizona Fall League.
The honor, officially known as the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, has previously been given to such notable big leaguers as Derek Jeter (1994), Johnny Damon (1995), Andruw Jones (1996), Eric Chavez (1999), Josh Beckett (2001) and Delmon Young (2005). Spink was publisher of the Sporting News from 1914 to 1962.
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