Buster Poseys silence speaks volumes about his Giants leadership and its not good

SAN FRANCISCO — As a player, fans got to know Buster Posey as a tremendous leader.In the clubhouse.

Of a pitching staff.As the most important player on three World Series winners.They must be wondering where that guy was as Posey, now the team’s top baseball executive, clammed up during a heated 15-minute news conference inside the home dugout Tuesday.Confronted with questions about the Giants’ LGBTQ+ Pride Night controversy, Posey had nothing to say.

He didn’t offer his support to the four players who objected to wearing the rainbow caps over their Christian faith.He didn’t come out against their actions.Commissioner Rob Manfred rebuked the organization for its “inadequate and not clear” communication to its players regarding the night, but Posey had no response to that, either.He had no answers at all.It was an embarrassing waste of time from one of the franchise’s most beloved players, who might be at risk of losing that title with the way the team has performed under his watch.Posey began by saying he was “happy to take baseball questions” but the impromptu news conference, in front of a crowd of some 30 reporters and a half-dozen television cameras, devolved to such a degree that a team PR official had to intervene multiple times as the former franchise legend sat there, visibly uncomfortable.“I’d like to recognize that the organization has shared its response to Pride Night, and I understand that there’s strong feelings on this topic,” Posey said in a prepared statement.

“There’s differing perspectives, and out of respect to everybody involved, it’s not something that I’m going to revisit.”Posey was offered opportunity after opportunity to revisit the way the team handled Pride Night and the decisions by three pitchers to write a Bible verse on their hats in violation of MLB uniform policy.A fourth opted out entirely and wore the Giants’ normal hat.“I can promise you this is something that we’ve talked a lot abou...