Future Projection: Can Buster Posey Lead The Giants To New Heights?

Image credit: Buster Posey (Photo by Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

In this week’s Future Projection episode, Ben Badler and Carlos Collazo get together to talk about new leadership moves for both the Giants and the Cardinals organizations. Ben wonders if Giants fans should be wary about Buster Posey taking charge in San Francisco given the former MVP catcher’s lack of extensive front office experience before discussing changes that could be coming for the Cardinals in the future with Chaim Bloom set to become president of baseball operations in 2026.

Where do both orgs stand with their current farm systems? How has each team drafted and done on the international signing market in recent years?

Later, the two talk about Quinn Mathews and his development as a pitcher and compare him with some of the best lefthanded pitching prospects in the game, including Marlins southpaw Thomas White, before moving onto a conversation about Paul Skenes and the state of the Pirates.

Was anyone particularly close to Skenes in our Rookie of the Year race? And what about those Yoshinobu Yamamoto debates before the 2024 season got started?

To close things out, discussion turns to the draft lottery odds being set, including praise for the new system that no longer incentivizes tanking, and a trio of listener questions including: the biggest adjustments from Triple-A to the majors, the potential strategies at play with an ABS challenge system, thoughts on Phillies prospect Eduardo Tait and the rarity of big leaguers who perform better in the majors than the minors.