Buster Posey will have hip surgery on Monday

We knew this was coming. As discussed the other day after John Shea first broke the “Posey needs hip surgery” story, there are four different types of hip labrum surgery with varying recovery procedures. The beat reporters have relayed that the surgery Posey will undergo in Colorado on Monday will involve a recovery period of 6-8 months.

This presents a very real possibility that Buster Posey will not be on the 2019 Opening Day roster. If the franchise was worried about losing fans who’d be turned off by a drastic tank and rebuild strategy, then they should be more worried about what not having a healthy Buster Posey on the Opening Day roster will look like.

The recovery period is the bigger…