San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey has announced he will forego playing this season. Posey is the latest MLB player to exercise his option to sit out the abbreviated 2020 season due to the COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic.
Posey has expressed concerns about his comfort level on several occasions, so this is not exactly a surprise. At the age of 33, he is also a veteran who has earned a substantial sum in his career so far, which means that the financial ramifications of sitting out (players who do not have an underlying health condition who opt out do not receive their salary or service time) do not impact him the way it does many other players.