FACTS/FLUKES: Posey, Werth, Grilli, A. Soriano, H. Alvarez

How much will Posey regress? … It’s only natural to expect a reigning MVPs to come back to the pack at least a bit the following season. But Buster Posey (C/1B, SF) has two elite pieces of mantle hardware to his name (MVP and Rookie of the Year) in just three seasons sandwiched around a devastating knee injury. So maybe he doesn’t follow the accepted conventions:

Year    AB   BA    xBA  bb%  ct%   Eye  h%   PX    G/L/F   hr/f  HR
====   ===  ====  ====  ===  ===  ====  ==  ===  ========  ====  ==
2010   406  .305  .297    7   86  0.55  32  118  49/18/33   15%  18
2011   162  .284  .252   10   81  0.60  33   71  53/18/29   10%   4
2012   503  .336  .301   12   82  0.72  38  137  47/25/29   19%  24

While the 80% play is that someone...

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