Describing the Pain of a Tough Job, Buster Posey Retires at 34

Minutes after starfighter Buster Posey, who had guided the San Francisco Giants to three World Series titles during the team’s greatest season, announced his surprising retirement on Thursday, one of his former bosses wanted to be sure. “Is that a certain thing, a certain thing?” Farhan Zaidi, head of baseball operations for the Giants, said …