A Giant Help: Is Buster Posey Now the Favorite for Rookie of the Year?

Coming into the season, Braves outfielder Jason Heyward was the runaway favorite for Rookie of the Year. But Heyward has succumbed to injury, and other names have popped up in the forefront of the Rookie of the Year discussion.

Among them, Buster Posey, the San Francisco Giants catcher with a red-hot bat. Currently riding a 19-game hitting streak, Posey has been the lynch-pin that the offensively anemic Giants so desperately needed.

"He's been a big shot in the arm for us," manager Bruce Bochy said of the 23-year old Georgia native. "There's no getting around it. We think a lot of Buster. We are not surprised by what he's doing."

"He's got discipline at the plate," Bochy said. "He's a patient hitter. He's got one of those swings that the bat stays in the zone a lo...

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