In baseball, as in life, bad stretches can be filled with absurdities. The White Sox had infielders running into outfielders in pursuit of balls. They lost a game on a rare runner interference call. In the midst of all this, the team’s owner has been trying to get taxpayer money for a new stadium, which some people also consider absurd.

Giants chairman Greg Johnson joked for years that franchise legend Buster Posey would end up running the club’s front office one day. He just didn’t expect Posey’s official ascent to happen so soon. Three years after retiring as a player,