Buster Posey Speaks About Giants' Recruiting of Roki Sasaki
"First and foremost, I'm appreciative of our team," Posey said. "Zack, all his efforts, [Senior Director, International Operations & Baseball Administration] Jose Bonilla, who did uncounted hours of work of preparation for that meeting. SFG Productions put together a really great video that spanned from the Bay Area to Arizona, just featuring our facilities and a lot of the city as well and what San Francisco has to offer culturally, from a food perspective.
"That's my first response, is that I'm appreciative of all the work that went into that recruiting process. We put our best foot forward, I don't think there's anything else you can do. I know the group feels that way, it wasn't a last-minute, haphazard, last-ditch effort. Zack had been on Roki for a long time, and unfortunately it didn't work out."