SAN FRANCISCO -- During his playing days, Buster Posey always found himself fascinated by the action leading up to the MLB trade deadline, and it's easy to see why that was the case. Posey's first few seasons were marked by flurries of activity at the end of July.

In 2011, his first full Giants season, Brian Sabean tried to fill the void left by Posey's leg injury by dealing Zack Wheeler for Carlos Beltran. A year later, Posey won a title because Sabean went out and got Hunter Pence and Marco "Blockbuster" Scutaro at the deadline. The 2013 deadline might have been the most interesting of all; Sabean stubbornly stood pat, holding pending free agents Pence, Tim Lincecum and Javier Lopez because he found the offers to be insulting and thought all three could help the Giants win again in 2014

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