Posted By Jeff Fletcher on April 30, 2010 6:08 pm

Just talked to a couple of scouts who made recent passes through Fresno. They report that Madison Bumgarner is better, but still not ready. In fact, none of the pitchers at Fresno are ready to come up and help the Giants, one scout said.

As for Posey, he’s looking pretty good, but this scout said that he doesn’t think it would be a good idea for the Giants to bring him up. He said Posey has a chance to be an above average catcher who can hit, and the Giants could jeopardize that if they sacrifice his time developing as a catcher to have him in the big leagues catching once a week and playing first base.

He also said that Posey has pretty good power potential, but right now he’s not ready to bring it into games.

The scout said Posey seems to have pretty good instincts behind the plate, evident by one time that he took his time throwing out a would-be base-stealer because he was aware enough to see that the runner stumbled on his way to second. Other scouts were not impressed with Posey’s 2.1-second time (catcher should generally be under two seconds), but this scout said Posey made a slower, accurate throw because he knew he had time.