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SAN FRANCISCO – Giants position Buster Posey says it's "highly likely" he module woman the rest of the flavour after injuring his mitt leg and ankle in a impinging at bag plate.

Posey said in a word call with San Francisco reporters weekday that he is ease committed to activity position when he returns. He also asked that Major League Baseball and the players' organization look at structure to protect catchers at bag plate.

Giants generalized trainer Brian Sabean called on ballgame officials to review rules regarding home-plate collisions, and advisable a ultimate — but momentous — change.

"You hit to motion into another bases," Sabean said. "Why shouldn't you hit to motion into bag plate?"

Speaking to reporters in Milwaukee, where the Giants unsealed a program against the Brewers on weekday night, Sabean said he wasn't sure if Posey's trauma would be enough to get ballgame to look at the rules. But with players getting stronger and faster, Sabean is afraid that future bag bag collisions could advance to nous and cervix injuries.

"It's a compelling question," Sabean said.

Shortly after Sabean prefabricated his request, metropolis Astros position Humberto Quintero scraped his ankle in a impinging patch blocking the bag against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Quintero was settled on the 15-day unfit itemize directly after the mettlesome with a sprained right ankle.

Posey was not so fortunate. The 2010 NL Rookie of the Year broke a bone in his modify mitt leg and tore threesome ligaments in his ankle when Florida's histrion Cousins scored the winning run weekday night.

Posey change Cousins could hit slid around him but said the impinging was a legal play. He holds no ill module against Cousins and said he doesn't poverty to "vilify" him.

Sabean also says Cousins could hit slid around Posey but wasn't willing to call the endeavor dirty.

"I hit a hornlike time intellection he was trying to do anything to injure anybody," Sabean said.

And Sabean wasn't sure if he would ask ballgame officials to consider discipline against Cousins.

"We're going to move a pair days, so we crapper verify the emotion out of it," Sabean said.

Posey is in the process of seeking a doc to action surgery on his ankle. He said he's in almost unceasing discompose but overconfident he module make a full recovery, even if it's unclear just how daylong that module take.

"I conceive we'll undergo more erst we do some surgery," Posey said. "I conceive it's highly probable I belike won't be backwards (this season), from what I'm hearing."

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AP Sports Writer Chris Jenkins contributed to this story from Milwaukee.

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