Buster’s Buying! Former MLB Star Reportedly Purchases New Hunting Lodge In Mendocino

In 2014, we traveled to Arizona for Major League Baseball’s spring training and wrote a couple of profiles of California-based players who besides being great players were also diehard hunters/anglers. One of the stories we did was on then San Francisco Giants star catcher Buster Posey, who that season would help the Giants to their third World Series title in five years. He retired in 2021, is now part of owner of the team and has a legitimate argument to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame when he’s eligible in a few years.

We wrote this about Posey in that 2014 cover story:

“I think deer hunting, sometimes as a kid, would get a little bit monotonous,” Posey says. “I definitely enjoy it a lot more now be- cause it’s a way for me to unwind after the season. I don’t really get it to it much any- more with my dad and brothers the way I used to, but there’s much preparation that goes into it before the (hunting) season starts: where you put the stands and trying to make sure you always get your wind right.

And after all that, it really comes down to being there at the right time, being still and being quiet.”

Those were the days growing up: Buster, his father, Gerald“Demp”Posey, and younger brother Jack – a college teammate with Buster for one season at their alma mater, Florida State University – spending countless hours in their tree stand waiting for a buck to wander within shooting range.

“There’s not a whole lot to it: you sit and look for deer,” Buster says. “But it’s something that’s hard to describe to people unless you go out there and actually do it.”

Posey has reportedly made a new purchase of a wildlife- and fish-filled property in Mendocino County, a couple years after he and his family sold another vast rural property near Oroville.

Here’s S.F. Gate with some details:

After selling that ranch two years ago, Posey has once again made a big purchase in NorCal. This summer, Posey paid $10.4 million after taxes for the 4,129-acre Six Point Ranch, according to documents obtained by SFGATE. The famous property spans Mendocino and Lake counties and is highly regarded as a hunting destination for tule elk, black-tail deer and wild pigs. It contains lands ranging from oak woodland to cedar-capped mountains rising thousands of feet high.

This private real estate sale has not been previously reported; SFGATE obtained a grant deed from the County of Mendocino showing that Bullock Family Farm LLC transferred ownership of the property to Lala Ranch LLC. The manager of Lala Ranch LLC is Gerald Posey III, better known as Buster Posey, the beloved former Giants catcher. …

If Posey wanted the outdoors, he’s got it. According to an earlier listing of the property, Six Point Ranch includes a four-bedroom, four-bath ranch home with a rustic screened porch and a three-bedroom, two-bath hunter’s lodge. Black bears, turkeys, quail, grouse, waterfowl, bobcats, coyotes and cougars roam the ranch, the listing boasted, with largemouth bass and bluegill fish living in the lakes on the property.