The above Posey signed bat isn't the same bat that was sold by the Giants Community Fund:
The grain is different, the pine tar on the tape is different, the ball marks on the Giants bat are absent on the eBay bat, and the ebay bat has rack marks absent on the Giants bat.
Assuming the inscription is actually penned in Posey's hand, I assume the individual (not necessarily the seller, whom I haven't received a response from yet) who got the item signed took the LOA from the Giants and asked Posey if he would add G/U to it.
The part that makes the least sense in all of this is, why would Posey use an April 11, 2013 bat in 2014? Don't MLB superstars get new orders several times a year these days? It seems highly irregular that Posey would be using bats from over a year prior.
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