Should Joe Mauer be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of …
Jan 20, 2024 · For the last 20+ years, the Joe Mauer origin story has been tantamount to the fable of Paul Bunyan, oft-recited and well-learned by a few generations of Minnesotans. It was a feel-good hometown ...
Is Joe Mauer a First-Ballot Hall of Famer? - Twinkie Town
Nov 30, 2023 · Mauer is also the only catcher to ever win an American League batting title, and he did it three times, in 2006, 2008, and 2009. In that 2009 season, he also won the AL MVP, a Silver Slugger, and ...
Joe Mauer: First Ballot Hall of Famer - Twinkie Town
Jan 24, 2024 · Joe Mauer has, quite fittingly, become the seventh Twin to make the Baseball Hall of Fame. He spent his entire career with his hometown team, and now he is officially not only recognized as one of ...
Greatest Minnesota Twins: The Twinkie Town Definitive List …
Nov 28, 2023 · Joe Mauer. Born in St. Paul and drafted straight out of Cretin-Derham Hall High School, Mauer had perhaps the keenest eye and sweetest swing of any Twins alum. Not only dominating pitch-calling ...
Ranking Joe Mauer among MLB’s all-time hometown players
Apr 24, 2018 · Joe Mauer, from Minnesota (the state of Minnesota is t-32nd in 2017 baseball players; Minnesota has, of course, just 1 MLB team) Brandon Crawford , California (1st in 2017 players; 5 teams in ...
Joe Mauer has earned every penny - Twinkie Town
Feb 22, 2018 · Joe Mauer was a worthwhile investment. Mauer serves as a very instructive example of how skewed the current salary system is in both underpaying elite players and perversely rewarding the decline ...
The Case Against Joe Mauer - Twinkie Town
Jun 17, 2019 · Joe Mauer is not the most valuable defensive catcher in Twins history by baseball-reference Defensive WAR. I noted a couple of other points in my previous article about Mauer -- Joe threw out a ...
Mirror Image: An early injury also marred superstar potential in ‘04
Apr 18, 2024 · Joe Mauer & the Slide Heard ‘Round The World. As 2004 dawned, 21-year-old Joe Mauer was the talk of the town. With the Minnesota Twins having traded away popular (yes, ...
Joe Mauer vs. the Greats - Twinkie Town
Sep 29, 2010 · Catcher . Total PAs. Johnny Bench. 5192. Ted Simmons. 4763. Ivan Rodriguez. 4763. Joe Torre. 4099. Bill Freehan. 3765. Gary Carter. 3763. Joe Mauer . 3526. Jason ...
Joe Mauer Wins Gold Glove - Twinkie Town
Nov 6, 2008 · Was Joe Mauer deserving of his first Gold Glove? A discussion of defensive metrics for catchers and how the winning catcher from the AL stacks up against the rest of the league.