Joe Mauer
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Joseph Patrick Mauer (born April 19, 1983) is an American former professional baseball pitcher, designated hitter, and first baseman who spent his entire 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Minnesota Twins.
Mauer is the only catcher in MLB history to win three batting titles and the only catcher to win a batting championship in the American League (AL).
He has also been named in three gold Glove Awards (2008–2010) and the 2009 AL Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award.
Personal life
During the 2006 season, Mauer and former Twins teammate Justin Morneau in Saint Paul, Minnesota, shared a house.
Mauer had long sideburns during his major league career, and the Twins held "Joe Mauer Sideburns Night" in his honor on August 10, 2006. In Mauer's signature look, the first 10,000 fans were given synthetic sideburns with double-sided tape to share.
Mauer revealed on December 11, 2011 that he would marry Saint Paul nurse Maddie Bisanz, his sister of about 18 months and a fellow student at Cretin-Derham Hall High School. The couple married in Saint Paul on December 1, 2012, at the Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church. Justin Morneau, a groomsman, was a groomsman. On July 24, 2013, the Mauers' twin daughters were born. They welcomed a son on November 14, 2018.
Mauer purchased a house in Sunfish Lake, Minnesota, in 2012.
In the 2001 draft, the Twins also selected Joe's older brother Jake as the 677th overall pick in the 23rd round. Jake attended the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul. According to some, this was an effort to compel Joe to sign a deal, but the Twins' Scout Chief Mike Radcliff denied this. Jake Mauer ended his playing career after the 2005 season but went on to lead the Gulf Coast League Twins (Rookie Level). Jake signed up to the High-A Fort Myers Miracle in 2009 after winning the GCL South with the Twins in 2009. Mauer was named as the team's manager after the Twins' decision to add the Cedar Rapids Kernels as the team's Low-A affiliate in November 2012.
Billy Mauer, Mauer's older brother, signed with the Twins as an undrafted free agent and pitched in the organization for three seasons before recurring shoulder injuries forced him to leave the game. He ended his minor league career with a 3–4 record and a 3.66 earned run average in 43 games. Billy has purchased Mauer Chevrolet and Mauer Buick GMC automobile dealerships in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
Ken Mauer, Joe's cousin, is a former referee in the NBA. Mark Mauer, my uncle, is a former college football coach and player.
High school career
Mauer was a member of the Cretin-Derham Hall Raiders in St. Paul, and played football, basketball, and baseball. He was the only athlete to be named Best High School Player of the Year in two sports (football in 2000 as a quarterback and baseball in 2001 as a catcher) in his senior year.
Mauer was included in a magazine in December 2009 describing his pick by the Minnesota Twins as the first pick in the 2001 amateur draft.
Mauer attended the same high school as former Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor, who later became his major league manager for the Twins. Mauer has "the best swing he has ever seen," Molitor said. Jim O'Neill, Mauer's baseball coach, said his former student "has been preparing for this job since he was a youth." Jake, Mauer's dad, invented a contraption for Joe that he later described as the 'Quickswing.' Balls were dropped from eye level and released at waist height. Mauer had to drop his T-ball league at the age of four because the ball was too heavy for the other players. "Another guy who came from Cretin-Derham Hall, Paul Molitor, was very similar, [and] had a good short swing," O'Neill said. "They're both able to sit on the ball so long because they don't have the big swing." "You keep it simple and keep it short," says the author, "not a lot of holes in it, and not a lot of space for errors."
Mauer came out just once during his four-year high school career and hit.605 in his senior season, a standout in baseball. "I can remember the time I did strike out," Mauer laughed at an interviewer. It was the junior year and the state tournament was held. "I came back to the bench, and everybody thought something was wrong with me." Every year, Mauer's high school batting average hit.500. He also tied for the first time in seven consecutive games as the Minnesota high school record and tied for national preps. Mauer was a member of Team USA's Junior National Team from 1998 to 2000 and finished fifth in his final year on the team. In 2000, he was named best hitter at the World Junior Baseball Championship in Canada. Mauer was named United States District V Player of the Year in 2001.
Mauer averaged more than 20 points per game as a point guard for Cretin-Derham Hall. During his remaining two years on Cretin-Derham's basketball team, he was also named to the All-State team.
Mauer had a fruitful high school football career. He appeared in the Faces in the Crowd section of Sports Illustrated in 2000. Mauer completed 178 of 269 passes (66% completion percentage) for 3,022 yards, 41 touchdowns, and 5 interceptions during his senior season as the Raiders' quarterback. He spent his two-year career as a starter, scoring 5,528 yards and 73 touchdowns, leading the Raiders to two straight Class 5A State Championship Game appearances and winning the title in 1999, the Raiders' first appearance in all time.
Mauer was named as the 2001 Gatorade National Player of the Year, was selected by USA Today's All-American High School Football Team, and was named Player of the Year for the game that will be dubbed the United States Army All-American Bowl. The National Quarterback Club also named Mauer as the year's National High School Quarterback.
Professional career
Mauer eventually decided against playing football at Florida State University but decided against entering the Major League Baseball Draft. Mauer was selected as the first overall pick of the 2001 draft by the Twins, ahead of college pitcher Mark Prior, who was drafted second overall by the Chicago Cubs. Mauer appeared on the United States' roster at the 2003 All-Star Futures Game at Cellular Field before being promoted to the Twins' roster in 2004 after his predecessor, A. J. Pierzynski, was traded to the San Francisco Giants in the 2003 offseason.
Mauer went 2-for-3 in his Major League debut, hitting a single off Rafael Betancourt of the Cleveland Indians for his first major-league hit. On April 7, 2004, a knee injury in his left medial meniscus required surgery and Mauer was sidelined for more than a month. Mauer returned to the Twins' lineup in June after a recovery stint with the Rochester Red Wings, the Twins' AAA affiliate Rochester Red Wings. In July, pain and swelling in his knees brought an early end to Mauer's 2004 season. Mauer signed a $5.7 million contract with the Twins on January 24, 2005, following his injury-shortened 2004. Mauer returned to the Twins' lineup in 2005 for his first full major league season, racking up to 144 runs in 131 games, with 9 home runs and 55 RBI. He ended the year with an average of.294.
Mauer finished as the first catcher in American League history to lead the American League in batting average in 2006, a batting average of.347. The national media paid attention to Mauer's performance during the months of May and June. Over the first ten days of June, he had a.528 average, with a.452 average. He was also the first player since Mike Piazza in 1997 to reach base four or more times in five consecutive games. Mauer was named American League Player of the Week by Major League Baseball for his week June 4–11, during which he threw out 5 doubles, 4 RBI, and two stolen bases.
Mauer's first five RBI game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 26, was his first five RBI game. Mauer played back to that with his first five-hit game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 27, as well as his first five-hit game in his career. Since batting.452 with a.624 on-base percentage and.528 on-base percentage, 11 doubles, 14 RBI, and 18 runs, he was also named Player of the Month for June. Mauer was one of the first-ever single-team sweep of MLB's three monthly awards, alongside Johan Santana (Pitcher of the Month) and Francisco Liriano (Rookie of the Month). The players selected Mauer for his first All-Star Game on July 2, his first All-Star Game. In the August 7, 2006 issue of Sports Illustrated, Mauer appeared on the front page.
Mauer won the American League batting title for the first time since Ernie Lombardi with the Boston Braves in 1942. His.347 average was the highest in the Major Leagues, a feat not achieved by the previous three catchers to win NL batting titles. In 1996, he became the youngest player to win a batting championship since Alex Rodriguez. Mauer confessed to reporters, "I told you I wasn't worried about the batting title?" after going 2-for-4 in the last game of the 2006 regular season. I was lying. I've never been so anxious in my life. I haven't felt anything like this since Opening Day as a rookie." Mauer and colleague Justin Morneau won their first Silver Slugger Award in 2006.
Mauer decided to a four-year, $34 million contract with the Twins on February 11, 2007, avoiding arbitration. Mauer was expected to remain in Minnesota long enough to play in Target Field in 2010 with the Twins. Mauer's first home run against Angels pitcher Scot Shields was his first in his career inside-the-park. It was his fifth home run of the season, and there were two players on base when he struck the homer. Since Kelly Stinnett did it for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2005, it was the first inside-the-park home run by a catcher since the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Mauer led the AL with an average of.328 in 2008. In 2008, Mauer became the first American League catcher to win the batting championship twice. In the 2008 Major League All-Star Game, Mauer was announced as the starting catcher for the American League. On December 22, Mauer underwent kidney blockage surgery. Mauer received his first Gold Glove award in 2008, a first honor for the Mauer family, according to an official who revealed it on November 6. Dustin Pedroia, Justin Morneau, and Kevin Youkilis came in fourth place in the American League Most Valuable Player polling.
He was the first catcher to lead the league in batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage in a single year in 2009, and the first player to lead the American League since George Brett did so in 1980. Mauer's.365 average, the highest among catchers (with at least 3.1 plate appearances per game since 1901), is the highest by a Twin since Rod Carew's.388 in 1977, led Major League Baseball. In 2009, Mauer won his second straight Gold Glove. Mauer was voted the American League's 2009 MVP by a near-unanimous vote (27 out of 28 first place votes).
Following a magnetic resonance arthrogram, Mauer was diagnosed with inflammation in the sacroiliac joint by team doctors on March 11. Due to the pain in his lower back, which he first suffered with in the 2008 season, he was unable to participate in team workouts during spring training. Mauer missed the 2009 regular season but returned on May 1. In his first game back, he went 2-for-3 with an RBI and three runs scored, his first game back, he was running at home on his first swing of the season.
He returned May 1 and had his best month of his career. Mauer reached 11 home runs and 32 RBI in a single month, becoming the first Twins player to reach that milestone in a single month. Mauer led the major leagues in batting average between May 18-23, with 13, and runs scored with 12, as well as collecting 25 total bases. He was named MLB Player of the Week for his efforts on May 26. Mauer led the major leagues in average by.414, on-base percentage at.500, and slugging percentage at.838, earning him his second Player of the Month Award award honors for his second month of the Month award winners. On June 24, Mauer appeared on Sports Illustrated for the second time. For the occasion, an additional 25,000 copies of the magazine were sent to Minnesota. He was named in the 2009 MLB All-Star Game as the starting catcher and participated in the Home Run Derby, losing a tiebreaker to Albert Pujols in the first round.
At the start of September, the Twins trailed the Detroit Tigers by seven games in the American League Central division, but they regained control, winning 17 of their last 21 games to finish the season tied for second place. In Game 163, a 12-inning one-game playoff, the Twins defeated the Tigers 6–5 to claim the division championship on October 6th. Mauer led the American League in batting average (.365), on-base percentage (.444), slugging percentage (.587), and OPS (1.031), all of which were career-bests. Mauer was the first catcher to win three batting titles in a single season, and the first catcher to win three batting titles. At the time, he had won as many batting titles in a span of four years as all other Major League catchers combined. Both National League catchers had won a total of three titles: Eugene "Bubbles" Hargrave in 1926 and 1942 (Buster Posey captured his first NL batting title in 2012). Mauer also set career records in hits (191), home runs (96), extra-base hits (59), and other offensive categories (67.0), as well as near-personal records in almost every other offensive division in 138 games.
Mauer continued to swing the bat well, hitting five runs in 12 at-bats plus two walks in three games, but the Twins were swept by the eventual World Series champions in three games. Mauer was named the 2009 Major League Player of the Year by Baseball America on October 29, 2009. Mauer was named the 2009 American League Most Valuable Player by the Baseball Writer' Association of America over Yankees teammates Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter, who received 27 of the 28 first-place votes on November 23. Mauer was the third catcher in 33 years to win the AL MVP for the third time in 33 years. For the second year in a row, he has been given both a Gold Glove and Silver Slugger award.
Mauer decided to an eight-year contract extension with the Twins worth $184 million, which came into force in 2011 and continued through the 2018 season. It was the richest contract paid to a catcher in Major League Baseball history. In the Twins' 19–1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on July 26, 2010, Mauer hit a home run and drove in a career-high seven runs. On September 14, 2010, he scored his 1,000th Major League hit against the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field.
Mauer underwent arthroscopic knee surgery after the 2010 season, and he missed the majority of spring training due to a tough recovery from the operation. He was put on the disabled list right after the Twins' game on April 15. His condition, which was described as a "bilateral leg injury," was due to a lack of sleep during spring training. Mauer made his first post-DL appearance as a catcher in another extended spring training game on June 2 as a designated hitter in extended spring training. He continued his recovery to the Fort Myers Miracle, the Twins' Class A affiliate managed by his older brother Jake. Following Mauer's participation in multiple games with the Miracle, it was speculated that he might return to the Twins as early as June 16 or 17, but Twins manager Ron Gardenhire did not commit to a return date. On June 17, 2011, Joe Mauer returned to play with the Minnesota Twins for a standing ovation from the fans.
He made his first Major League appearance at first base in Chicago on July 7, 2011, when he converted the first ball struck him into an unassisted double play. In a 6–2 victory over the White Sox, he had 13 putouts and 2 assists, and he went 3-for-5 at the plate with 2 RBI. Mauer played in right field for the first time on August 18, 2011. In an 8–4 Twins loss to the New York Yankees, he had 3 putouts and went 1-for-3 with 1 RBI.
Mauer suffered with various ailments from allergies related to surgery at the start of the season to a bout of pneumonia at the end of the season, and it was certainly his worst season of his career. He played in only 82 games this year (career 126 average per season, not counting the 35 games he played in 2004), batted only.287 (career.323), and saw only 52 games. In 2012, he hoped to return to form.
Mauer expressed dissatisfaction with the previous season, saying "I've really been answering [about last season] all winter, and mine included." However, it's a new year, and the better, not to allow it to happen again." It was revealed on July 1 that he would be playing in his fifth All-Star Game. In the first half of the season, Mauer's batting average was.325, with 4 home runs and 36 RBI. Mauer had the second best batting average in the American League by mid-July. Mauer played his 832nd game for the Twins on August 27, breaking a franchise record set by Earl Battey.
Mauer was the Twins' Opening Day catcher, with Ryan Doumit as his backup, and he saw time at first base and designated hitter. He hit.320 with 8 home runs, 32 RBI, and 50 runs, including a streak that went from April 30 to May 18, as well as a 15-game hitting streak from April 30 to May 18. He was named as the starting catcher in his sixth All-Star Game. Mauer went on the 7-day disabled list with concussion-like signs on August 20. Doumit, Chris Herrmann, and Josmil Pinto began at catcher in his absence. Mauer never recovered from the line-up and his season ended after 113 games. While winning the 2013 AL Silver Slugger Award at catcher, he hit.324/.404/.476 with 11 home runs, 47 RBI, 35 doubles, and 61 walks. In the ninth inning, he and former Yankee Horace Clarke are the only hitters to break up three no-hitter bids.
The Twins announced today that Mauer would permanently move to first base in order to shield their star player from further concussions and the daily physical wear of being a major league catcher. Mauer played in 120 games in 2014, compiling a slash line of.361/.371 with 4 home runs, 55 RBI, 60 runs, and 27 doubles.
In 2015, Mauer recorded a 98 percent for the first time in his career. Mauer set career records in games played (158), plate appearances (666), and at bats (592). He had ten home runs and 66 RBI as a rookie this year. Despite raising his defense and making only 2 errors at first base this season, Mauer posted a career-low batting average in 134 games for the Twins.
Mauer opened his 13th Opening Day in 2017, tying for fifth place with Harmon Killebrew. Mauer batted.305 with an.801 OPS on the season.
Mauer hit White Sox pitcher Aaron Bummer with a two-run 7th single off the 287th player in Major League Baseball.
Mauer made an appearance as catcher for the first time since his concussion in 2013, but was ruled out for backup Chris Gimenez after one pitch in the 9th inning of the 2018 MLB season. He was welcomed by the audience and both dugouts. He batted.282/.379 with 6 home runs and 48 RBIs, led all major league hitters with a batting average of.4047 with runners in scoring position, and had the highest percentage of fastballs (63.6%).
Mauer officially retired from baseball in an open letter to Twins fans on November 9, 2018. The Twins have announced that Mauer's No. 5 would be retired. During the 2019 season, there were seven children on record, with June 15 becoming the date.
Mauer holds the MLB single-season batting average for catchers (.365), which he set in 2009 and the highest single-season on-base percentage for a catcher (.444), which he also set in 2009. With a minimum of 500 games played, his on-base percentage is the highest among major league catchers. Mauer is also the first AL catcher to win a batting championship and holds the most batting titles won by a catcher in a career (3).
Mauer had a.306 batting average (2,123-for-6,930), 28 triples, 923 bases on balls,.439 slugging percentage, and a.338 slugging percentage in 1,858 games over the past 15 seasons. He had a.996 fielding percentage at catcher and first base throughout his career. In his MLB career, Mauer played 5 five-hit games and 23 four-hit games.
International career
In the 2013 World Baseball Classic, Mauer was selected as a catcher and first baseman for Team USA.