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Joseph Patrick Mauer (born April 19, 1983) is an American former professional baseball catcher and first baseman who spent his entire 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Minnesota Twins.
Mike Piazza is the all-time leader in Silver Slugger Awards among catchers, winning ten consecutive from 1993 to 2002. The Silver Slugger Award is awarded annually to the best offensive player at each position in both the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), as determined by the coaches and managers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
The Twins were so sure Mauer was ready for the majors that they traded A.J. Pierzynski, a former All-Star catcher, to San Francisco after the 2003 season and named Mauer the starting catcher for 2004.
In 2009 Joe won the American League Most Valuable Player award, the only first-round pick of the Twins to win the award. [6] Mauer has also won three Silver Slugger Awards, two Rawlings Gold Glove Awards, and is the only catcher in MLB history to win three batting titles. [6] [7]
Mauer, one of 273 players elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, joined Johnny Bench and Ivan Rodriguez as the only catchers to be voted into the Hall of Fame during their first year on ...
In that season, several catchers, like the Royals' Salvador Perez, the Tigers' Alex Avila and Boston's David Ross, had landed on the concussion list. ... Joe Mauer had remarked earlier in the 2013 ...
Iván Rodríguez has won 13 Gold Gloves, the most among catchers. The Rawlings Gold Glove Award, usually referred to as the Gold Glove, is the award given annually to the Major League Baseball players judged to have exhibited superior individual fielding performances at each fielding position in both the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), as voted by the managers and coaches in ...
Todd Helton thought back to when he was a kid being coached by his father, Jerry, a minor league catcher in the 1960s. Helton, Adrián Beltré and Joe Mauer were voted into Cooperstown on Tuesday ...