MLB: ***2024 Minnesota Twins***
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That's now 4 kids from St Paul MN in the baseball HOF. Unreal.
Grew up on Mauer. This honestly hits me right in the feels.
Only three time batting champ catcher. Ever. And only played for our Minnesota Twins. Another Twins hat gets it well deserved place in Cooperstown.
What a great player Mauer was. Pleasant surprise he was a first ballot guy.
Wish he could’ve experienced a WS. I think losing an unhittable Liriano in 2006 and Morneau in 2010 put a dent in two good teams’ chances to make a run.
Wish he could’ve experienced a WS. I think losing an unhittable Liriano in 2006 and Morneau in 2010 put a dent in two good teams’ chances to make a run.
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Little video narrated by Justin Morneau on Mauer's election.
I thought Mauer had no shot to get in this year say 6 months ago and he'd have to slowly climb to get his shot, happy to be wrong.
So… it appears this TV stuff is really limiting the Twins ability to be aggressive at all in the middle of their chance to be really competitive window. That anyone else’s read on their roster?
I’m sure Justin will be a big part of Joe’s day in Cooperstown. M&M boys one last time.
I still think they end up trading for a solid starting pitcher. Been hearing some Alek Manoah rumors.
Man, I hate to do this, but I have to pose a contrarian opinion regarding Mauer in the HOF. The guy was the most overpaid singles/slap hitter the game has ever seen. Couldn't hit for power at all, save for one blip season where he had 28. Don't think he was ever over 20 again, might not have ever even surpassed 15 if memory serves. He was great at the things he was good at, but ultimately was in imperfect player that got paid too much money by a cash-strapped front office that struggled to build anything more than divisional round playoff teams during his career. I like Joe a lot as a human and loved watching him in his prime years when he was still a catcher, but by the last 4-5 years of his career I was really hoping the Twins would move on from him and his contract. His deal is a lot like the Vikings Kirk Cousins situation in my opinion.
He was probably one of the best catchers of his era. Can you name 5 better catchers that played in his era? Buster Posey? Yadier Molina?... And who else? He for sure had a HOF career
Eh, he played about as much Catcher as Buster Posey. No one is going to argue Posey isn't a HOFer. Mauer actually has 10 higher career WAR
Perhaps I am being a bit harsh then. Could be I have some recency bias looking on it now.
He also hit a ton of doubles. Not fair at all to call him a slap singles hitter.