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Joe Mauer \MAW-er\

Joseph Patrick Mauer

Positions: Catcher and First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 5", Weight: 230 lb.

Born: April 19, 1983 in St. Paul, MN
High Schools: Cretin HS (St. Paul, MN), Cretin-Derham Hall HS (St. Paul, MN)
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 2001 amateur draft.
Signed July 17, 2001. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 5, 2004 (Age 20)
Team: Twins 2004-2013
2013 Contract Status: Signed thru 2018, 8 yrs/$184M (11-18) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 9.000, Free Agent: 2019 [*], Agents: Ron Shapiro [*]
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Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
2004	MIN	AL	21	C	32	29	27	257.0	224	212	10	2	0	.991	2	1	9	6	7.77	6.94	.992	7.12	7.07	0	5	11	7	39%	32%	0
2004	MIN	AL	21	DH	1	1
2005	MIN	AL	22	C	116	110	107	999.2	742	693	44	5	6	.993	7	-3	8	-3	6.64	6.35	.992	6.79	6.72	6	26	31	23	43%	30%	0
2005	MIN	AL	22	DH	13	13
2006	MIN	AL	23	C	120	119	117	1059.1	914	866	44	4	7	.996	6	-4	7	-4	7.73	7.58	.992	7.09	6.99	5	31	36	22	38%	30%	0	AS,MVP-6,SS
2006	MIN	AL	23	DH	17	17																									AS,MVP-6,SS
2007	MIN	AL	24	C	91	88	83	777.2	634	598	35	1	5	.998	11	3	17	5	7.33	6.96	.991	7.28	7.20	4	29	21	24	53%	27%	0
2007	MIN	AL	24	DH	19	18
2008	MIN	AL	25	C	139	135	131	1203.0	886	831	52	3	1	.997	12	-7	12	-7	6.61	6.35	.991	7.26	7.19	4	40	51	29	36%	27%	1	AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
2008	MIN	AL	25	DH	5	4																									AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
2009	MIN	AL	26	C	109	105	100	939.0	758	724	31	3	3	.996	3	2	4	3	7.24	6.93	.992	7.48	7.39	9	23	54	19	26%	26%	0	AS,MVP-1,GG,SS
2009	MIN	AL	26	DH	28	28																									AS,MVP-1,GG,SS
2010	MIN	AL	27	C	112	107	102	951.2	733	696	34	3	3	.996	4	3	5	4	6.90	6.52	.990	7.44	7.37	4	27	53	19	26%	26%	0	AS,MVP-8,GG,SS
2010	MIN	AL	27	DH	23	22																									AS,MVP-8,GG,SS
2011	MIN	AL	28	C	52	47	42	408.2	313	291	18	4	2	.987	0	0	0	0	6.81	5.94	.992	7.61	7.57	4	17	28	12	30%	28%	0
2011	MIN	AL	28	1B	18	16	13	141.0	170	158	11	1	15	.994	3	1	25	9	10.79	9.39	.993	9.30	9.24
2011	MIN	AL	28	DH	14	14
2011	MIN	AL	28	OF	1	1	1	9.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1	0	107	0	3.00	3.00	.987	2.30	2.30
2011	MIN	AL	28	RF	1	1	1	9.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1	0	107	0	3.00	3.00	.987	2.10	2.10
2012	MIN	AL	29	C	74	72	66	628.1	453	425	25	3	5	.993	-6	-6	-11	-11	6.45	6.08	.993	7.99	7.94	1	22	56	9	14%	25%	1	AS,MVP-19
2012	MIN	AL	29	DH	42	42																									AS,MVP-19
2012	MIN	AL	29	1B	30	30	27	260.1	284	265	17	2	22	.993	-1	-1	-4	-5	9.75	9.40	.994	9.27	9.22								AS,MVP-19
2013	MIN	AL	30	C	28	28	28	250.2	194	179	13	2	2	.990	2	3	11	15	6.89	6.86	.993	8.34	8.28	2	6	6	6	50%	26%	0
2013	MIN	AL	30	DH	11	11
2013	MIN	AL	30	1B	1	1	1	9.0	7	6	1	0	0	1.000	0	0	0	0	7.00	7.00	.994	8.90	8.80
	10 Seasons			C	873	840	803	7475.0	5851	5515	306	30	34	.995	41	-6	7	0	7.01	6.67	.992	7.34	7.27	39	226	347	170	33%	27%	2
	3 Seasons			1B	49	47	41	410.1	461	429	29	3	37	.993	2	0	6	0	10.05	9.35	.994	9.27	9.22
	1 Season			RF	1	1	1	9.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1	0	107	0	3.00	3.00	.987	2.10	2.10
	1 Season			OF	1	1	1	9.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	1	0	107	0	3.00	3.00	.987	2.30	2.30
	10 Seasons			TOT	923	888	845	7894.1	6315	5947	335	33	71	.995	44	-6	7	0	7.16	6.81	.992	7.43	7.36	39	226	347	170	33%	27%	2
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	Rtot/yr	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

View Complete Notes on Fielding Data

Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof	Rctch	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	Rpm	Rdp	Rbnt	Rof	RerC	RsbC
2004	MIN	AL	21	C	2	9						2	1	6			0		1	0
2005	MIN	AL	22	C	7	8						7	-3	-3			0		-1	0
2006	MIN	AL	23	C	6	7						6	-4	-4			1		-1	-1
2007	MIN	AL	24	C	11	17						11	3	5					5	3
2008	MIN	AL	25	C	12	12						12	-7	-7			0		1	-1
2009	MIN	AL	26	C	3	4						3	2	3		0	0		4	-1
2010	MIN	AL	27	C	4	5						4	3	4		0	1		4	-1
2011	MIN	AL	28	C	0	0						0	0	0		0	1		1	0
2011	MIN	AL	28	1B	3	25	3	2	1	0			1	9	3	0	0
2011	MIN	AL	28	RF	1	107	1	1	0		0		0	0	0			0
2012	MIN	AL	29	C	-6	-11						-6	-6	-11			0		-2	-3
2012	MIN	AL	29	1B	-1	-4	-1	-0	-1	0			-1	-5	-2	0	1
2013	MIN	AL	30	C	2	11	0					2	3	15			0		3	1
2013	MIN	AL	30	1B	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
	10 Seasons			C	41	7	0					41	-6	0		0	3		15	-3
	3 Seasons			1B	2	6	2	1	1	0			0	0	1	0	1
	1 Season			RF	1	107	1	1	0		0		0	0	0			0
	10 Seasons			TOT	44	7	3	2	1	0	0	41	-6	0	1	0	4	0	15	-3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	C	1B	RF	OF	DH	PH
2004	MIN	AL	21	35	30	35	32	32	0	0	0	1	5
2005	MIN	AL	22	131	123	131	116	116	0	0	0	13	7
2006	MIN	AL	23	140	136	140	120	120	0	0	0	17	4
2007	MIN	AL	24	109	106	109	91	91	0	0	0	19	3
2008	MIN	AL	25	146	139	146	139	139	0	0	0	5	7
2009	MIN	AL	26	138	133	138	109	109	0	0	0	28	5
2010	MIN	AL	27	137	129	137	112	112	0	0	0	23	8
2011	MIN	AL	28	82	78	82	66	52	18	1	1	14	4
2012	MIN	AL	29	147	144	147	102	74	30	0	0	42	3
2013	MIN	AL	30	40	40	40	29	28	1	0	0	11	0
	10 Seasons			1105	1058	1105	916	873	49	1	1	173	46

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- C*

					Pitching Stats						Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	ERA	RAvg	Fld	F2O%	XI	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	SO	Tot	1B	2B	3B	K23	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	263	n23	GB	bFld	bF2O%
2004	MIN	AL	21	1047	3.36	3.71	6	83%	0	0	212	3	0	3	206	10	2	0	0	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	50%
2005	MIN	AL	22	4132	3.69	4.09	34	97%	1	0	693	26	3	6	658	44	6	0	0	14	5	0	3	2	0	6	0	0	0	4	75%
2006	MIN	AL	23	4423	3.92	4.21	31	90%	0	0	866	22	3	12	829	44	6	0	0	17	4	0	2	2	1	7	0	0	2	7	86%
2007	MIN	AL	24	3250	3.78	4.07	16	100%	0	0	598	15	2	7	574	35	1	0	0	12	1	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	2	100%
2008	MIN	AL	25	5126	4.20	4.68	40	98%	0	0	831	31	5	6	789	52	8	0	0	20	3	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	5	80%
2009	MIN	AL	26	4044	4.29	4.52	31	100%	0	0	724	25	3	7	689	31	4	0	0	10	3	0	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	3	100%
2010	MIN	AL	27	3988	3.81	4.08	28	100%	0	0	696	17	3	9	667	34	11	0	0	8	3	0	0	3	0	3	0	1	1	10	100%
2011	MIN	AL	28	1784	4.43	5.02	13	100%	0	0	291	6	1	6	277	18	4	0	0	2	4	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	5	100%
2012	MIN	AL	29	2712	4.90	5.30	19	95%	0	0	425	14	4	9	398	25	6	0	0	10	3	0	0	3	1	5	0	2	2	5	100%
2013	MIN	AL	30	1068	4.02	4.42	13	85%	0	0	179	6	0	4	169	13	5	0	0	2	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	100%
	10 Seasons			31574	4.05	4.40	231	96%	1	0	5515	165	24	69	5256	306	53	0	0	98	30	1	6	23	2	34	0	3	5	44	91%
	MLB Averages				4.25	4.62		92%																							85%

Advanced Fielding -- C Baserunning*

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PB	WP	SBO	SB	CS	CSctch	CS%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	RBA	RK	SBlev	CSlev
2004	MIN	AL	21	0	5	363	11	7	5	39%	10	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	20	7	0.99	1.01
2005	MIN	AL	22	6	26	1441	31	23	17	43%	29	22	2	1	0	0	0	0	88	28	1.34	1.11
2006	MIN	AL	23	5	31	1562	36	22	17	38%	33	16	3	5	0	1	0	0	100	25	1.15	1.18
2007	MIN	AL	24	4	29	1167	21	24	19	53%	18	21	3	3	0	0	0	0	72	24	1.21	1.12
2008	MIN	AL	25	4	40	1875	51	29	18	36%	44	27	7	2	0	0	1	0	124	33	1.23	1.04
2009	MIN	AL	26	9	23	1515	54	19	17	26%	48	16	6	3	0	0	0	0	106	23	1.21	1.12
2010	MIN	AL	27	4	27	1446	53	19	15	26%	41	18	12	1	0	0	0	0	104	23	1.34	1.26
2011	MIN	AL	28	4	17	668	28	12	10	30%	24	11	4	1	0	0	0	0	64	15	1.14	1.06
2012	MIN	AL	29	1	22	1019	56	9	5	14%	52	9	4	0	0	0	1	0	91	11	1.17	1.37
2013	MIN	AL	30	2	6	418	6	6	6	50%	4	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	17	6	1.13	1.15
	10 Seasons			39	226	11474	347	170	129	33%	303	152	44	17	0	1	2	0	786	195	1.22	1.13
	MLB Averages									28%											1.27	1.24

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

											Putouts					Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	3U	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	363	361	36	GB	GBs	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
2011	MIN	AL	28	621	60%	79%	36%	40	93%	0	158	10	147	1	16	11	8	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	15	0	0	0	13	0	2	1	1	2	50%
2012	MIN	AL	29	1138	59%	80%	34%	48	94%	0	265	17	246	1	16	17	9	2	1	3	2	0	2	0	2	22	0	0	0	19	0	3	1	2	2	100%
2013	MIN	AL	30	36	61%	69%	19%	0		0	6	0	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3 Seasons			1795	60%	79%	34%	88	93%	0	429	27	398	3	32	29	17	5	1	3	3	0	3	0	3	37	0	0	0	32	0	5	2	3	4	75%
	MLB Averages				58%	76%	32%		94%																											83%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
2011	MIN	AL	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	45	67%	87%	33%	4	75%
	1 Season			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	45	67%	87%	33%	4	75%
	MLB Averages																														46.9%			2.3%			58%	76%	40%		50%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2006 * 2008 (C) 2009 (C) 2010 (C) 2012 *	Awards (yr lg award) 2006 AL batting_title 2008 AL batting_title 2009 AL batting_title 2009 AL MVP	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2006 AL (6, 30%) 2008 AL (4, 48%) 2009 AL (1, 99%) 2010 AL (8, 25%) 2012 AL (19, 2%) 1 MVP 2.04 Career Shares (87th)	Gold Gloves 2008 AL (C) 2009 AL (C) 2010 AL (C) All multiple winners
Silver Sluggers 2006 AL (C) 2008 AL (C) 2009 AL (C) 2010 AL (C) All multiple winners	Putouts† s c a p y Active 5,947 (24th)	Def. Games as C s c a p y 2008 AL 139 (2nd) 2010 AL 112 (5th) Active 873 (9th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 2006 AL 866 (3rd) 2008 AL 831 (5th) Active 5,515 (8th) Career 5,515 (84th)
Assists as C s c a p y Active 306 (19th)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y Active 30 (23rd)	Double Plays Turned as C s c a p y 2005 AL 6 (2nd) 2006 AL 7 (3rd) 2013 AL 2 (2nd) Active 34 (17th)	Passed Balls s c a p y 2009 AL 9 (2nd) Active 39 (16th)
Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y Active 347 (15th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 2008 AL 29 (3rd) Active 170 (12th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 2005 AL 42.6 (3rd) 2007 AL 53.3 (1st) 2013 AL 50.0 (3rd) Active 32.9 (10th)	Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y 2005 AL 7 (2nd) 2006 AL 6 (2nd) 2007 AL 11 (2nd) 2008 AL 12 (1st) 2010 AL 4 (3rd) 2013 AL 2 (4th) Active 41 (3rd) Career 41 (26th)
Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y 2006 AL 7.73 (4th) Active 7.01 (24th) Career 7.01 (67th)	Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 2006 AL 7.58 (1st) 2007 AL 6.96 (5th) Active 6.67 (19th) Career 6.67 (43rd)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 2006 AL .996 (4th) 2007 AL .998 (1st) 2008 AL .997 (1st) 2009 AL .996 (3rd) 2010 AL .996 (1st) Active .995 (4th) Career .995 (6th)	Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y 2011 AL 3 (5th)
Salary s c a p y 2011 AL $23,000,000 (5th) 2011 AL $23,000,000 (5th) 2013 AL $23,000,000 (2nd) 2013 AL $23,000,000 (2nd)	Youngest s c a p y 2004 AL born 1983-04-19 (8th) 2004 AL born 1983-04-19 (8th)

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