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Joe Mauer

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 School: 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
Team: Twins 2004-2012
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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Fine Details  · Last updated Dec 13, 2012 12:17AM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #159. Hugh Duffy… #160. Monte Ward… #161. Bobby Doerr… #162. JOE MAUER… #163. Sam Rice… #164. Stan Hack… #165. Will Clark… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2004 21 MIN AL 35 122 107 18 33 8 1 6 17 1 0 11 14 .308 .369 .570 .939 138 61 1 1 0 3 0 2/D
2005 22 MIN AL 131 554 489 61 144 26 2 9 55 13 1 61 64 .294 .372 .411 .783 107 201 9 1 0 3 12 *2D
2006 23 MIN AL 140 608 521 86 181 36 4 13 84 8 3 79 54 .347 .429 .507 .936 144 264 24 1 0 7 21 *2D AS,MVP-6,SS
2007 24 MIN AL 109 471 406 62 119 27 3 7 60 7 1 57 51 .293 .382 .426 .808 118 173 11 3 2 3 10 2D
2008 25 MIN AL 146 633 536 98 176 31 4 9 85 1 1 84 50 .328 .413 .451 .864 134 242 21 1 1 11 8 *2/D AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
2009 26 MIN AL 138 606 523 94 191 30 1 28 96 4 1 76 63 .365 .444 .587 1.031 171 307 13 2 0 5 14 *2D AS,MVP-1,GG,SS
2010 27 MIN AL 137 584 510 88 167 43 1 9 75 1 4 65 53 .327 .402 .469 .871 140 239 19 3 0 6 14 *2D AS,MVP-8,GG,SS
2011 28 MIN AL 82 333 296 38 85 15 0 3 30 0 0 32 38 .287 .360 .368 .729 102 109 9 3 0 2 7 23D/9
2012 29 MIN AL 147 641 545 81 174 31 4 10 85 8 4 90 88 .319 .416 .446 .861 141 243 23 2 1 3 10 2D3 AS,MVP-19
9 Yrs 1065 4552 3933 626 1270 247 20 94 587 43 15 555 475 .323 .405 .468 .873 135 1839 130 17 4 43 96
162 Game Avg. 162 692 598 95 193 38 3 14 89 7 2 84 72 .323 .405 .468 .873 135 280 20 3 1 7 15

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2004 21 MIN AL 35 122 6 1 0 1 2 10 1.0 4 14 1.4 .527 .506 1.2 0.3 13 $300,000 2/D
2005 22 MIN AL 131 554 2 1 1 -3 6 7 0.8 19 26 2.5 .506 .504 2.8 0.4 29 $325,000 *2D
2006 23 MIN AL 140 608 34 2 -1 -4 6 37 3.7 21 58 5.6 .525 .522 5.9 0.2 62 $400,000 *2D AS,MVP-6,SS
2007 24 MIN AL 109 471 11 3 1 3 4 21 2.2 16 37 3.6 .519 .513 3.3 0.7 34 $3,750,000 2D
2008 25 MIN AL 146 633 28 2 0 -7 8 31 3.4 22 53 5.3 .521 .519 5.9 0.2 60 $6,250,000 *2/D AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
2009 26 MIN AL 138 606 53 -2 1 2 4 58 5.8 20 78 7.6 .540 .534 7.4 0.7 76 $10,500,000 *2D AS,MVP-1,GG,SS
2010 27 MIN AL 137 584 26 1 -0 3 4 34 3.7 20 54 5.5 .526 .522 5.2 0.9 51 $12,500,000 *2D AS,MVP-8,GG,SS
2011 28 MIN AL 82 333 3 0 -1 1 0 3 0.4 11 14 1.4 .504 .502 1.4 0.2 13 $23,000,000 23D/9
2012 29 MIN AL 147 641 32 -0 -3 -7 -2 20 2.1 22 41 4.1 .514 .513 4.9 -0.9 48 $23,000,000 2D3 AS,MVP-19
9 Seasons 1065 4552 195 9 -2 -11 31 222 23.1 154 376 37.0 .520 .515 38.0 2.9 387 $80,025,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2006 23 MIN AL ALDS OAK L 3 12 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .182 .250 .182 .432 2 0 0 0 0 0
2009 26 MIN AL ALDS NYY L 3 14 12 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 4 .417 .500 .500 1.000 6 0 0 0 0 0
2010 27 MIN AL ALDS NYY L 3 13 12 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .250 .308 .250 .558 3 0 0 0 0 0
3 Yrs (3 Series) 9 39 35 1 10 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 7 .286 .359 .314 .673 11 0 0 0 0 0
3 ALDS 9 39 35 1 10 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 7 .286 .359 .314 .673 11 0 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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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 5 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 -4 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 -5 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 -6 -5 9.75 9.40 .994 9.27 9.22 AS,MVP-19
9 Seasons C 845 812 775 7224.1 5657 5336 293 28 32 .995 40 -11 7 -1 7.01 6.66 .992 7.30 7.23 37 220 341 164 32% 27% 2
2 Seasons 1B 48 46 40 401.1 454 423 28 3 37 .993 2 0 5 0 10.11 9.40 .994 9.28 9.23
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
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
9 Seasons TOT 894 859 816 7634.2 6114 5762 321 31 69 .995 42 -11 7 -1 7.17 6.80 .992 7.40 7.33 37 220 341 164 32% 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-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 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 1948 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 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) 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 1948 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

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

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
2006 AL  5.6 (6th)
2009 AL  7.6 (3rd)
Active  37.0 (39th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2006 AL  5.6 (4th)
2008 AL  5.3 (7th)
2009 AL  7.6 (2nd)
2010 AL  5.5 (10th)
Active  37.0 (29th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2006 AL  5.9 (3rd)
2008 AL  5.9 (3rd)
2009 AL  7.4 (1st)
2010 AL  5.2 (9th)
2012 AL  4.9 (9th)
Active  38.0 (21st)

Batting Average s c a p y
2006 AL  .347 (1st)
2008 AL  .328 (1st)
2009 AL  .365 (1st)
2010 AL  .327 (3rd)
2012 AL  .319 (4th)
Active  .323 (2nd)
Career  .323 (45th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2006 AL  .429 (3rd)
2008 AL  .413 (2nd)
2009 AL  .444 (1st)
2010 AL  .402 (3rd)
2012 AL  .416 (1st)
Active  .405 (6th)
Career  .405 (45th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2009 AL  .587 (1st)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2006 AL  .936 (7th)
2009 AL  1.031 (1st)
2012 AL  .861 (10th)
Active  .873 (24th)
Career  .873 (111th)

Hits s c a p y
2009 AL  191 (6th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2009 AL  307 (7th)

Doubles s c a p y
2010 AL  43 (8th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2008 AL  84 (7th)
2012 AL  90 (4th)
Active  555 (39th)

Singles s c a p y
2008 AL  132 (7th)
2009 AL  132 (8th)
2012 AL  129 (8th)
Active  909 (46th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2006 AL  144 (7th)
2008 AL  134 (8th)
2009 AL  171 (1st)
2010 AL  140 (10th)
2012 AL  141 (7th)
Active  135 (20th)
Career  135 (118th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2009 AL  138 (1st)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2006 AL  39 (6th)
2008 AL  32 (7th)
2009 AL  58 (1st)
2012 AL  36 (6th)
Active  226 (24th)
Career  226 (222nd)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2006 AL  3.6 (6th)
2008 AL  3.0 (7th)
2009 AL  5.3 (1st)
2012 AL  3.5 (6th)
Active  21.2 (25th)
Career  21.2 (248th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2006 AL  261 (9th)
2008 AL  261 (7th)
2009 AL  269 (6th)
2012 AL  266 (3rd)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2006 AL  .682 (8th)
2009 AL  .791 (1st)
2012 AL  .669 (10th)
Active  .661 (22nd)
Career  .661 (167th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2008 AL  11 (1st)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2005 AL  12 (4th)
2006 AL  21 (3rd)
2009 AL  14 (2nd)
2010 AL  14 (2nd)
2012 AL  10 (8th)
Active  96 (16th)
Career  96 (128th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2006 AL  24 (6th)
2008 AL  21 (9th)
2012 AL  23 (5th)
Active  130 (44th)

AB per SO s c a p y
2008 AL  10.7 (4th)
2010 AL  9.6 (6th)
Active  8.3 (17th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2006 AL  39.43 (9th)
2008 AL  42.42 (6th)
2009 AL  55.90 (1st)
2012 AL  47.82 (4th)
Active  256.79 (25th)
Career  256.79 (155th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2008 AL  4.7 (1st)
2009 AL  3.7 (3rd)
2012 AL  4.1 (6th)
Active  20.8 (27th)
Career  20.8 (168th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2008 AL  3.3 (6th)
2009 AL  5.0 (1st)
Active  18.7 (31st)
Career  18.7 (203rd)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2006 AL  3.6 (9th)
2008 AL  4.0 (4th)
2009 AL  5.2 (1st)
2012 AL  4.7 (4th)
Active  24.4 (26th)
Career  24.4 (160th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
2008 AL  139 (2nd)
2010 AL  112 (5th)
Active  845 (13th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
2006 AL  866 (3rd)
2008 AL  831 (5th)
Active  5,336 (11th)
Career  5,336 (92nd)

Assists as C s c a p y
Active  293 (22nd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
2009 AL  9 (2nd)
Active  37 (18th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
Active  341 (18th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
2008 AL  29 (3rd)
Active  164 (15th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
2005 AL  42.6 (3rd)
2007 AL  53.3 (1st)
Active  32.5 (13th)

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)
Active  40 (4th)
Career  40 (27th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
2006 AL  7.73 (2nd)
2007 AL  7.33 (4th)
Career  7.01 (66th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
2005 AL  6.35 (5th)
2006 AL  7.58 (1st)
2007 AL  6.96 (4th)
Active  6.66 (21st)
Career  6.66 (42nd)

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 (3rd)
Career  .995 (5th)

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)

Youngest s c a p y
2004 AL  born 1983-04-19 (8th)

                                         

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 15 (154), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 32 (748), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 86 (212), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 45 (114), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Catcher (16th), 37.0 career WAR/34.2 7yr-peak WAR/35.6 JAWS
Average HOF C (out of 14) = 49.3 career WAR/32.0 7yr-peak WAR/40.7 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Victor Martinez (896)
  2. Glenn Wright (869)
  3. Paul Lo Duca (855)
  4. Hanley Ramirez (853)
  5. Jack Clements (846)
  6. John Valentin (844)
  7. Spud Davis (844)
  8. Dustin Pedroia (841)
  9. Manny Sanguillen (827)
  10. Todd Walker (821)
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  1. Mickey Cochrane (898) *
  2. Travis Jackson (870) *
  3. Jason Kendall (862)
  4. Bill Dickey (862) *
  5. Derek Jeter (862)
  6. Michael Young (860)
  7. Charlie Gehringer (854) *
  8. Craig Biggio (849)
  9. Jose Vidro (848)
  10. Lou Boudreau (848) *
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Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Benito Santiago (954)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Shanty Hogan (927)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Shanty Hogan (943)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Shanty Hogan (935)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Bill Dickey (897) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Mickey Cochrane (899) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Mickey Cochrane (913) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Mickey Cochrane (898) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

  • June 5, 2001: Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 2001 amateur draft. Player signed July 17, 2001.
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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
200421Minnesota Twins$300,0004/7/04 AP
200522Minnesota Twins$325,000
200623Minnesota Twins$400,000
200724Minnesota Twins$3,750,000
200825Minnesota Twins$6,250,000
200926Minnesota Twins$10,500,000
201027Minnesota Twins$12,500,000
201128Minnesota Twins$23,000,000
201229Minnesota Twins$23,000,000contracts
201330Minnesota Twins$23,000,000
201431Minnesota Twins$23,000,000
201532Minnesota Twins$23,000,000
201633Minnesota Twins$23,000,000
201734Minnesota Twins$23,000,000
201835Minnesota Twins$23,000,000
Earliest Free Agent: 2019
Career to date (may be incomplete)$80,025,000Does not include future salaries
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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