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Joe Mauer

Joseph Patrick Mauer

Position: Catcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 5", Weight: 235 lb.

Born: April 19, 1983 in St. Paul, MN
High School: Cretin-Derham Hall (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 2004-2011
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2018, 8 yrs/$184M (11-18) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 8.000, Free Agent: 2019 [*], Agents: Ron Shapiro [*]
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 3, 2012, 8:12PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #215. Bobby Wallace… #216. Andruw Jones… #217. King Kelly… #218. JOE MAUER… #219. Bobby Veach… #220. Willie Randolph… #221. Boog Powell… 

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 .939 137 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 1.031 170 307 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 .729 103 109 9 3 0 2 7 23D/9
8 Seasons 918 3911 3388 545 1096 216 16 84 502 35 11 465 387 .323 .403 .471 .874 134 1596 107 15 3 40 86
162 Game Avg. 162 690 598 96 193 38 3 15 89 6 2 82 68 .323 .403 .471 .874 134 282 19 3 1 7 15

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
2004 21 MIN AL 122 5 1 1 0 2 2 4 15 1.5 13 1.3 0.2 $300,000 2/D
2005 22 MIN AL 554 5 0 -3 1 7 6 18 34 3.4 27 2.7 0.7 $325,000 *2D
2006 23 MIN AL 608 38 2 0 -1 6 6 20 71 7.0 65 6.4 0.6 $400,000 *2D AS,MVP-6,SS
2007 24 MIN AL 471 12 3 0 1 11 4 15 46 4.6 35 3.5 1.1 $3,750,000 2D
2008 25 MIN AL 633 45 2 -1 0 12 9 21 88 8.7 76 7.6 1.1 $6,250,000 *2/D AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
2009 26 MIN AL 606 57 -2 -3 1 3 4 19 79 7.5 76 7.2 0.3 $10,500,000 *2D AS,MVP-1,GG,SS
2010 27 MIN AL 584 30 3 -2 -0 4 5 20 60 5.9 56 5.5 0.4 $12,500,000 *2D AS,MVP-8,GG,SS
2011 28 MIN AL 333 3 0 0 -1 3 0 11 16 1.7 14 1.4 0.3 $23,000,000 23D/9
8 Seasons 3911 195 10 -7 0 48 36 128 410 40.3 362 35.6 4.7 $57,025,000

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 Seasons (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% 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% 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 -1 8 -1 6.64 6.35 .992 6.79 6.72 6 26 31 23 43% 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 -2 7 -2 7.73 7.58 .992 7.09 6.99 5 31 36 22 38% 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 8 17 12 7.33 6.96 .991 7.28 7.20 4 29 21 24 53% 0
2007 MIN AL 24 DH 18 18
2008 MIN AL 25 C 139 135 131 1203.0 886 831 52 3 1 .997 12 0 12 0 6.61 6.35 .991 7.26 7.19 4 40 51 29 36% 1 AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
2008 MIN AL 25 DH 4 4 AS,MVP-4,GG,SS
2009 MIN AL 26 C 109 105 100 939.0 758 724 31 3 3 .996 3 3 4 4 7.24 6.93 .992 7.48 7.39 9 23 54 19 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% 0 AS,MVP-8,GG,SS
2010 MIN AL 27 DH 22 22 AS,MVP-8,GG,SS
2011 MIN AL 28 C 52 47 42 408.2 313 291 18 4 2 .987 -0 1 -1 3 6.81 5.94 .992 7.61 7.57 4 17 28 12 30% 0
2011 MIN AL 28 1B 18 16 13 141.0 170 158 11 1 15 .994 2 2 21 17 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 0 103 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 0 103 0 3.00 3.00 .987 2.10 2.10
8 Seasons C 771 740 709 6596.0 5204 4911 268 25 27 .995 45 13 8 2 7.07 6.72 .991 7.24 7.16 36 198 285 155 35% 1
1 Season 1B 18 16 13 141.0 170 158 11 1 15 .994 2 2 21 17 10.79 9.39 .993 9.30 9.24
1 Season OF 1 1 1 9.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1 0 103 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 0 103 0 3.00 3.00 .987 2.10 2.10
8 Seasons TOT 790 757 723 6746.0 5377 5072 279 26 42 .995 48 15 9 2 7.14 6.77 .991 7.27 7.21 36 198 285 155 35% 1
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% 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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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)

Awards (yr lg award)
2009 AL MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2006 AL (6, 30%)
2008 AL (4, 48%)
2009 AL (1, 99%)
2010 AL (8, 25%)
1 MVP
2.02 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  7.0 (2nd)
2008 AL  8.7 (1st)
2009 AL  7.9 (2nd)
2010 AL  5.9 (9th)
Active  40.3 (33rd)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2006 AL  7.0 (2nd)
2008 AL  8.7 (1st)
2009 AL  7.9 (1st)
2010 AL  5.9 (8th)
Active  40.3 (25th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2006 AL  6.4 (4th)
2008 AL  7.6 (1st)
2009 AL  7.5 (1st)
2010 AL  5.5 (7th)
Active  35.6 (26th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
Active  4.7 (44th)

Batting Average s c a p y
2006 AL  .347 (1st)
2008 AL  .328 (1st)
2009 AL  .365 (1st)
2010 AL  .327 (3rd)
Active  .323 (3rd)
Career  .323 (46th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2006 AL  .429 (3rd)
2008 AL  .413 (2nd)
2009 AL  .444 (1st)
2010 AL  .402 (3rd)
Active  .403 (6th)
Career  .403 (49th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2009 AL  .587 (1st)
Career  .471 (236th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2006 AL  .936 (7th)
2009 AL  1.031 (1st)
Active  .874 (25th)
Career  .874 (109th)

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)

Singles s c a p y
2008 AL  132 (7th)
2009 AL  132 (8th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2006 AL  144 (7th)
2008 AL  134 (8th)
2009 AL  170 (1st)
Active  134 (18th)
Career  134 (122nd)

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  57 (1st)
Active  190 (29th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2006 AL  3.6 (6th)
2008 AL  3.0 (7th)
2009 AL  5.2 (1st)
Active  17.7 (29th)

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

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2006 AL  .682 (8th)
2009 AL  .791 (1st)
Active  .660 (23rd)
Career  .660 (170th)

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)
Active  86 (18th)
Career  86 (153rd)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2006 AL  24 (6th)
2008 AL  21 (9th)

AB per SO s c a p y
2008 AL  10.7 (4th)
2010 AL  9.6 (6th)
Active  8.8 (12th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2006 AL  39.43 (9th)
2008 AL  42.42 (3rd)
2009 AL  55.90 (1st)
Active  207.41 (30th)
Career  207.41 (186th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2008 AL  4.7 (1st)
2009 AL  3.7 (3rd)
Active  16.6 (34th)
Career  16.6 (216th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2008 AL  3.3 (6th)
2009 AL  5.0 (1st)
Active  15.8 (38th)
Career  15.8 (236th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2006 AL  3.6 (9th)
2008 AL  4.0 (3rd)
2009 AL  5.2 (1st)
Active  19.5 (29th)
Career  19.5 (194th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
2008 AL  139 (2nd)
2010 AL  112 (5th)
Active  771 (14th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
2006 AL  866 (3rd)
2008 AL  831 (5th)
Active  4,911 (15th)

Assists as C s c a p y
Active  268 (22nd)

Passed Balls s c a p y
2009 AL  9 (2nd)
Active  36 (16th)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
Active  285 (24th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
2008 AL  29 (3rd)
Active  155 (17th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
2005 AL  42.6 (3rd)
2007 AL  53.3 (1st)
Active  35.2 (9th)

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  45 (4th)
Career  45 (23rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
2006 AL  7.73 (2nd)
2007 AL  7.33 (4th)
Career  7.07 (58th)

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  6.72 (13th)
Career  6.72 (30th)

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 (2nd)
Career  .995 (3rd)

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 1950-1973, 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 (151), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 26 (872), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 80 (236), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 28 (370), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Paul Lo Duca (892)
  2. Hanley Ramirez (862)
  3. Victor Martinez (842)
  4. Brian McCann (840)
  5. Jocko Milligan (839)
  6. Michael Barrett (838)
  7. Brian Harper (833)
  8. Glenn Wright (832)
  9. Dustin Pedroia (831)
  10. Spud Davis (830)
Similar Batters through 28 
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  1. Mickey Cochrane (913) *
  2. Bill Dickey (886) *
  3. Jason Kendall (876)
  4. Yogi Berra (861) *
  5. Victor Martinez (855)
  6. Jose Vidro (854)
  7. Gary Carter (852) *
  8. Derek Jeter (844)
  9. Charlie Gehringer (842) *
  10. Nomar Garciaparra (842)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
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 (936)  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 (900) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Mickey Cochrane (913) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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$23,000,000
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
Career to date (may be incomplete)$57,025,000Does 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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