Joe Mauer is a Major League Baseball catcher for the Minnesota Twins. A three-time American League batting champion, he established a major league record for recording the highest batting average by a catcher in 2009. He was eventually named as the winner of the 2009 Most Valuable Player award.

On February 1, 2009, the CBS affiliate in Minneapolis, WCCO, reported on their website that Mauer and the Twins had agreed to a new 10-year contract extension.http://wcco.com/sports/twins/joe.mauer.minnesota.2.1462891.html Salary details weren't announced in the story, and the Twins would neither confirm nor deny the story. Mauer was due to enter the final year of his current contract, and was scheduled to earn $12 million for the 2010 season.

Mauer attended Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he starred in football, basketball and baseball. The Twins drafted Mauer as the first overall selection in the 2001 amateur draft.MLB.com: Joe Mauer Bio

After a few years in the Twins farm system, Mauer made his major league debut for the Twins on April 5, 2005, going 2-3 with two runs scored in a Twins win over the Cleveland Indians. In 2006, he made his first All-Star team, hitting a .347 batting average to win the Silver Slugger Award and finished sixth in American League MVP voting.MLB.com: Joe Mauer Bio

What makes his 2009 MVP season even more remarkable is that he missed the first month of the season with an inflamed sacroiliac joint. he then returned to help guide the Twins to the American League Central Division title. Mauer joined Zolio Versalles, Harmon Killebrew, Rod Carew, and current teammate Justin Morneau as Twins' players that have won the league's MVP award.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AL_MVP

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  • Height: 6-5
  • Weight: 215
  • Years Pro: 7