American League MVP to...

[lights1961]

WAY to go Joe... GREAT CATCHER and all around player... just hope the Twins can resign this dude after 2010.
HE doesnt CHEAT either...




November 23, 2009

CATCHER JOE MAUER WINS AMERICAN LEAGUE MVP AWARD


Mauer batted .365 in 2009, earning him his third AL batting title in five years.
Twins catcher Joe Mauer on Monday became the fifth player in Twins history to win the MVP Award, joining teammate Justin Morneau (2006), and former Twins Zoilo Versalles (1965), Harmon Killebrew (1969) and Rod Carew (1977).

Mauer batted .365 to earn his third AL batting title in four years, making the 26-year-old the only catcher in Major League history to accomplish the feat, and he's just the 10th player in AL history with three-or-more batting titles. He also becomes just the second catcher in the last 33 years to win the AL MVP Award. Ivan Rodriguez (1999) is the only other backstop besides Mauer to take home the honor since Yankees' catcher Thurman Munson won it in 1976.
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[Ehwmatt]

Is anyone ever going to hit .400 again? .365 is beastly still, but man, even the roiders didn't hit .400. Shows how tough it is to do!

[lights1961]

Is anyone ever going to hit .400 again? .365 is beastly still, but man, even the roiders didn't hit .400. Shows how tough it is to do!

he missed the first month and a half of the year... the guy is a complete stud...anywhere else he is even more studly... and to think 365 was with out Mornoe in the lineup the last month of the season.
where there would be someone batting that would take the pressure off Joe.

[S2M]

roids don't make you hit the ball, they allow you to hit it further, duh
!

[Enigma869]

Is anyone ever going to hit .400 again?

Absolutely NOT! If guys like George Brett, Wade Boggs, and Tony Gwynn couldn't pull it off...it isn't happening! The crazy thing about Ted Williams is that the year he hit .406, he came into the final day of the season hitting .401. His manager asked him if he wanted to sit out (to preserve the .400 average), and Williams said he wanted to play both games (it was a doubleheader). The fucker went out and raised his average 5 points on a day where he could have mailed it in. Could you imagine ANY player today not sitting out the final game(s) to preserve a .400 average?

[Enigma869]

I'm thrilled to see Mauer win the MVP. Dude is a class act and a GREAT hitter. He is the sole reason that the low salary Twins are in contention EVERY season. Good for Mauer. He absolutely deserved it. It's nice to see a catcher who actually still grasps the concept that hitting the ball is supposed to be part of the game.

[slucero]

Is anyone ever going to hit .400 again?

Absolutely NOT! If guys like George Brett, Wade Boggs, and Tony Gwynn couldn't pull it off...it isn't happening! The crazy thing about Ted Williams is that the year he hit .406, he came into the final day of the season hitting .401. His manager asked him if he wanted to sit out (to preserve the .400 average), and Williams said he wanted to play both games (it was a doubleheader). The fucker went out and raised his average 5 points on a day where he could have mailed it in. Could you imagine ANY player today not sitting out the final game(s) to preserve a .400 average?

Yup.... they don't make em' like they used to.

[Saint John]

roids don't make you hit the ball, they allow you to hit it further, duh

And balls going from the warning track into the stands don't improve your batting average? Moron.

[Maui Tom]

how do you know he doesn't cheat?

[bluejeangirl76]

roids don't make you hit the ball, they allow you to hit it further, duh

And balls going from the warning track into the stands don't improve your batting average? Moron.

Busted. You edited that.

[Enigma869]

And balls going from the warning track into the stands don't improve your batting average? Moron.

This theory would work well in the Ted Williams' era but I can't think of too many power hitters over the past 30 years who were high average guys. Power hitters typically hit the ball 400 feet or strikeout, which doesn't lend itself to a high batting average.

[Saint John]

And balls going from the warning track into the stands don't improve your batting average? Moron.

This theory would work well in the Ted Williams' era but I can't think of too many power hitters over the past 30 years who were high average guys. Power hitters typically hit the ball 400 feet or strikeout, which doesn't lend itself to a high batting average.

S2M said that they don't help you hit the ball, but they help you hit it further. (They actually do help you hit the ball in certain instances...muscles wear down during 162 games season and fastballs that would normally get by you because of minor injuries, fatigue, etc. are put in play instead) Anyway, I was purely arguing against his assertion that they don't help your batting average. I wasn't solely talking about the guys with the league's highest batting averages, John.