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Of the following "surprise" teams who maintains a playoff spot?

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Joe Mauer is something special

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Joe Mauer is something special

Post by SpezDispenser on Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:22 pm

As we get later into the baseball season, usually guys will tail off a little. Someone hitting .350 will find themselves around .320 now.

But Joe Mauer is still hitting .380. .380....20 percentage points away from .400. Now the likelihood of him hitting .400 is low, but imagine, if you will, how dominant a performance this is.

As of now he's 20 percentage points higher than the Hall of Famer (to be) Ichiro.

Ridiculous. A tip of the hat is required.

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http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/7062

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Post by hemlock on Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:27 pm

How long before he's scooped up in a trade by the Yankees or Bo Sox? We ought to have a pool.

.380 is extremely impressive.

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Re: Joe Mauer is something special

Post by SpezDispenser on Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:30 pm

hemlock wrote:How long before he's scooped up in a trade by the Yankees or Bo Sox? We ought to have a pool.

.380 is extremely impressive.


Never (I hope). He was born and bred in Minny, he apparently loves it there.

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Re: Joe Mauer is something special

Post by SensFan71 on Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:33 pm

SpezDispenser wrote:As we get later into the baseball season, usually guys will tail off a little. Someone hitting .350 will find themselves around .320 now.

But Joe Mauer is still hitting .380. .380....20 percentage points away from .400. Now the likelihood of him hitting .400 is low, but imagine, if you will, how dominant a performance this is.

As of now he's 20 percentage points higher than the Hall of Famer (to be) Ichiro.

Ridiculous. A tip of the hat is required.

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was the last time someone hit this high this late in the season when John Olerud flirted with .400 until he felt to .363? Ichiro is one hell of af contact hitter too, so Mauer has to be an excellent hitter, don't watch many Minny games, so have no idea.

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Re: Joe Mauer is something special

Post by shabbs on Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:39 pm

Well, he has one the batting title before... first catcher to ever do it in the MLB...

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2609825&campaign=rss&source=MLBHeadlines

He finished with an average of .347.

Not too shabby.

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Re: Joe Mauer is something special

Post by ddt on Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:14 pm

When this is used as a reference point, it really illustrates what an amazing hitter Ted Williams was.

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Re: Joe Mauer is something special

Post by SpezDispenser on Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:16 pm

ddt wrote:When this is used as a reference point, it really illustrates what an amazing hitter Ted Williams was.


I was just thinking that. :^^^^: Odd.

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Post by SensFan71 on Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:18 pm

Tony Gwynn was quite the hitter as well, not saying he is up to Ted Williams standards, it's a different game now and all players have more advantages than the guys like Mantle, Gehrig, Ruth, Aaron, and Williams.

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Post by SpezDispenser on Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:22 pm

SensFan71 wrote:Tony Gwynn was quite the hitter as well, not saying he is up to Ted Williams standards, it's a different game now and all players have more advantages than the guys like Mantle, Gehrig, Ruth, Aaron, and Williams.


Yeah Gwynn was awesome. Molitar as well.

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