Vote for Joe Mauer

Click to see Joe Mauer's stats for this season.

Mauer is in his third season as a catcher for the Minnesota Twins. Last year, he batted .294 in 131 games. This year, he's started off very hot is leading the league with a .386 batting average. In the past week alone, Mauer has gone 15-24--for your statisticians out there, that's a .625 batting average!

Since June 1 of this season, Mauer went from .362 to .386, and that's with 3-5 at bats a game.

If the Twins are wise, they will move Joe Mauer to a different position to extend his playing career as catchers often suffer a lot of wear and tear--just look at what the Astros did with Craig Biggio. If they do that, he'll get to 3,000 career hits. He's in his third season but only his second full one, and he has 258 hits in 806 at bats (.306 AVG). It took Albert Pujols and Todd Helton only 3,003 at bats to get 1,000 career hits. Ichiro Suzuki had 26 less at bats to get 1000 hits. As hot as Mauer is right now, he'll finish the season with 226 hits over 585 at bats.

He's been nicknamed "Big Ichiro."

I don't care what you do but vote for Mauer in the catcher's spot.