Hey All,
Hope your Monday is going well. For those not aware, today is the day we find out who wins the American League MVP award. The main contenders appear to be Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira of the New York Yankees and Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins. Mauer is said to be the odds on favorite.
If indeed Mauer wins as expected, this is both good and bad for the Twins. It is good, obviously, not only because Mauer had maybe the greatest season ever produced by a catcher, hitting .365, 28 home runs and 96 RBI even though he missed all of April with an inflamed joint in his back. But also because it brings more attention to just how great of a player he has been, is and will be for years to come barring injury. It also sheds a good deal of light on the Twins as an organization who would have had two MVP winners in the last 4 seasons in Mauer and Justin Morneau.
So what about is bad? Well, as most of you may know, Mauer's contract is up after this coming season and of course the Twins are trying to lock up the hometown hero to a long-term extension this offseason. Winning this award will make it even that much more difficult to accomplish because it can be used as a bargaining chip by Mauer's agent during negotiations. It could potentially push his price tag to a point beyond where the Twins are willing to go to retain him. Twins fans, let's hope I am just a big worry wart and that this does not happen and we have Joseph Patrick Mauer in a Twins uniform, where he belongs, for the length of what should prove to be maybe the greatest career any of us have ever seen from a catcher.
The announcement will come at 1:00 p.m. CST and I will post the results when they are in. Take care everyone.
Joe
Attention Amazon shoppers! Below is a link to a page I made using our Amazon Associates store. I would ask that you use it next time you wish to go shopping at Amazon.com, especially if you are a sports fan at all. Even if you aren't and don't want to make a purchase of anything on this page, you can just click the Amazon logo on the right side and it will take you to the Amazon home page and you can buy whatever you are wanting to buy. Take care! http://astore.amazon.com/httpsinternam-20
