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Joe Mauer

Minnesota Twins American League Central1B

Age: 35
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #7

Born: April 19, 1983 in St. Paul, MN, United States
MLB debut: April 5, 2004

dbWAR: 46.3
PA: 543
AVG: .282
OBP: .351
SLG: .379
wRC+: 102

Joe Mauer was a first baseman for the Minnesota Twins. In 2018 he hit 6 home runs and knocked in 48 RBIs, notching 137 hits across 543 plate appearances in 127 games. His batting average was .282, 13.7% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .351 clip and slugged .379, for an OPS of .729, level with the league mark of .728 — 7th of 14 on his team, and 205th of 448 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 91.4 mph off the bat, hit 46.7% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 5.2% of them and made contact on 84.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 102 wRC+ puts his offence 2% above average. That comes to 0.6 dbWAR — +1.6 runs with the bat, -0.0 for the ballpark, -0.8 on the bases, -1.4 on double plays, -8.7 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2018 regular season.

wRC+102

wOBA.322

ISO.097

BB%9.4%

WAR.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2018. These terms sum to +5.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2018; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2018	MIN	127	543	137	6	48	0	51	86	.282	.351	.379	.097	.330	9.4%	15.8%	.322	+1.6	102	0.6
2017	MIN	140	597	160	7	71	2	66	83	.305	.384	.417	.112	.349	11.1%	13.9%	.353	+14.2	116	2.0
2016	MIN	133	576	129	11	49	2	79	93	.261	.363	.389	.128	.301	13.7%	16.1%	.330	+3.8	104	1.2
2015	MIN	157	666	157	10	66	2	67	112	.265	.338	.380	.115	.309	10.1%	16.8%	.314	-1.4	98	0.5
2014	MIN	120	518	126	4	55	3	60	96	.277	.361	.371	.095	.342	11.6%	18.5%	.326	+4.9	105	1.1
2013	MIN	113	508	144	11	47	0	61	89	.324	.404	.476	.153	.383	12.0%	17.5%	.388	+27.4	148	4.7
2012	MIN	147	641	174	10	85	8	90	88	.319	.416	.446	.127	.364	14.0%	13.7%	.380	+30.5	140	4.7
2011	MIN	82	333	85	3	30	0	32	38	.287	.360	.368	.081	.319	9.6%	11.4%	.324	+0.9	104	1.0
2010	MIN	137	584	167	9	75	1	65	53	.327	.402	.469	.141	.348	11.1%	9.1%	.382	+26.1	140	4.9
2009	MIN	138	606	191	28	96	4	76	63	.365	.444	.587	.222	.373	12.5%	10.4%	.444	+54.7	171	7.8
2008	MIN	146	633	176	9	85	1	84	50	.328	.413	.451	.123	.342	13.3%	7.9%	.384	+26.6	139	5.8
2007	MIN	109	471	119	7	60	7	57	51	.293	.382	.426	.133	.319	12.1%	10.8%	.357	+8.5	119	3.1
2006	MIN	140	608	181	13	84	8	79	54	.347	.429	.507	.159	.364	13.0%	8.9%	.401	+33.1	145	5.6
2005	MIN	130	554	144	9	55	13	61	64	.294	.372	.411	.117	.322	11.0%	11.6%	.344	+6.2	109	3.3

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Joe Mauer's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2017 Post	MIN	Wild Card	1	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400
2010 Post	MIN	ALDS	3	13	12	0	3	0	0	1	3	.250	.308	.250	.558
2009 Post	MIN	ALDS	3	14	12	1	5	1	1	2	4	.417	.500	.500	1.000
2006 Post	MIN	ALDS	3	12	11	0	2	0	0	1	0	.182	.250	.182	.432
2005–2018		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	10	44	40	1	11	1	1	4	7	.275	.341	.300	.641

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2018. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	142	130	39	2	10	27	.300	.359	.385	.332	19.0%
vs RHP	401	356	98	4	41	59	.275	.347	.376	.318	14.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 368 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 5.2%
Exit velocity: 91.4
Max exit velo: 107.6
Hard hit: 46.7%
Sweet spot: 41.6%
Launch angle: 5.1°

Barrel rate5.2%

Exit velocity91.4 mph

Hard hit rate46.7%

Contact rate84.9%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .247.

Situational hitting

How Joe Mauer hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	543	—	—	—	—	—	—	.282	.351	.379	.322
Bases empty	348	328	84	2	2	20	53	.256	.299	.335	.282
Runner on first	94	78	20	0	2	13	17	.256	.376	.308	.320
Runners on	195	158	53	4	46	31	33	.335	.443	.468	.395
RISP	101	80	33	4	44	18	16	.412	.505	.625	.467

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2018.

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Nearest 2018 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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HR: 5
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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.