Twins Legend Joe Mauer Talks Spending Hall Of Fame Career With 1 Team

Joe Mauer entered nan Baseball Hall of Fame past twelvemonth pinch a profession that’s getting rarer each MLB play arsenic he spent it each pinch nan Minnesota Twins.

Mauer, who is from St. Paul, Minnesota, and was nan No. 1 wide prime of nan Twins successful 2001, played each of his 15 MLB seasons pinch nan organization. He was a one-time American League MVP, deed 143 location runs, batted .306 and was an All-Star six times.

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Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer (Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY Sports)

Todd Helton, Tony Oliva, Derek Jeter, Edgar Martinez, Mariano Rivera, Alan Trammel and Chipper Jones were among nan caller inductees who person spent clip pinch 1 squad their full career. Future Hall of Famers for illustration Shohei Ohtani, Bryce Harper, Justin Verlander, Mookie Betts, Max Scherzer, Manny Machado and galore others won't beryllium capable to opportunity nan aforesaid thing.

The thought of having loyalty to 1 squad for an full profession is thing fans person debated since nan advent of free agency successful sports.

Mauer told Fox News Digital it "meant a lot" to him to beryllium capable to play pinch 1 squad – fundamentally his hometown squad – for his full career.

"I grew up present successful Minnesota and rooting connected nan Twins. [I] had nan dream of playing successful nan large leagues, [and] for maine being successful nan position successful my draught twelvemonth [and] nan Twins having nan first wide prime and selecting me, it really is beautiful crazy and thing that I americium truthful thankful for.

Minnesota Twins first baseman Joe Mauer (Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports)

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"But for me, I deliberation a batch of guys would for illustration to deterioration that 1 azygous for their career, but sometimes it is not up to them. You know, they get traded aliases … things don’t activity out, aliases it mightiness activity retired successful a different place. So I’m thankful for nan opportunity I had successful Minnesota, was proud of wearing nan Minnesota jersey each time of my profession and thankful I was capable to do that for 15 years."

Mauer admitted that he still has to pinch himself a spot aft being inducted into nan Hall of Fame.

But he did lament that location was 1 point missing connected his astir cleanable resume: a World Series ring.

"First point to travel to mind is I would’ve loved to triumph a championship," he told Fox News Digital. "Obviously, erstwhile I signed pinch Minnesota and benignant of re-upped pinch Minnesota, I signed location pinch those aspirations. It didn’t activity out. We ever tried, and I felt bully astir erstwhile I did motion that we had an opportunity aliases chance to win, to triumph nan full thing. 

"But that is sports. There is only 1 happy squad astatine nan extremity of nan year. You support trying to get amended and get yourself complete nan hump. I was capable to play pinch immoderate really bully teams and beryllium a portion of immoderate really bully teams. I deliberation if thing was missing that it would beryllium that. But obviously, looking backmost [at] nan effort that myself and my teammates put in, I wouldn’t alteration a thing."

Joe Mauer (Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports)

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Mauer is group to compete successful nan American Century Championship play tourney adjacent period astatine Edgewood Tahoe Golf Club.

Fox News' Connor McGahan contributed to this report.

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