Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer was the near-unanimous winner of the A.L. MVP Award today, earning 27 of the 28 first place votes. Detroit's Miguel Cabrera got the other first place vote (why?!?), and finished fourth in the overall voting, behind Mauer and New York's Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter.
Mauer finished the season with a league-high .365 avg, the highest ever by a catcher. He also had league-highs in OBP at .444 and slugging at .587, the first player to lead the league in all three categories since George Brett in 1980. He is just the second catcher in the last 33 years to win the award (Texas' Ivan Rodriguez in 1999), and fifth Twins player overall.
The overall numbers Mauer put up were unprecedented by a catcher since Mike Piazza's 1997 season with the Dodgers .
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