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Mauer, Twins agree to contract
TheStar.com - Sports February 11, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Minnesota Twins catcher and AL batting champion Joe Mauer avoided salary arbitration and agreed to a four-year contract on Sunday with the Twins.
Mauer, 23, batted .347 with 84 RBIs in 2006 to help the Twins rally from a 12 1/2-game deficit to win the AL Central on the final day of the regular season.
Mauer, the first pick in the 2001 draft out of Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, Minn., was eligible for arbitration this winter for the first time.
Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed.
The deal will keep Mauer with the Twins through at least 2010, the year the team is scheduled to begin playing in a new ballpark.
Posted : February 11, 2007 2:31 pm