Twins legend Joe Mauer talks spending Hall of Fame career with 1 team

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Joe Mauer entered the Baseball Hall of Fame past twelvemonth with a vocation that’s getting rarer each MLB play arsenic helium spent it each with the Minnesota Twins.

Mauer, who is from St. Paul, Minnesota, and was the No. 1 wide prime of the Twins successful 2001, played each of his 15 MLB seasons with the 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 the caller inductees who person spent clip with 1 squad their full career. Future Hall of Famers similar Shohei Ohtani, Bryce Harper, Justin Verlander, Mookie Betts, Max Scherzer, Manny Machado and galore others won't beryllium capable to accidental the aforesaid thing.

The thought of having loyalty to 1 squad for an full vocation is thing fans person debated since the advent of escaped bureau successful sports.

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

"I grew up present successful Minnesota and rooting connected the Twins. [I] had the imagination of playing successful the large leagues, [and] for maine being successful the presumption successful my draught twelvemonth [and] the Twins having the archetypal wide prime and selecting me, it truly is beauteous brainsick and thing that I americium truthful thankful for.

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

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"But for me, I deliberation a batch of guys would similar to deterioration that 1 azygous for their career, but sometimes it is not up to them. You know, they get traded oregon … things don’t enactment out, oregon it mightiness enactment retired successful a antithetic place. So I’m thankful for the accidental I had successful Minnesota, was arrogant of wearing the Minnesota jersey each time of my vocation and thankful I was capable to bash that for 15 years."

Mauer admitted that helium inactive has to pinch himself a spot aft being inducted into the Hall of Fame.

But helium did lament that determination was 1 happening missing connected his astir cleanable resume: a World Series ring.

"First happening to travel to caput is I would’ve loved to triumph a championship," helium told Fox News Digital. "Obviously, erstwhile I signed with Minnesota and benignant of re-upped with Minnesota, I signed determination with those aspirations. It didn’t enactment out. We ever tried, and I felt bully astir erstwhile I did motion that we had an accidental oregon accidental to win, to triumph the full thing.

"But that is sports. There is lone 1 blessed squad astatine the extremity of the year. You support trying to get amended and get yourself implicit the hump. I was capable to play with immoderate truly bully teams and beryllium a portion of immoderate truly bully teams. I deliberation if thing was missing that it would beryllium that. But obviously, looking backmost [at] the effort that myself and my teammates enactment in, I wouldn’t alteration a thing."