Mauer’s agent to meet with Twins
March 4, 2010
Joe Mauer’s agent, Ron Shapiro, arrived to the Twins spring training camp on Wednesday night. While Shapiro usually makes the trip down to Fort Myers every spring, this visit may be more than that as an agreement between the Twins and Mauer on a contract extension has not been finalized.
It is expected that Shapiro and the Twins management will hold a face-to-face meeting to talk about a contract extension for Mauer. The two sides have been in negotiations over the phone for several weeks, but the talks will more than likely heat up with the personal meeting. Mauer stated during TwinsFest that he does not want the contract situation to be a distraction during the 2010 season.
In other Mauer news, the one BBWAA voter that did not give Mauer first place on his AL MVP ballot has come clean as to why he did it. Keizo Konishi, the baseball writer for the Kyodo News in Seattle, stated that the MVP should be decided between the Tigers and Twins as they went down to the wire. Konishi then picked out who was most important to their team. In doing so, he came to the conclusion that the Tigers would be greatly different without Miguel Cabrera and the Twins would still be better than the Tigers without Mauer.
Konishi can say what he wants, but we here at Twins Digest are sticking to our initial thought that he voted against Mauer as he beat Ichiro Suzuki for the batting title for a second consecutive year.
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