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Originally Posted by pilight
Mauer was only a full time catcher (catching more than half his team's games) for six years, ending in 2010. It's disingenuous at best to act as if he spent his whole career as a catcher.
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A.) He caught a significant amount of games during 9 seasons (arbitrarily throwing out years with 70+ starts is pretty misleading, particularly because it had to do with injury).
B.) Nobody is saying his career has been as a "full-time catcher". Everyone is fully admitting he moved off of the position...in fact WAR (the stat getting attacked) absolutely accounts for that as almost all of the WAR he accumulated was during the seasons he was catching.
What is ridiculous is calling him "not a catcher".