Mauer Looking Towards 2012
Although Joe Mauer has been gone for much of the Twins season this year, due to a number of injuries and illnesses the latest of which being pneumonia, some people still feel that Mauer is at fault for the Twins horrible season. Mauer has surely heard many of this talk around Minnesota and had this to say on it, “Guys throw their own two cents on it, but like I said, this is what I have. I have pneumonia, and I’ve got to deal with it. Just got to take care of it.”
“I tried playing through it, and it turned into this,” Mauer said. “I was just advised by everybody that this isn’t the right direction that we’re supposed to go. Obviously I was frustrated with it, and obviously I wanted to finish this season playing, but I just wasn’t able to.” For Twins fans it is easy to say that Mauer should of made a return earlier on in the year coming off of a bilateral leg injury to help turn the Twins season around. But surely Mauer has gotten past his recent troubles and is looking forward to next season.
Now although Mauer has said that he will return next season there is speculation that his condition is worse than what is being advertised. It is not often that an athlete will make a visit to the Mayo Clinic, which is one of the most highly regarded medical clinics in the world. But Mauer has said that he believes the diagnosis of pneumonia is all that is ailing him. “That’s what Mayo does. They check everything, and that’s what they came up with,” Mauer said. “I trust the doctors and am doing everything they told me to do.”
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