Joe Mauer: Getting Drafted WAY TOO HIGH

I know I'm going to start coming off as a Twins hater, but I just can't believe my eyes when I'm consistantly seeing Joe drafted as early as 23 and 24. When you draft him this HIGH, you're already giving him credit for the 25 homers and 100 rbis POTENTIAL. HE'S NEVER ACTUAL DONES THAT IN A SEASON. In fact he only has 28 career bombs in over a thousand at bats! Anything less than that and you could have had Derrek Lee, Carlos Lee, Andruw Jones, and on and on for 35 homers and 100 runs & rbis. And you can BOOK those guys, barring injury to achieve those numbers.

Joe doesn't even try to hit homeruns. He's a very good contact hitter and would be perfectly happy to work the count to a base on balls.

I don't know what gives. Joe's public relation, clean cut reputation? (which means squat to my fantasy team.) His .347 avg last year? (there arn't too many players in the modern area that have repeated back to back .350 avg seasons)

The fact that this 2nd round draft pick plays catcher and will miss 20 to 30 games a year alone, washes away the position scarcity factor. On a fantasy team that has accumulated 300 homers over the course of the season, a 35 bomb guy will account for 11% of your production, while his 13 bombs last year will account for less than 5%, WHICH YOU WILL NEED to make up elsewhere.