Hall of Famer Joe Mauer praises MLB for the ABS challenge system, says it's been good for the game

Minnesota Twins fable Joe Mauer is simply a instrumentality of Major League Baseball’s ABS system.

Mauer, 43, said the extremity is to get each telephone right, and ABS has helped successful that regard.

"I really truly similar it. I deliberation the exertion has gotten to a constituent wherever the challenges are beauteous speedy and resolved beauteous quickly. And I deliberation that's the extremity for everybody is to get the telephone right. At the extremity of the day, I deliberation it's been a bully thing," Mauer told Fox News Digital.

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Minnesota Twins subordinate Joe Mauer salutes the assemblage during his fig status ceremonial astatine Target Field successful Minneapolis, Minn., connected June 15, 2019, earlier a crippled against the Kansas City Royals. (David Berding/USA TODAY Sports)

The ABS strategy is 1 of the latest things Major League Baseball has introduced to assistance amended the game, and Mauer commended the league for introducing ABS.

"I deliberation that's what Major League Baseball and what we're trying to bash is support trying to marque the crippled better. I deliberation this is 1 of those rules, (that) I deliberation that has helped that," Mauer said.

Mauer, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame successful 2024, was a catcher and a archetypal baseman for the Twins. The St. Paul, Minnesota, autochthonal starred connected some sides of the shot and surely would person utilized the ABS strategy to his advantage.

Mauer spent his full 15-year vocation with the Twins and had a vocation .306 batting mean with 143 location runs and 923 RBIs.

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Joe Mauer salutes fans during a pregame ceremonial earlier the Minnesota Twins faced the Arizona Diamondbacks astatine Target Field successful Minneapolis connected Aug. 5, 2023. (Bruce Kluckhohn/USA TODAY Sports)

Upon his status successful 2018, helium began playing successful the American Century Championship. Mauer volition play successful this year’s tournament, which takes spot July 10-12 astatine Edgewood Golf Course successful Lake Tahoe.

The tourney has raised much than $8 cardinal for determination and nationalist charities. American Century Investments donates 40% of its profits to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and activates fundraising astatine the tourney to thrust nonstop donations to Stowers each year.

Mauer said that his play crippled isn’t successful large signifier astatine the moment, but that doesn’t substance erstwhile helium attends the American Century Championship.

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Hall of Famer Joe Mauer waves to the assemblage arsenic helium arrives astatine the National Baseball Hall of Fame during the Parade of Legends successful Cooperstown, N.Y., connected July 26, 2025. (Gregory Fisher/Imagn Images)

"I deliberation American Century does a large occupation of getting bully radical to travel retired determination and beryllium a portion of the tourney and it's a batch of bully play too. They marque you consciousness similar you're connected the circuit for 1 week," Mauer said.

The tourney volition beryllium broadcast connected NBC and Peacock.

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