Pedroia made 11 consecutive opening day starts for the Red Sox, second in franchise history only to Carl Yastrzemski. I’m happy, thankful, grateful and proud that I was able to have a teammate like him because he was a guy who motivated me to do well.” “The one thing I learned for sure was that this was not about size.
“I got to the point where I worried so much about him, the way he hustled, the way he played hard, his discipline,” Ortiz said. “He played with a little chip on his shoulder.” “I asked myself one day, ‘Who would be a player that you would buy a ticket to see, because it was worth it to watch him play for nine innings?’ And my answer was Dustin Pedroia," longtime Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz said.
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He is the only player ever to earn Rookie of the Year, Gold Glove and MVP awards along with a World Series championship in his first two full seasons only nine other players have accomplished those feats in their entire career. 299 with 140 homers and 725 RBIs in a 17-year career, all with the Red Sox. He just has that type of personality.”Ī four-time All-Star and four-time Gold Glove winner, Pedroia batted. It is impossible to spend any amount of time with him and not become close to him. He seemed to will himself at times to lead us to victory. “He always seemed to save his very best plays for the most important time of the game.
“He was the ultimate team player,” said Terry Francona, the current Cleveland manager and Pedroia’s manager and cribbage opponent for six seasons. He was the longest-tenured player on the Red Sox roster and the only holdover from the 2007 championship team. Pedroia, 37, was the AL Rookie of the Year in 2007 and the MVP in his second season but played in a total of nine games in the last three years because of the 2017 injury from a spikes-high slide by then-Orioles shortstop Manny Machado.
(Winslow Townson/AP) This article is more than 2 years old.ĭustin Pedroia, the undersized and over-achieving second baseman who spurred the Boston Red Sox to a pair of World Series victories with his grit and another, after a knee injury effective ended his career, with his mouth, has retired. Pedroia, who was the 2007 Rookie of the Year and the AL MVP in his second season, retired Monday. In this June 13, 2015, file photo, Boston Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia watches a hit against the Toronto Blue Jays during the 10th inning of a game at Fenway Park.
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