| Dustin Pedroia | |||||||||||||||
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 Pedroia with the Boston Red Sox in 2008 | |||||||||||||||
| Second baseman | |||||||||||||||
| Born: August 17, 1983 Woodland, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
| August 22, 2006, for the Boston Red Sox | |||||||||||||||
| Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||
| April 17, 2019, for the Boston Red Sox | |||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .299 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 140 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 725 | ||||||||||||||
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Dustin Luis Pedroia (born August 17, 1983) is an American former professional baseball second baseman who played his entire Major League Baseball career for the Boston Red Sox, from 2006 to 2019. He was a four-time All-Star, and won the American League (AL) Rookie of the Year Award in 2007 and the AL Most Valuable Player and Silver Slugger Award in 2008. He has also received four Gold Glove Awards and was named AL Defensive Player of the Year in 2013.
Pedroia was selected by the Red Sox in the 2004 MLB draft and made his major league debut in 2006. He became a full-time player in 2007, winning the AL Rookie of the Year Award. He was a member of the Red Sox World Series championship teams in 2007 and 2013. Pedroia was the last player from the 2007 World Series team to leave the club.[1] A knee injury late in the 2017 season marked the end of his effective play.[2] After playing in only nine major league games over the 2018 and 2019 seasons, including missing the 2018 postseason,[2] he also missed all of the shortened 2020 season.[3] He announced his retirement on February 1, 2021.[3]
Pedroia was a proficient contact hitter with a very low strikeout rate and "a surprising amount of power," whose defense at second base has been rated significantly above-average.[4][5] Pedroia was the first Red Sox infielder to win four Gold Gloves.[6][7][8]
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