326 with 17 homers and 83 RBIs while leading the league with 118 runs, 213 hits and 54 doubles. The next year, Pedroia was the AL MVP after hitting. 317 with 39 doubles, eight homers and 50 RBIs.ĭespite hitting a home run that year in his first World Series at-bat, he was went unrecognized when the Series shifted to Denver and told the Coors Field security guard: “I’m the guy who took Jeff Francis onto the Mass Pike. He just has that type of personality.”Īt 5-foot-9 - to be generous - and 170 pounds, Pedroia was small in stature but he burst into the majors as the AL Rookie of the Year in 2007, when he 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.
2007 boston red sox roster full#
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.
And this is the time.”Ī four-time All-Star and four-time Gold Glove winner, Pedroia batted. “I never took one play off, from Little League on,” Pedroia said on a videoconference with reporters on Monday after acknowledging he would not be able to return, despite six surgeries that included a pandemic-delayed partial knee replacement in December.
0 kommentar(er)
