Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia has retired from Major League Baseball after fourteen seasons. Earlier this offseason, Alex Gordon announced his retirement after fourteen years in the big leagues as well.
Two-time World Series Champion and former AL MVP Dustin Pedroia has officially retired, the Red Sox announced.
Pedroia played all 14 years in the league with Boston. pic.twitter.com/9WIEiaelkO
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Pedroia’s long-time tenure in Boston leaves him with a solid resume as one of the organization’s main pieces of the mid-2000s and on. Pedroia did not play in 2020 and had been dealing with a knee injury since the 2019 season, which prompted him to hang things up. He is 37 years old and collected a nice list of accolades; take a further look at those!
Pedroia was a four-time all-star, four-time Gold Glove winner, and two-time World Series, winner. He also took home a Rookie of the Year award in 2007 as well as the Most Valuable Player award in 2008. Pedroia also had a Silver Slugger award mixed in during the 2008 season.
In his last two years, Pedroia only strung together 9 games played, going just 3-for-31 over the course of these injury-ridden days. The long haul is the focal point for Pedroia; his end of the season was sour. Pedroia logged 1,512 games where he had 1,805 hits, being a career .299/.365/.439 hitter.
Congratulations to Dustin Pedroia on his fabulous 14-year career with the Boston Red Sox organization.
