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Dustin Pedroia has played the first two years of his remarkable career in a Boston Red Sox jersey. In 2007, he won the Rookie of the Year Award and snagged a World Series ring. Then in 2008, he won the American League Most Valuable Player Award. Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft, he has signed a $40.5MM contract that can keep him with the Sox through 2015. Pretty nice work for a 25-year-old.

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Pedroia grew up in Woodland, California, where his family owns a tire store. He played shortstop at Arizona State University and both shortstop and second base in the minors. He went on to spend the next couple of years in the Red Sox minor league system.

He got a hit in the first Major League game that he played, in August, 2006, and got his first Major League home run less than a month later. He wore Red Sox jersey number 64 that year, but his number changed to his current number, 15, in 2007.

Although Pedroia made his MLB debut in 2006, he was still a rookie in 2007. That’s because he had not had 130 at-bats or 45 days on a Major League roster before September 1. He chalked up a .990 fielding percentage in his rookie year. Early in the season, his pitching was uneven. A 13-game hitting streak and a five-hit game helped him to regain his stability at the plate. He earned the American League Player of the Week Award the first week of June and the American League Rookie of the Month Award for May. He went on to win the Rookie of the Year Award for 2007. He finished the season with a .317 batting average, eight home runs and 50 runs batted in.

The guys in the Boston Red Sox jersey went on to the post-season in 2007, defeating the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the ALDS and the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS. They met the Colorado Rockies in the World Series. Pedroia made history when he hit a home run in the first at-bat of a World Series, the second player and the first rookie to lead of the World Series with a home run. Pedroia made World Series history again in Game 3, when he and center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury, also a rookie, became the first two rookies to bat 1 and 2 in a World Series game.

The guys in the Red Sox jersey beat the Rockies in four games.

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The 2008 season saw Pedroia the Destroyah make a sterling contribution all across the board. His hitting was excellent. His .326 batting average was second in the American League. He led the American League in doubles and runs scored and tied for the Major League lead in total hits. He had the highest stolen base percentage in the Major League, safely stealing 20 bases in 21 attempts for a .952 stolen base percentage. And his fielding was world-class. His fielding percentage of .992 was second for a second baseman only to Oakland Athletics’ Mark Ellis, whose .993 fielding percentage was earned with approximately 200 fewer attempts.

His entire record in the regular season earned him not only the American League Most Valuable Player Award, but also the Gold Glove and Silver Slugger Awards. He was also selected for the 2008 All-Star Team. Although the Red Sox defeated the Los Angeles Angels in the American League Division Series, Pedroia’s contribution was not great in that series. The guys in the Boston Red Sox jerseys proceeded to confront the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League Championship Series, where Pedroia’s performance was spectacular. One-third of the nine hits that he snagged in his 26 at-bats were home runs. But finally, the Rays won the series and it was they, not the Red Sox, who played in the 2008 World Series.

Dustin Pedroia is not a large man. His height is listed at 5’9” on the MLB site, but that seems to be a statistic that deserves an asterisk. He may not be much bigger than 5’6”. But he has made a huge contribution to the team that he may play with until 2015. He may be short in the eyes of the rest of the world. But he’s ten feet tall to Red Sox Nation.