Dustin Pedroia

Dustin Pedroia: Biography in Details

Who is Dustin Pedroia?

American Dustin Pedroia is the Most Valuable Player award-winning baseball second baseman. Currently, he is playing for the professional baseball team, Boston Red Sox. 

He is also Gold Glove Awards and Silver Slugger award winner.

Who are the parents of Dustin Pedroia?

Dustin Pedroia was born Dustin Luis Pedroia on the 17th of August 1983 in Woodland, California. He is of Swiss-Italian-Portuguese ancestry. His family has a tire business that ran 14 hours a day.

His elder brother, Brett played baseball for Shasta College as a catcher. However, Brett’s career ended with the tragic story that, he snipped his ankle in Juco Game.

Education & Early Career

Dustin Pedroia attended Arizona State University. Prior to that, he graduated from Woodland High School. At the college, he played for the college’s baseball team, Arizona State Sun Devils baseball.

Some of his teammates on the team include baseball personalities like Ian Kinsler and Andre Ethie.

While playing on the college baseball team, he was named the most valued player.

Dustin Pedroia- Professional Career

Minor Leagues

– After college, Dustin Pedroia started his professional career in 2004 as a rookie for Boston Red Sox. At the time, his signing amount was $575k. He debuted through the second-round 2004 Major League Baseball draft.

– At the same, he played minor league, Augusta GreenJackets as a Class A player. In the following year, he played the minor league, Portland Sea Dogs as a Double-A player. Later, in 2006, he played Pawtucket Red Sox as a Triple-A player.

Major Leagues

Soon after his successful career, he started playing Major Leagues for the Boston Red Sox. In 2006, he called to play in major leagues for the team. In 2007, he started playing as a second baseball player replacing Mark Loretta.

Due to his imaginary performance, he won the Rookie of the Year award. In 2008 also, he continued his phenomenal performance. In the year, he remained hitless for the first three games of the 2008 ALDS.

Following the year, Dustin Pedroia extended his contract with the baseball club worth $40.5 million. In the year, he was selected for the All-Star Team.

However, he withdrew from the game as his wife was expecting their first child. Also, he missed the regular season of the year.

After the season, he played against the Rockies. In the game, he broke his foot and he was placed on the 15-day disabled list. He was not allowed to put any sort of weight on the foot for two weeks.

Despite that, he continued practicing. Due to the injury, he didn’t participate 2010 AL All-Star team.

In 2011, Dustin Pedroia continued his performance with the batting .307 and 21 home runs.

In the following season, he broke his left finger yet continued playing the season’s ending at Yankee Stadium.

On the 23rd of June 2013, Dustin Pedroia extended his contract with the team for 8 years worth around $110 million. The same year, he went through a thumb surgery.

Will Dustin Stop Playing?

On the 27th of May 2019, he announced that he would be taking a certain time for his future evaluation. He answered that he is not sure that he will be playing ever again. He made the announcement due to his knee problem that first took place in 2017.

In 2017, Dustin Pedroia was placed on the disabled list for his left knee sore for 10 days. Later, they resume playing. However, he was again placed on the disabled list for three months.

Later on the 25th of October, he underwent Knee surgery for complete cartilage restoration. Due to that, he missed his starting 2018 season.

After the surgery, he is most of the time he is placed on the disabled list including 60 days on the 27th of August.

On the 7th of March 2019, he made a debut in spinning training. At the beginning of the year, he was on the injured list. On the 4th of April 2019, he was sent to minor leagues as a rehabilitation assignment.

For the minor league, Greenville Drive he played three games. He restarted his rehabilitation training as Triple-A in Pawtucket. He was again removed from Portland’s game due to his left knee soreness.

Most Boston Red Sox fans are wondering what will the club do without the player. Also, they are wondering if will he return in the current season.

 Dustin’s Awards

2008- American League All-Star, Silver Slugger Award, Most Valuable Player Awards.

2011- Fielding Bible Award, Gold Glove.

2013- Wilson Overall Defensive Player of the Year Award in American League.

2016- Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award.

What is Dustin Pedroia’s net worth?

Dustin Pedroia has an estimated net worth of $45 million. His current salary as a player of the Boston Red Sox is in the range of $13.75 million which includes the singing amount of $1 million.

Before the year, his yearly earnings were in the range of $72.1 million which included a $15million base salary, a $125k signing bonus, and $13.75 million Luxury Tax Salary, and $13.125 million as payroll salary.

Contracts

Currently, the player is under an 8-year contract with the Red Sox with worth $110 million.

Pedroia’s Height, Weight

He is a brown-eyed brunette. His height is 5 feet and 7 inches. However, In the official list of  Red Sox officially his height is 5 feet and 9 inches.

Dustin Pedroia’s Controversy

During the interview with Boston Magazine, he called his hometown Woodland a dump city. For the statement, he was backlashed.

Also, his parents received a death threat for the statement.

Later, Dustin Pedroia corrected the statement by saying that he was just joking.

Dustin Pedroia- Twitter

He is active on Twitter with the handle @Lasershow_DP15.

Dustin Pedroia has 1.4k followers on his Twitter account.

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