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Nice to see Pedroia get the award. He deserved it and was a major player for the Red Sox this season.

24 out of the 28 first place votes.


Link is on the wiretap.

I think you're looking at a player who will be among the 2 or so greatest 2B to ever play for the Red Sox if he plays here his whole career.

Bleeding Green wrote:I think you're looking at a player who will be among the 2 or so greatest 2B to ever play for the Red Sox if he plays here his whole career.

That's not really saying much though. There's Doerr and...Doerr. And even Doerr wasn't all that great.

truth be told... i'm a little disappointed we ONLY had 3 of the top 4 AL rookie of the year votes (dice-k and oki were there too). what AL voters? was jacoby not good enough for you? what more do you want from the kid????

Jeff Frye was ridiculous.

But yeah, I was just looking over the 2Bs from past years and there really hasn't be anyone who has played 2B over even a 3-year stretch and been above average.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/pos.shtml

Doerr was pretty great--115 OPS+ over 8000+ plate appearances. Robby Alomar finished with a 116 OPS+.

I don't know if Pedroia has 8000 plate appearances in him.

But Doerr only had a career adjusted EqA of .282 to Alomar

I see Pedroia as basically infallible.

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/diamond ... ookie.html

Book it

i am going to hit 300 even after the horrible start i'm having right now

you taught me how to deal with this

1 for my last 26 no biggie

an explosion is going to happen soon

fdefore wrote:truth be told... i'm a little disappointed we ONLY had 3 of the top 4 AL rookie of the year votes (dice-k and oki were there too). what AL voters? was jacoby not good enough for you? what more do you want from the kid????

would have helped if he was eligible