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‘He played with a little chip on his shoulder’: Dustin Pedroia’s former teammates, managers react to his retirement

Dustin Pedroia’s former Red Sox teammates and managers are lining up to congratulate him following his retirement announcement on Monday.

Here’s what they said:

David Ortiz

“I can say so much about Dustin,” Ortiz said in a statement released by the Red Sox. “It got to the point while I played that I asked myself one day, who would be a player that you would buy a ticket to see, because it was worth it to watch him play for nine innings. And my answer was Dustin Pedroia. He played with a little chip on his shoulder.