Who will Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia be in 2019?

Dustin Pedroia will return to the baseball field this season, but will he be the same player we’ve grown to love over this past decade?

I, like all of Red Sox Nation, was captivated by the meteoric rise of a short, gritty second baseman named Dustin Pedroia in the summer of 2007. I was a ten-year-old playing little league baseball at the time. I too was a small statured second baseman and that connection was enough to make Pedroia somewhat of an idol to me growing up. He seemingly willed himself to be a star. He consistently gave an all-out effort on every play of every game with complete disregard for his body. This quality, along with his consistently stellar level of play, has made…