Dustin Pedroia

Um,

you know, obviously I'm, I'm a fan of baseball.

I love baseball.

Um, it's been my life.

Um, so I'm, I'm just, I'm honored to, to be on the ballot, to have the career I had to be able to win, uh, like we did.

Um, you know, it's, it's pretty special.

You see the names on, on, on the ballot every year and you're like, holy cow, man, my name's next to those guys.

So, um, I'm just, I'm just grateful, um, you know, to be there and, and,

You know, see what happens.

Well, thank you.

That's the highest compliment for me.

I appreciate that, Rob.

Listen, if I walk down the street, no one would know who the hell I am.

So you saying that, that's the ultimate for me.

I wanted to make sure that I earned the respect from my teammates, the opposing players, the opposing manager, everybody.

My job every day was to show up and I got to prove something to somebody.

And I think that's just probably because I grew up and I'm smaller.

I was never given...

You know, the expectations on me as a young kid were always not very high and mentally I wanted to belong.

So I think that that obviously helped me in my life.