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Chapter 1: What is Dustin Pedroia's current status on the Hall of Fame ballot?
look at like what you I voted for you I told you I would I'm a man of my word I was one of 47 yeah but but to give you context where you are at now was around the where Billy Wagner was and Billy Wagner got in right he got in What was your takeaway after – because when we talked last year, it was still during the voting process.
What was your takeaway after going through that whole thing, after people saying nice things about you, after being able to get those amount of votes? What was your – because you had never been through that before.
No, yeah.
What was your takeaway from it?
Oh, I was honored. I mean, listen, Rob, I think you know me more than anybody. I'm – like baseball means the world to me. Like I played as hard as I possibly could. I never took a playoff. That's the only thing I'm proud of. Like in my career, I didn't take one playoff, man. Like one pitch. I, I dove for every ball. Now that's probably why I, when I wake up, I hurt, but like, I'm proud of that.
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Chapter 2: How did Dustin Pedroia feel about the voting process last year?
So any, any, I mean, one vote, I am extremely grateful. Um, Obviously, I'm a fan of baseball. I love baseball. It's been my life. I'm honored to be on the ballot, to have the career I had, to be able to win like we did. It's pretty special. You see the names on the ballot every year and you're like, holy cow, man, my name's next to those guys. I'm just grateful to be there and
You know, see what happens.
Your name is not only next to them, it'll be next to them again because, honestly, Dustin, there's a new class obviously comes in every year. I don't know if anybody is going to make it to round two from this class. All really, really good players, but I think this is another example of why you earned this respect. And I think that when you talk about not taking a playoff, this is earmuffs.
If you want, I'm going to build you up. Okay. All right. But you know, I can go through all the stats and all the figures and everything else. And honestly, your case kind of led me to voting for chase Utley too. Like, honestly, like I don't, I didn't think I would, but, but completely different cases, but you know, there was a, something to value for defense, uh,
But my case for you, besides the numbers, is that when I say that is how I want baseball players to play, that is what I want to represent a baseball player, it is Dustin Pedroia. That's it.
Well, thank you. That's the highest compliment for me. I appreciate that, Rob. Listen, I'm not you. 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. So, no, I appreciate that, Rob. That means the world.
You know, I also wanted to see a Hall of Fame speech.
Oh, yeah, it'd be legendary, wouldn't it? It would.
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Chapter 3: What does Dustin Pedroia think about his career and its impact on his Hall of Fame candidacy?
Now. We talked about this last year, and that was the part that I was like, man, I don't really understand how this works. You're like, oh, if you played two more years healthy, you'd be a first ballot. And I'm like, wait a minute. If I hit 280 with 170 hits and 30 doubles and 15 home runs for two more years, I'd be a Hall of Famer? Yeah, I don't understand.
Like, so I don't that's the part I don't I don't listen. I got hurt and my career just abruptly stopped, which that part is always going to be hard to deal with. Like, I think about it every day, probably 10 times a day. But, you know, that that was the thing I was like, dang, if that's the case, that sucks. Like, it already sucks that my career got ruined.
ruined or, you know, stop short, not ruined, stop short. But I'm like, dang, if that costs me that, that is, that's awful. But you know me, I'm a positive person. Like everything's fine. Working on my golf game. You know what I mean? What's your handicap now? Oh, dude. See, that's the thing with the handicap situation. Like I will say this six weeks ago, I shot a 67 and I was on fire.
You're kidding me. Are you kidding? Like, you haven't even golfed that long, have you? It's been since 2017.
Wow.
But the hole looked like, I mean, dude, I'm telling you, it looked like the Grand Canyon. I was draining everything. My problem was I couldn't putt well. Like, I always, let's be honest. I'll hit it close to the pin. I'll get it up there. And then now I'm starting to putt a little bit, Rob. Heads up.
heads up hey next year now right now i'm a i'm a one handicap i'm playing golf wow yeah and it is it is smoke and mirrors though let me tell you if i hit it in the desert i'm gonna get out with my rock club you know what i mean i'll put it tight like like scramble ability a plus that's my game willing myself to put the ball in the hole that's my game as well it ain't gonna look good it's kind of like my baseball game it's not gonna look good
It's not going to look good. But at the end of the day, you look at the box score, and you're like, damn, that guy had two hits. I remember making two diving plays. He stole a base. That's my golf game.
Man, that up and down from the rough.
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Chapter 4: What are the statistics that support Dustin Pedroia's Hall of Fame case?
He did. That's how it is. Do you talk trash on the golf course? Um... Yes. Okay. I do. All right. I do. I do. I do. It depends on who I'm talking to. Like, I know my limitations. Like, you know what I mean? Like, CeCe Sabathia is on the mound. I'm not walking up there telling CeCe I'm going to light him up. You know what I mean? Like, hey, we know our limits here.
I'm going to try to shoot a ball the other way and pray. You know what I mean? So, you know, if we got 88 with a little wrinkle in there, I'm going to talk trash, Rob.
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You know what I mean? I had Beckett on the other day, and we remember, I don't know if he ever used this term with you, the Sputinator. You ever heard about the Sputinator? I haven't. Oh, you haven't? Oh, that's great. I don't play a lot of golf, but I played with him once in Fort Myers, and he's like, oh, you got Sputinator. He's like, what's a Sputinator?
He's like, it's the muscle that connects your heart and your balls. Yeah, that's him. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, next year, so they did this thing at MLB, at the GM meetings, the MLB Open at Shadow Creek, which I didn't realize. You've never played there, right?
No, I haven't.
You can't afford to play there.
I can't. I don't have enough money for that. But Andre Ethier played in it, and I got to text him to see how he did. Did you know how he did?
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