One of the most beloved players of the last era not just in the Boston Red Sox, but throughout MLB, Dustin Pedroia, ended his career after a few years struggling with a chronic knee injury, in which he had to have partial reconstructive surgery and so far cannot run or play baseball, although it can lead a normal life off the field.
After the news of his retirement was announced, the media and fans in general remembered that blow that Manny Machado gave him at second base in 2017, when he was still playing for the Baltimore Orioles, which determined Pedroia to see his season limited to only 105 games and underwent surgery at the end of that season.
However, Machado’s sweep of Pedroia was simply “the straw that broke his camel’s back” for his knee, as at the end of the 2016 season, Pedroia underwent surgery on his left knee meniscus and a reconstruction. of cartilage.
During 2017, Dustin suffered knee problems, moving to the list of people with disabilities three times for the same cause, the last being caused by the sweep of Manny Machado, from which he could never recover, after trying to returns in the next three seasons without any success.
Pedroia himself has no grudge against Machado, nor does he consider that the Dominican has “ended his career”, as in his virtual press conference he mentioned that what happened to him could happen to anyone and simply it was simply a piece of baseball that had bad consequences. .