Stat of the day

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Dustin Pedroia is one of only eight players in baseball history to have won the Rookie Of the Year award, the AL MVP award, a Gold Glove and a World Series.

The seven players who preceded him in this impressive feat did it over the course of their careers. Pedroia's done that in just two seasons.

The Sox' second baseman has had such incredible success at such a young age that I almost fear for him, but the Great Gretzky, who was by far the best hockey player in the western hemisphere at age nineteen, was able to sustain his eminence over a long career, so it's not unprecedented.