After years of either poorly drafting (See: Jed Lowrie), trading away franchise shortstops (See: Nomar Garciaparra) and future franchise shortstops (See: Hanley Ramirez) it appears as the Red Sox have floated the idea of moving All Star Dustin Pedroia to shortstop.
Pedroia stated that he was all for the idea and was hoping that Terry Francona would ask him. He also stated that Derek Jeter should “watch out for his Gold Glove and his Silver Slugger.” While he appeared to be joking, one has to wonder how serious he really was with his comment.
Remember how all those experts with the ‘fielding stats’ said that Derek was one of the worst shortstops ever? What happened? He turned around and had a stellar season in the field. One has to wonder how serious Derek takes this faux threat and how much he will push to prove that he is still the offensive force that he is, even at the advanced age of 35 (36 in June 2010).
Regardless, I look forward to a response from Jeter on the field, because we know Jeter will just laugh it off in the media and not take a shot at Pedroia like Pedroia did.
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To be fair that Nomar trade was a brilliant move by Theo.
Big words from a little man if you ask me. It will be interesting to watch the transition if that’s what the Sox opt to do.
You’re absolutely right about the return on the trade, however I wasn’t shooting for that, unfortunately.
Pedodroia’s a punk, a typical red sox douchebag. He can go fuck himself. Still wondering why I got banned from the ESPN message board 3 times? ;)