Dustin Pedroia named American League MVP
Dustin Pedroia, the hard-nosed second baseman for the Boston Red Sox, has been named the American League MVP after collecting 16 of the 28f first-place votes from the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Dustin Pedroia will miss the rest of the World Baseball Classic because of a strained muscle on his left side, but the injury isn't considered serious.