Pedroia Will Have Surgery on Left Hand

Winslow Townson/Getty Images(BOSTON) — Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia will have surgery on his left hand.

Pedroia has been dealing with the injury most of the season.

“Yeah he’s going to have a procedure done here tomorrow by Dr. (Matthew) Leibman in Boston that will address what he’s dealing with right now,” Red Sox skipper John Farrell said Wednesday. “I don’t know any more specifics than that, but there will certainly be a followup after that’s completed tomorrow.”

The 31-year-old Pedroia, who is known for playing an aggressive style of baseball, will now have had some type of hand surgery for three consecutive seasons.

Despite Pedroia’s style, Farrell says he isn’t going to try and convince the former American League MVP to change much about his game.

“Well we’ve asked him not to slide head first anymore, which he’s doing, which, you go back to Opening Day in 2013, that’s where a lot of this has originated,” Farrell said. “He’s aggravated the left hand again by being taken out at second base on a double play earlier in the year and then mid-year. We’re really not going to ask him to change his approach, with the exception of the deciding to slide head first. Dustin plays the game as he’s wired, and that’s what makes him the great player that he is.”

Pedroia hit .278 with seven home runs, 72 runs scored, 53 RBIs, and a .337 on-base percentage this season.