FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The first thing you need to know about Dustin Pedroia's left knee is that it will never be 100 percent again.
"It ain't even my knee. It's somebody else's, bro," the Red Sox second baseman said Friday, speaking with the media from spring training camp, where he had arrived early to begin his comeback after missing all but three games in 2018.
Pedroia had surgery on the knee after the 2017 season, a procedure known as cartilage restoration that involved grafting cartilage from a cadaver. Pedroia returned on schedule in late May, but he shut it down after just three games, going 1-for-11, and didn't play again.