Boston’s best people and ideas of 2011
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Adrian Gonzalez
In a season punctuated by the failures of the Red Sox’s off-season additions, Gonzalez prevailed. There were slight stumbles, sure – Gonzalez started off the second half two for 24 and hit only one homer between July 8 and August 22. But he said the right things along the way and finished the season with 117 runs batted in (third-highest in the American League) and a .338 average (the team’s best since Manny Ramirez hit .349 nearly a decade ago). All of this earned him enough good will to land him the highest of Sox honors: a Dunkin’ Donuts commercial.
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