Bio

2010 Highlights:
Tallied 6th career 30-homer, 100-RBI campaign, tying Manny Ramirez for 2nd most in club history...Named to 6th American League All-Star team. Led the Sox with 32 homers, 102 RBI (tied with Adrian Beltre) and 80 walks...Were best marks in each category since 2007 (.332 AVG, 35 HR, 117 RBI, 111 BB). Ranked among AL leaders in homers (T-5th, 32), RBI (T-10th, 102), walks (9th, 82), intentional walks (T-2nd, 14), extra-base hits (T-9th, 69), slugging (8th, .529), home run ratio (T-4th, 16.19 AB/HR) and RBI ratio (5th, 5.08 AB/RBI)...Tied Texas' Josh Hamilton for the most homers by a left-handed AL hitter. Marked 6th career, 30-homer season, all with the Sox, tied with Manny Ramirez for 2nd in club history after Ted Williams (8)...Also 6th triple-digit RBI season, tied for 3rd most in club history behind Ted Williams (9) and Jim Rice (8)...Only Ted Williams has more 30-HR, 100-RBI seasons with Boston (7). 5th year with at least 30 homers as a DH, extending his all-time record, and 4th campaign with 100+ RBI as a DH, tying Edgar Martinez for the all-time mark...Last RBI of the season, an RBI single in the 4th inning on 9/29 at CWS, was the 1,000th of his career as a DH, 3 shy of Edgar Martinez's all-time record (1,003). Hit just 1 homer with 4 RBI in April but cracked 31 beginning 5/1, tied for 3rd in the AL in that time...After April, also ranked among circuit leaders in RBI (7th, 98), walks (7th, 75), extra-base hits (T-4th, 63) and slugging (4th, .558). Matched career high with 2 homers on 5/1 at BAL, 5/14 at DET and 7/26 at LAA. Named AL Player of the Month for May after hitting 10 homers, tied for 2nd in the Majors and his largest total in any month since August 2006 (10)...Also finished among May AL leaders in slugging (1st, .788), OPS (1st, 1.211), RBI (T-2nd, 27), batting (4th, .363) and total bases (T-5th, 63)...Had at least 10 homers, 25 RBI and a .350 average in a month for the 2nd time in his career, also June of 2004 (10 HR, 31 RBI, .365 AVG)...Marked his 4th monthly honor (also September 2005, July 2006 and September 2007)...Jon Lester won Pitcher of the Month, the 1st pair of teammates to capture both awards in the same month since June 2006 (Minnesota's Joe Mauer and Johan Santana) and the 3rd pair of Red Sox teammates ever to do so, joining Dwight Evans and Mark Clear in May 1981, and Nomar Garciaparra and Pedro Martinez in May 1999. Led the Majors with 21 walks in June, tied for his most June walks ever (also 2006) and most in any month since August 2008 (25)...Ranked among June AL leaders in extra-base hits (T-6th, 13), runs (7th, 20), homers (T-7th, 6) and RBI (T-8th, 22). Passed Manny Ramirez (274) for 5th in club history with his 275th homer with Boston on 6/27 at SF...Passed Ramirez for 6th on the Sox all-time list with his 869th RBI on 6/11 vs. PHI. Elected by Player Ballot to his 6th career All-Star Game, 3rd as a DH...Pinch-hit in the 6th and finished 1-for-2 with a single in the 7/13 exhibition at Angel Stadium. Won the Home Run Derby on 7/12 at Anaheim with 32 long balls over the competition's 3 rounds, including an 11-homer total to defeat Florida's Hanley Ramirez in the final round...Became the 1st Red Sox player to win the Home Run Derby, and at 34 years and 236 days old became the oldest Derby winner since the event became a 3-round competition in 1996, passing Luis Gonzalez (33 years, 309 days in 2001). Issued 6 intentional walks in July, 4th most in the Majors, and ranked among AL July leaders in overall walks (T-4th, 19), RBI (T-8th, 18) and HR (T-11th, 5). Tied a career high with 3 intentional walks on 7/6 at TB (also 7/7/07 at DET). Batted .293 (71-for-242) with 14 homers and 43 RBI in his last 64 games beginning 7/22, 1 of just 3 AL players to reach those marks in that span (also Chicago's Paul Konerko and Detroit's Miguel Cabrera). Collected a pair of double-digit hit streaks (13 games from 7/22-8/4 and 11 games from 8/8-20) for the 1st time in a single season since 2005...His 13-game run tied for his 2nd-longest career hit streak (also 7/12-28/07) after a career-long 19-gamer, 7/17-8/6/02. Hit 9th career grand slam on 7/30 vs. DET...Was 8th slam with Boston, tied for 3rd on club's all-time list (also Bobby Doerr, Trot Nixon and Jim Rice), behind Ted Williams (17) and Rico Petrocelli (9)...Became the all-time leader with 8 career grand slams at Fenway Park, passing Rice and Williams (both 7). Hit a walk-off, 3-run double on 7/31 vs. DET, his 18th career walk-off hit, tops among active Major Leaguers. Notched only triple of the year on 8/22 vs. TOR...Joins Johnny Damon and Carlos Guillen as the only AL batters to record at least 1 triple in each of the last 11 seasons since 2000...12 other ML batters overall have accomplished the feat. Drove in 20 runs in 21 games from 9/5-29 and tied for 4th in the AL with 23 total RBI in September...Recorded multiple hits in 6 of his last 10 games beginning 9/22, batting at a .429 clip (15-for-35) with 2 homers, 10 RBI and 6 walks in that time to raise his season average from .259 to .270.

2009 Highlights:
Posted 6th career season of at least 25 homers, tying Manny Ramirez and Mo Vaughn for 3rd most in club history...Set the all-time mark for homers by a DH, ending the season with 274 at the position...Finished 1 shy of 6th career 100-RBI season despite driving in just 18 runs through his 1st 47 tilts...Placed 4th in the AL with 43, 2-out RBI behind NYY's Mark Teixeira (46), LAA's Kendry Morales (45) and teammate Kevin Youkilis (44)...Tied for 7th in the AL with 27 multi-RBI tilts, including a season-high 4 twice (7/8 vs. OAK and 9/23 at KC)...Did not hit 1st home run until 5/20 vs. TOR, his 1st roundtripper since 9/22/08...Ended a career-high span of 149 at-bats without a homer...Tied with MIN's Michael Cuddyer, TOR's Adam Lind and NYY's Mark Teixeira for the AL lead with 28 homers from 5/20 through the end of the regular season...Led the AL with 27 homers beginning 6/6 and tied the Angels Bobby Abreu and Yankees Alex Rodriguez for the league lead with 78 RBI in that time...The Red Sox posted a 23-4 record when he went deep in 2009...Hit just .218 (84-for-386) in his 1st 106 games 4/7-8/13 but batted .290 (45-for-155) over his final 44 tilts...Saw most action from the No. 5 spot in the lineup, batting .275 (56-for-204) with 16 homers and 43 RBI in 56 games (55 GS)...Also started in the No. 3 (40), No. 4 (23), No. 6 (24) and No. 7 (2) spots...Batted 6th on 5/26 at MIN, marking his 1st start in any spot other than 3rd since 5/13/05 at SEA (4th) and 1st in the 6-hole since 5/11/04 vs. CLE...Drew at least 1 walk in 10 straight games from 4/30-5/19, the longest streak by a Sox hitter since he did it over 11 contests from 9/2-9/13/05...His only longer stretch was a 12-gamer, 7/27-8/9/05...Was 3rd in the AL with a .653 slugging percentage in June, batting .320 (24-for-75) with 7 homers and 18 RBI in that month...Finished 2nd in the league with 24 RBI in July...Collected 1,000th career RBI with a 3-run homer, 6/24 at WSH...Notched 1,000th hit as a member of the Red Sox with a home run on 7/11 vs. the Royals...Became 30th player in club history to reach that mark and the 1st to homer for No. 1,000 since Carlton Fisk on 6/1/80 vs. MIL...Knocked 300th career home run off Luke Hochevar on 7/9 vs. KC...Became the 8th player to hit his 300th homer for BOS and the 4th to do so at Fenway Park, joining Ted Williams (1951), Dwight Evans (1987) and Manny Ramirez (2002)...On 8/10 vs. DET, snapped a career-long 0-for-23 drought with runners on base...Homered in 3 straight tilts, 8/16-19, going 5-for-10 (.500) with 5 RBI and 6 runs in that time...Drove in at least 1 run in 6 straight games from 8/16-22 with 11 total RBI in that time...Hit 10th career walk-off home run on 8/26 off CWS's Tony Pena to give BOS a 3-2 victory...Marked his 9th as a member of the Red Sox, passing Jimmie Foxx (8) for the most in club history...Was also his 2nd roundtripper of the game, marking 34th career multi-homer effort and 32nd with the Sox, 3rd in club history behind Ted Williams (37) and Jim Rice (35)...Belted 270th career home run as a designated hitter off Jose Arredondo on 9/15 vs. LAA, passing Frank Thomas (269) for the all-time lead in that category.