BOSTON -- Dustin Pedroia will not play again this season. But the Red Sox second baseman expects to be fully healthy and ready for the beginning of spring training 2019.

Pedroia underwent a left knee arthroscopy to remove scar tissue in late July. The Red Sox kept the procedure quiet until today.

"I'll be ready; 100 percent," Pedroia said here at Fenway Park on Friday. "The issue that I had was more of a scar tissue thing. It was kind of stuck to the area where I had surgery. And it was pulling on it. And obviously it was painful. But we took care of that. Once that happened I was pretty relieved. Just the way I felt, the way I was moving and the way I was recovering. So I'm excited going forward. It stinks not being able to help out playing. But it's a part of it. You deal with it the best you can. But going forward I'll be fine and back to normal."

Pedroia initially underwent a knee arthroscopy last October. The procedure determined he needed a left knee cartilage restoration procedure, which he underwent Oct. 25, 2017.

Pedroia said here Friday that his doctor told him 25 percent of the patients who undergo a cartilage restoration procedure eventually require a knee scope to clean out scar tissue.

"I'll be fine," Pedroia said. "Honestly I didn't think that way up until six weeks ago just because of the discomfort and the things I was going through and how well I felt before I played those three games. The one day I woke up, I knew something was up. But after the scope to clean things up, that's when I knew everything. I actually might be a little bit faster. So I'll be fine."