 He finished the season with 70 stolen bases, the most in the American League, and he also led the league in triples with 10.He won Defensive Player of the Year in MLB.com's annual This Year in Baseball Awards 2009.During the offseason, Ellsbury changed his uniform number from 46 to 2, which had belonged to the Red Sox' former bench coach, Brad Mills, who left the organization to become the manager of the Houston Astros.