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The gardener of the Red Sox, Jarren Duran, said in an upcoming documentary series that two years before his 2024 stars season, the sport pressures took him to intense episodes of depression and an attempt at suicide.
“I remember when I was happening and you start losing a couple of games and you are not well, it seems that the world is dragging you a little,” said Duran, 28, in the fourth episode of a Netflix series of eight parts Titled “The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox”, which will debut on Tuesday.
The episode narrates Duran’s trip, a draft selection of the seventh round in 2018, to make its MLB debut in 2021 after becoming one of the best prospects of the elderly as one of the best batters of minors. He also deepens his struggles not long after being called to the elderly, since the former picture player had difficulty adapting to playing in the garden.
“They love you one day, and the next day they have to grind you a little,” Duran recalled.
He said there were times when he felt that players were treated as “zoo animals.”
“Sometimes, some fans take too seriously. I feel they cross when they start talking about my mental health, mocking me for that,” Duran said. “Call me weak. He simply triggered me when you start talking about mental health because I feel that is only part of that, that loneliness. Some people treat it better than others.”
The intense atmosphere of the Boston sports media market was also taken in it, he said.
“I remember that when I started fighting for the first time I was like, I just send me back (to the minor leagues),” he recalled. “Honestly, he felt that there was a dark cloud on me because it is very easy to look beyond the positive things for me and then grab negative things.”
That pressure to act reached a critical point at a point for young Slugger.
“I couldn’t deal with telling me how much it stuns every day,” Duran said. “I already listened to fans. And what they told me, (it’s not like) I haven’t told myself 10 times worse in the mirror. That was a really difficult time for me. I didn’t even want to be here.”
The director of the series, Greg Whiteley, asked: “When you say, ‘here’, do you mean here with the red socks or here on planet Earth?”
“Probably both,” Duran said before going into details.
In a statement, the president and CEO of the Red Sox, Sam Kennedy, praised Duran for being open for caring for his mental health.
“Jarren’s decision to share his story is an act of courage that reaches much beyond baseball,” Kennedy said. “When opening, he is showing others who may be fighting for not being alone and that asking for help is not only well, each member of this organization continues with him. He has our deepest admiration, he has always had our full support, and we are incredibly fortunately fortunate to have him as part of our team.”
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