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Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran revealed in an interview that his struggles with mental health during the 2021 and 2022 seasons reached the point where he attempted suicide.
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Duran, 28, opened up as part of Netflix’s docuseries “The Clubhouse: A Year With the Red Sox,” which premieres on Tuesday. In the fourth episode of the series, titled “Still Alive,” Duran explained that he attempted to shoot himself with a rifle, but the gun did not fire.
During the 2021 and 2022 seasons, when Duran was a 25-year-old rookie, he batted a combined .218 with a .612 OPS and five home runs over the first 91 games of his MLB career. That was not the production expected from a starting center fielder, and the pressure he felt from not fulfilling those demands became increasingly difficult for him.
“I would think every day, ‘I can’t f***ing do this,'” he said, via The Boston Globe. “I couldn’t deal with telling myself how much I sucked every f***ing day. Like I was already hearing it from fans and, like, what they say to me. It’s like, I haven’t told myself 10 times worse than that in the mirror. That was, like, a really tough time for me.
“It was a pretty low time for me. I didn’t even want to be here anymore.”
Director Greg Whiteley then asked Duran, “When you say ‘here,’ you mean ‘here’ with the Red Sox or ‘here’ on planet Earth?”
“Probably both. Yeah. Probably both,” Duran responded. “I got to a point where I was sitting in my room, I had my rifle and I had a bullet and I pulled the trigger and the gun clicked, but nothing happened.
So, to this day, I think God just didn’t let me take my own life because I seriously don’t know why it didn’t go off. I took it as a sign of, ‘I might have to be here for a reason’, so that’s when I started to look myself in the mirror after the gun didn’t go off.”
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Duran first acknowledged his difficulties in 2022, which included a demotion to the minor leagues, speaking with MassLive reporter Chris Cotillo.
“It has been pretty hard,” Duran told Cotillo in August 2022. “I can’t talk about too much of it, but I’ve been pretty low this year. It has been a struggle to stay here [in the major leagues]. I don’t really talk to my family about my low points because I’m so closed off to everybody.”
After beginning the 2023 season in Triple A, Duran steadily improved during his first full season in 2023. He had a breakout campaign last year, batting .285 with an .834 OPS, 21 home runs, 75 RBI and 34 stolen bases. He led MLB with 48 doubles and 14 triples, and was named to the American League All-Star team (hitting a two-run homer and being named MVP of the All-Star Game) while finishing eighth in AL MVP voting.
Red Sox president and CEO Sam Kennedy praised Duran for sharing his struggles publicly.
“Jarren’s decision to share his story is an act of courage that reaches far beyond baseball,” Kennedy said in a statement. “By opening up, he’s showing others who may be struggling that they’re not alone and that asking for help isn’t just OK, it’s essential.
“Every member of this organization continues to stand with him. He has our deepest admiration, he’s always had our full support and we’re incredibly fortunate to have him as part of our team.”
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred echoed those sentiments to the Boston Globe’s Peter Abraham, commending Duran for raising mental health awareness among fellow players and baseball fans.
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