Years before Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran played his way to the All-Stars in 2024, the mounting pressure of the 2022 season nearly ended him.
Duran revealed he attempted to take his own life in the new Netflix docuseries, “The Clubhouse: A Year With the Red Sox,” that will be released Tuesday. In the fourth episode, “Still Alive,” Duran opened up about his yearslong battle with depression, the attempt to take his own life with a rifle and the season that brought him to a breaking point.
Duran was inundated with negativity in his 2022 season. He was failing to live up to his own expectations, hearing the echoes of home fans’ disappointment in him and listening to announcers calling out his shortcomings.
“I would think every day, ‘I can’t f—ing do this,’” Duran admitted. “I couldn’t deal with telling myself how much I sucked every f—ing day. Like I
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