Red Sox's Jarren Duran opens up about mental health, attempted suicide in Netflix documentary

Kyle Hightower · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 07, 2025 7:45 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

WARNING: This communicative contains mention of suicide.

Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran said successful an upcoming documentary bid that 2 years earlier his 2024 All-Star season, the pressures of the athletics led him to aggravated bouts of slump and an attempted suicide.

"I retrieve erstwhile I was going done it and you commencement losing a mates of games and you're not doing good, it feels similar the satellite is benignant of creeping successful connected you," Duran, 28, said successful the 4th occurrence of an eight-part Netflix bid titled, "The Clubhouse: A Year With the Red Sox," which volition debut connected Tuesday.

The occurrence chronicles the travel of Duran, a seventh-round draught prime successful 2018, to making his MLB debut successful 2021 aft becoming 1 of the majors' apical prospects arsenic 1 of the apical hitters successful the minors. It besides delves into his struggles not agelong aft getting called up to the majors, arsenic the erstwhile infielder had a hard clip adapting to playing successful the outfield.

"They emotion you 1 day, and past the adjacent time they person to grind connected you a small bit," Duran recalled.

He said determination were times helium felt players were treated similar "zoo animals."

"Sometimes immoderate fans instrumentality it excessively serious. I consciousness they transverse the enactment erstwhile they commencement talking astir my intelligence wellness — making amusive of maine for that," Duran said. "Calling maine weak. It conscionable benignant of triggered maine erstwhile you commencement talking astir intelligence wellness due to the fact that I consciousness similar that is conscionable portion of it — that loneliness. Some radical woody with it amended than others."

The aggravated ambiance of the Boston sports media marketplace besides wore connected him, helium said.

That unit to execute came to a caput astatine 1 constituent for the young slugger.

"I couldn't woody with telling myself however overmuch I sucked everyday," Duran said. "I was already proceeding it from fans. And what they said to me, [it's not like] I haven't told myself 10 times worse successful the mirror. That was a truly pugnacious clip for me. I didn't adjacent privation to beryllium present anymore."

The series' director, Greg Whiteley, past asked, "When you say, `here,' you mean present with the Red Sox oregon present connected satellite Earth?"

"Probably both," Duran said earlier going into detail.

In a statement, Red Sox President and CEO Sam Kennedy commended Duran for being unfastened astir taking attraction of his intelligence health.

"Jarren's determination to stock his communicative is an enactment of courageousness that reaches acold beyond baseball," Kennedy said. "By opening up, he's showing others who whitethorn beryllium struggling that they're not unsocial and that asking for assistance isn't conscionable okay, it's essential. Every subordinate of this enactment continues to basal with him. He has our deepest admiration, he's ever had our afloat support, and we're incredibly fortunate to person him arsenic portion of our team."