{"id":142589,"date":"2025-06-30T20:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/142589\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:34:12","slug":"i-pulled-the-trigger-on-myself-jarren-duran-says-he-nearly-took-his-own-life-during-rough-patch-with-red-sox-mlb-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/142589\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI pulled the trigger on myself\u201d: Jarren Duran says he nearly took his own life during rough patch with Red Sox | MLB News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/122166949.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cI pulled the trigger on myself\u201d: Jarren Duran says he nearly took his own life during rough patch with Red Sox\" title=\"Jarren Duran recently spoke about his experience with mental health issues.(Image via Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Jarren Duran recently spoke about his experience with mental health issues.(Image via Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images) Jarren Duran, one of the most popular and talented players in the Boston Red Sox, has constantly proved his worth on the field. But the star player\u2019s revelation on the Netflix docuseries, The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox, shocked fans as Jarren Duran spoke about hitting a rough patch on the field and how it affected him to the extent of contemplating self harm.<\/p>\n<p>Jarren Duran recently opened up about how close he was to harming himself after hitting a rough patch on the field<\/p>\n<p>The Netflix docuseries, The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox, released in April 2025 and looked deeper into how the team performed in 2024. In the eighth episode, Jarren Duran opened up about contemplating self harm when his performance hit a slump.<\/p>\n<p>The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox | Official Trailer | Netflix<\/p>\n<p>Jarren Duran said, \u201cI 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\u2019t let me take my own life because I seriously don\u2019t know why it didn\u2019t go off.\u201dThe Boston Red Sox\u2019s star player also opened up about how fans\u2019 reactions on his poor performance on the field had a huge impact on his mental health.Jarren Duran said, \u201cI was already hearing it from fans\u2026That was a really tough time for me. I didn\u2019t even want to be here anymore.\u201dJarren Duran started his career in the MLB with his current team, the Boston Red Sox, back in 2021 and has constantly proved his worth.Last year, the star player was named the All-Star Game MVP after he was selected to play in the 2024 MLB All-Star Game. Jarren Duran was also placed 8th in American League MVP voting but he also got involved in a bit of controversy last year.Jarren Duran was suspended by the Boston Red Sox for two games after the star player was caught abusing a heckler. As per reports, on 11th August 2024, Jarren Duran called a heckler a \u201cf**king faggot\u201d and it did not go down well with his team.Jarren Duran later had to apologise for being abusive.Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/mlb\/news\/alex-bregmans-wife-reagan-bregman-turns-heads-in-nyc-as-agent-scott-boras-hints-at-new-red-sox-contract\/articleshow\/122116058.cms\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Bregman&#8217;s wife, Reagan Bregman, turns heads in NYC as agent Scott Boras hints at new Red Sox contract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jarren Duran recently spoke about his experience with mental health issues.(Image via Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images) Jarren Duran, one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,604,608,4,13669,28355,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-142589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-jarren-duran","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-mlb-all-star-game","16":"tag-near-suicide-experience","17":"tag-red-sox","18":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114774230028232898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}