{"id":679363,"date":"2026-04-19T20:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679363\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:40:29","slug":"yankees-cam-schlittler-getting-death-threats-before-fenway-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679363\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Cam Schlittler getting &#8216;death threats&#8217; before Fenway debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Cam Schlittler discusses facing the Red Sox at Fenway Park in his next start, I expect to look left and right in the Yankees clubhouse and see the scruffy Thurman Munson and Graig Nettles and not the gentlemanly Max Fried and Gerrit Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s just say that given the choice on whether to toss kerosene or water on the lingering embers from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/04\/sports\/cam-schlittler-relishes-shutting-up-unhinged-red-sox-fans-years-after-boston-spurned-the-hometown-product\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last October\u2019s conflict with a segment of Red Sox fans<\/a>, Schlittler did in words what he does on the mound \u2014 threw heat. And made it feel a little like The Rivalry again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really care going in there that they kind of hate me,\u201d Schlittler said Sunday. \u201cI don\u2019t have an issue with that. It really just gets me going a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On what he expects Thursday night at Fenway: \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be bad, It\u2019s gonna be bad. I\u2019m not nervous about it. But it\u2019s gonna be loud. They\u2019re gonna probably have dudes that are my age or a little bit younger, sitting right outside the (visiting) bullpen (that is mostly exposed in right field), yelling, whatever, probably throwing stuff at me, trying to grab me. That\u2019s kind of what I expect. So I know the guys are excited for it and I\u2019m excited for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Cam Schlittler discusses facing the Red Sox at Fenway Park in his next start, I expect to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,48,20455,8057,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,430,428,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-679363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-cam-schlittler","11":"tag-exclusive","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkyankees","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116433310385685848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679363","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=679363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}