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Cam Schlittler downplayed online harassment and death threats from Red Sox fans after eliminating their team last postseason. He feels the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is improving despite the negativity.
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BOSTON ā With a swath of reporters from New York and Boston huddled around his locker at Fenway Park on Tuesday, Cam Schlittler downplayed the online harassment heās received from some Red Sox fans ever since he knocked their team out of the postseason last October.
Over the weekend, Schlittler, a Walpole, Massachusetts native who grew up rooting for the Red Sox, told the New York Postās Joel Sherman that heās even received death threats. However, the 25-year-old, whose father, John, is a police chief in Needham, Massachusetts, didnāt feel the need to relay the threats to the Yankees or authorities. A Yankees spokesman added Tuesday that the club hasnāt gotten involved with Schlittler set to make his first career start at Fenway on Thursday.
While Schlittler said Tuesday that āthereās definitely been some disgusting messagesā sent to him and his parents, he didnāt want to share any details with reporters.
āIām not really worried about it,ā he continued. āAt the end of the day, itās just part of the game. I have no issue with it. Iāve been dealing with it for six months, and it doesnāt really affect me at all. So I didnāt really want it to be a huge thing the other day.ā
Schlittler also said itās āpretty normalā and ānot out of the ordinaryā for athletes to get death threats, a sad reality.
āNow, do I expect to get more death threats here than from, you know, Cleveland when I pitch there? Yeah, for sure,ā Schlittler said, though he noted that he had āgreatā and ārespectfulā interactions with fans in public when he spent a few months in Boston over the offseason.
His negative interactions have mostly come on social media, where Red Sox fans first went after him and his family before his start against Boston in Game 3 of last yearās Wild Card Series. A little āshockedā and angered by some posts he saw before the game, Schlittler, a rookie at time, went on to strike out 12 over eight scoreless innings. The gem sent the Yankees to the ALDS and the Red Sox home for the winter.
Cam Schlittler has received online harassment and death threats from some Red Sox fans since knocking their team out of the postseason last October.
Schlittler stated that he is not worried about the threats and considers them part of the game, indicating they do not affect him.
Cam Schlittler is a Walpole, Massachusetts native who grew up rooting for the Red Sox, making the threats from their fans particularly notable.
A Yankees spokesman mentioned that the club has not gotten involved regarding the threats Schlittler received as he prepares for his first career start at Fenway Park.

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Schlittler boasted about that a few times on social media in the hours, days and weeks that followed. That led to some more hate over the offseason.
On Tuesday, he said heās not going out of his way to seek out negative comments on social media or do his own trash talking, though itās not something heās shied away from.
āI said what I needed to say at the end of last year,ā Schlittler said of navigating his online interactions. āThereās not much a regular season game is going to change about that. Iām not too worried about that. Iāve got a job to do. I donāt want to create a distraction for the team, so Iām just gonna go out there and do what I need to do on the mound.
āThe goal is to win a championship, and whatever I can do to help the team win is exactly what Iām looking to do,ā he said. āBut I donāt think Iām gonna get there by messing with people on social media.ā
Aaron Boone, meanwhile, semi-jokingly said, āWeāre trying to have him have less of a social media presence.ā
Now Schlittler, who has a 1.95 ERA over five starts, is set to face the Red Sox for the first time since that outing. Heās expecting a raucous crowd Thursday with his parents and lots of friends coming to the game.
āItās gonna be loud,ā Schlittler said, āand Iām really looking forward to it.ā
Schlittler last pitched at Fenway his senior year of high school in an area prospects showcase organized by Yankees scout Matt Hyde, who eventually convinced the club to draft the pitcher out of Northeastern in 2022. Schlittler last visited Fenway in May, catching a Red Sox night game after making an early start for the Yankeesā Double-A affiliate.
As a kid, Schlittler dreamed of pitching for the Red Sox at Fenway Park, but that obviously changed as he went through the pre-draft process and built a relationship with the Yankees. Still, he never imagined getting booed at Fenway, but he knows thatās about to happen this week.
As someone who attended Red Sox games as a kid, Schlittler is familiar with how harsh the Fenway faithful can be, especially when the Yankees are in town. And while he doesnāt think the American League East rivalry is āas intense as it used to be,ā he did say, āI think weāre heading in the right direction.ā
Heās certainly played a helping hand in that regard.
āI donāt think the goal is to just heat the rivalry up,ā Schlittler said. āI think the goal is, when youāre playing division rivals, that youāre gonna perform at the best level. And if some guys, that rivalry feeds them a little bit ā like it does for me ā then great. If not, then it doesnāt matter.ā