Cam Schlittler downplays ‘disgusting’ threats, feels Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is ‘heading in the right direction’
BOSTON — 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 he’s received from some Red Sox fans ever since he knocked their team out of the postseason last October. Over the weekend, Schlittler, a Walpole, Mass. , native who grew up rooting for the Red Sox, told the New York Post’s Joel Sherman that he’s even received death threats.
However, the 25-year-old, whose father, John, is a police chief in Needham, Mass. , didn’t feel the need to relay the threats to the Yankees or authorities. A Yankees spokesman added Tuesday that the club hasn’t gotten involved with Schlittler set to make his first career start at Fenway on Thursday.
While Schlittler said Tuesday that “there’s definitely been some disgusting messages” sent to him and his parents, he didn’t want to share any details with reporters. “I’m not really worried about it,” he continued. “At the end of the day, it’s just part of the game.
I have no issue with it. I’ve been dealing with it for six months, and it doesn’t really affect me at all. So I didn’t really want it to be a huge thing the other day.
” Schlittler also said it’s “pretty normal” and “not out of the ordinary” for athletes to get death threats, a sad reality. “Now, do I expect to get more death threats here than from, you know, Cleveland when I pitch there? Yeah, for sure,” Schlittler said, though he noted that he had “great” and “respectful” interactions with fans in public when he spent a few months in Boston over the offseason.
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