“With the rise of sports gambling, [the threats have] gotten a lot worse,” said [Red Sox reliever] Liam Hendriks. “…whether it be Venmo requests, whether it be people telling you in their comments, ‘Hey, you blew my parlay. Go [expletive] yourself,’ kind of stuff. And then it’s, ‘Go hang yourself. You should kill yourself. I wish you died from cancer.’ That one kind of hit a little too close to home for me with everything I’ve gone through.”