Boston Red Sox pitcher Liam Hendriks has had enough with the hate.
The athlete wrote out about death threats that he and his wife, Kristi Hendriks, have been receiving amid his current MLB season and the team’s latest loss against the New York Mets.
“Just an FYI,” Hendriks, 36, wrote on his Instagram story on May 22, “threats against my life and my wife’s life are horrible and cruel.”
“You need help,” he continued. “Leaving comments telling me to commit suicide and how you wish I died from cancer is disgusting and vile. Maybe you should take a step back and reevaluate your life’s purpose before hiding behind a screen attacking players and their families.”
In January 2023, the then-pitcher for the White Sox revealed that he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and that he would be immediately starting treatment. Hendriks underwent chemotherapy and immunotherapy later that year, still playing on the field.
The Instagram statement comes after some fans called out his performance this season, as well as the team’s May 21 loss. Additionally, Hendriks gave comments to the Boston Globe saying he should be utilized more.
Hendriks continued calling out the nasty comments on Instagram, writing, “I think I speak for all the players who have had to deal with this in their career when I say: Enough is enough.”
Regarding his cancer journey, in April 2023, he revealed he was cancer-free.
He returned to the field, but also faced a tear of the outside of his elbow and in June 2023, he underwent Tommy John surgery, which is done to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament inside the elbow by replacing it with a tendon from another in the body, according to Johns Hopkin Medicine.
The athlete was sidelined for 22 months and a free agent, according to The New York Times, before signing with the Red Sox in 2024.
“It’s been a long and arduous journey to get here, but now I’m here,” he told the newspaper in April 2025. “Now I can actually perform and go out there and do what these guys are paying me to do.”
“I’ve got to do my job and show these guys that they can feel confident going to me in any situation,” he added.
When it came to the Red Sox’s loss on May 21, Hendriks expressed his frustrations to the press, saying, “I’d felt like I’d been pitching well enough to get trusted in a couple of those situations and it didn’t come to fruition.”
