Overview
- Brock Holt recounted on the Section 10 Podcast that during a 2018 trip to Tampa a teammate said he would bring a gun to the field and kill teammates, pointing at Holt first.
- He said staff were alarmed and the strength coach planned to inform then–president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski.
- Holt said the unnamed player was removed from the roster the following day.
- Former assistant hitting coach Andy Barkett appeared to corroborate the account by replying “True Story…” to a podcast clip on X.
- Holt did not identify the player, with online speculation active and no official Red Sox confirmation or comment reported, and the Boston Globe noted a player release after a May 2018 Tampa series without making an attribution.