Boston Red Sox legend Tim Wakefield died just three days after learning of his brain cancer

Former Boston Red Sox starter and part of the team for 17 seasons, Tim Wakefield, died this Sunday just three days after his former teammate Curt Schilling revealed that he suffered from incurable brain cancer.

Through social networks, it was the Red Sox themselves who reported Wakefield’s death, with a brief message in which they remembered the knuckleballer.

“Our hearts are broken with the loss of Tim Wakefield. Our love and deepest thoughts are with the Wakefield family,” the official Boston account on X (formerly Twitter) published, accompanied by a photo in which he appears with his wife.

The information from Schilling, who revealed the pitcher’s condition on his podcast, brought multiple negative comments due to the privacy condition that his family had requested after he received the diagnosis.

Even the wife of former Red Sox captain and catcher Jason Varitek attacked Schilling with strong comments for ignoring Wakefield’s cancer confidentiality status.

However, after the information was made public by Schilling himself, Boston made Wakefield’s illness official but did not reveal details about his condition due to the same privacy status requested by those closest to him.

As for the right-hander’s career, at the time of his retirement in 2011 he finished with a record of 200 wins and 180 losses in 627 games, including 463 as a starter, leaving a lifetime ERA of 4.41, being part of the World Series championships that Boston won. in 2004 and 2007 respectively.

In addition, Wakefield also became the third winningest pitcher in Red Sox history (186), only surpassed by legends Cy Young (192) and Roger Clemens (192).

Wakefield’s greatest legacy was having brought the knuckleball back to the Majors, a pitch discarded for several decades that allowed him to win 200 games in the Major Leagues, despite having been selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first round of the draft. amateur in 1988 after he broke a home run record playing first base at Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida.

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