Three months after a teammate and his wife went public with death threats they received on social media, Red Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito was compelled to confront commissioner Rob Manfred about the issue.

Giolito told Rob Bradford on the Baseball Isn't Boring podcast that the threats against Boston pitcher Liam Hendriks in May were hardly an isolated incident.

Giolito said the online threats are getting worse "by the year, by the week, by the day."

"I'm getting messages after every game," he said. "Even games where I pitched well, where they're mad at me because I hit the strikeout over instead of being under; prop bets, all these crazy things. People put hundreds of dollars on it. They don't have a lot of money but they're gambling it anyway because it's a disease. They freak out."