Former Red Sox first base coach Tom Goodwin, who wasn’t able to take part in the team’s 2021 postseason run due to his vaccination status, believes MLB bullied coaches into getting the COVID vaccine.
“I’ve never been an anti-vax guy. I didn’t feel it was right the way MLB was doing it,” Goodwin told The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal in an interview published Friday. “I really felt — and it was just how I felt, maybe I was wrong, maybe I wasn’t — but that we were being bullied, the personnel who did not get vaccinated, by MLB.