Watch the first clip from Netflix series that follows 2024 Red Sox

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- At this time last year, Netflix cameras and crew members flooded the Fenway South complex to start filming an all-access docuseries on the 2024 Red Sox.

While there were no traces of them on Tuesday¡¯s eve of another Spring Training, the project is now in its final stages and will soon be available on your phone, tablet or television.

All eight episodes of ¡°The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox¡± will drop on Netflix on April 8.

The first clip was released for public consumption on Wednesday. While the tease was less than 90 seconds, it serves as an example of the compelling ways that Netflix will take you behind the scenes through the grind of a baseball season.

Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas is the featured artist of the clip, which culminates with the left-handed slugger furious with himself after a bad at-bat against the Twins that resulted in a groundout to second base.

The cinematic touches that four-time Emmy Award winning director Greg Whiteley and his crew will provide throughout the eight episodes are evident in this clip, which starts with Casas walking into the home clubhouse in street clothes to start his work day, then through the dugout and onto the field in full uniform with an accompanying voiceover: ¡°I dedicated my life to this game. It¡¯s tough when you go out there because you¡¯re vulnerable. You can do everything right and still have a bad result.¡±

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Casas, who missed four months of the season with torn cartilage in his left rib cage and spent the final six weeks of the season battling to regain his timing, was in no mood for a bad result during this particular September game against the Twins, with his team falling out of the postseason race.

¡°What am I doing out there, man? Get a grip, kid. He can¡¯t beat me with anything,¡± said a mic¡¯d up Casas. ¡°He¡¯s throwing 90 miles an hour, man. Get a swing off. Pathetic.¡±

It¡¯s interesting that the first released clip is of an out rather than a dramatic home run, but also a bit fitting in what Netflix tried to accomplish in this unprecedented series, which marks the first time an MLB team granted all access to a camera crew for a season.

¡°Even a casual baseball fan will have seen a groundout to first hundreds of times. This routine play becomes noteworthy when a player like Triston grants us access to his inner monologue and we get a glimpse of the type of mental tightrope these players walk 162+ games a year,¡± said Whiteley. ¡°This clip is emblematic of the type of access we were granted by the Red Sox organization when chronicling them during the 2024 season.¡±

The overriding message that Whiteley is trying to get across to the audience is that baseball is a sport like no other, given the grind of a 162-game season. This is, after all, a game of failure, and it¡¯s that struggle that makes success so satisfying. The series will take you through the personal and professional lives of the players as they fight the mental and physical pressure of a long season.

Netflix will take you through the laughs and the tears and everything in between as it was experienced in real time by the 81-81 Red Sox of ¡®24, with access that stretches from the field to the clubhouse to restaurants and the homes of players.

Ultimately, the project was green-lighted with the blessing of a group of Red Sox veterans, including shortstop Trevor Story.

¡°There's a lot of stuff that goes on during a season that's very raw and not pleasing,¡± Story said recently. ¡°It's competition at the highest level. So with that comes intensity, comes bad language, comes a lot of stuff that you don't necessarily want people to see. But I thought it was a cool opportunity to where we can kind of tell our story.¡±

Given what an open book Casas is, it should come as no surprise that he was one of the most willing participants with the Netflix crew.

¡°I just tried to remain authentic throughout it all,¡± said Casas. ¡°Greg made it easy for me to just gravitate toward him and the project and just get behind it as much as I can. I just wanted to provide as much perspective about my background, my life and what it's like to be a player at this level.¡±