Unfortunately for Doubront, manager John Farrell doesn't see it happening, saying Sunday, "there's a clear role for him in the bullpen and sometimes performance guides where you're slotted."
If the Red Sox won't give him a chance to start, Doubront would rather be traded to a team that would.
"If something happens, it’s going to happen because it’s going to be the best for me," he said. "I just want to be a starter and stay there. If I stay (with the Red Sox), they have to know I have to be a starter. If I go, the other team is going to give me this chance to be a starter."
While Doubront won't be eligible for arbitration for the first time until 2015 and won't be a free agent until 2018, there could be another team willing to give him another shot in the starting rotation if the Red Sox were open to trading him.
"The thing is, if the (Red Sox) say I have to prove myself, I already did man," he said. "It’s (messed) up. So if these guys say I have to pitch to prove whatever, no, they already know what I have. I showed them what I have, as a reliever and as a starter.
"For me, they don’t see the numbers, they don’t care what I’ve done in the past. It’s hard to be happy like that with these guys."
Doubront has a career 4.47 ERA as a starter and a 7.20 ERA in 35 innings as a reliever.
"First of all, I’m not a reliever," he said. "They know that. They just, you know, it’s hard but I don’t know what they’re doing. I know they’re not doing the right thing for me. That’s what I know right now at this moment. I’m an employee just following the order but they know I’m not happy. I don’t know what they’re going to do in the future but I’m don’t want to be a reliever the whole year, that’s what I know."
Doubront emphasized that while he isn't happy being in the bullpen, he would like to get more opportunities. He went 14 days from July 7 to July 21 without pitching at all.
"I just want to pitch," he said. "Give me the ball and I’ll pitch. I cant show to you what I got, because you already know. But let me show it to other teams and that’s what I want. And they know that."