Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies jobs interesting to Curt Schilling

Former major leaguer Curt Schilling wants to return to baseball, and is eyeing the vacancies on the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies.

Naturally, whenever there is a seemingly attractive job opening anywhere in the majors, all kinds of candidates come crawling out of the woodwork. With the Boston Red Sox looking for a pitching coach and the Philadelphia Phillies searching for a manager, virtually anyone involved with the game that has a pulse is going to be interested.

That list of virtually anyone includes former Red Sox and Phillies pitcher Curt Schilling, who is looking to get back into the game. Naturally, those vacancies are on his short list of openings that he is interested in.

It was probably time for Schilling to attempt to garner some attention for himself. After all, it has been nearly two months since he announced that he was considering a run for Congress in Arizona. Obviously, he did not get the results he wanted from his exploratory committee, or Schilling is just too lazy to actually try to try to do anything.

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As interested as he may be in those openings, it is difficult to image Schilling even getting an interview for either position. Given his racist and homophobic views, as well as his continued war against the media, Schilling would be a public relations nightmare.

In theory, Schilling would be a solid pitching coach. Over his major league career, the six time All Star posted a 216-146 record, with a 3.46 ERA and a 1.137 WHiP, striking out 3116 batters with only 711 walks over his 3261 innings. He had quite the tremendous run of success in the latter half of his career.

It is also possible that a move into coaching would rehabilitate Schilling’s image. After all, Mark McGwire was a baseball pariah until Tony LaRussa gave him a job as the Cardinals hitting coach. All Schilling needs is one team desperate enough to make a splash to give him an offer. But that is not going to happen – Schilling has far too much baggage to be worth the effort.

Curt Schilling has interest in the Boston Red Sox pitching coach and the Philadelphia Phillies managerial openings. That does not mean that either team has any interest in bringing in the circus that will come with the former All Star.