BOSTON — Curt Schilling, the 42-year-old right-hander decided to retire from baseball Monday after a career in which he won World Series titles with the Boston Red Sox and Arizona Diamondbacks.
Schilling said on his blog he’s leaving after 23 years with “zero regrets.” The hard throwing righty missed all of last season with a shoulder injury after signing a one-year, $8 million contract with the Red Sox.
Curt said in his blog “The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.”
He was drafted by the Red Sox in the second round of the 1986 draft, but was traded to the Baltimore Orioles before playing for the big league club. He pitched for the Orioles, Houston, Philadelphia and Arizona before returning to the team that drafted him.
Schilling, one of the sport’s hard throwers, finishes his career with 3,116 strikeouts, 14th most in baseball history, a 216-146 record and a 3.46 ERA.
He was even better in the postseason, with an 11-2 record, the best of any pitcher with at least 10 decisions, and 2.23 ERA in 19 career starts.
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