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Pending Physical, One More Year

Pending his passing a physical examination, it’s officially one more year—at $8 million base plus incentives worth up to $2 million—for Curt Schilling in Red Sox silks, ESPN is reporting.

ESPN and the Boston Herald had noted Schilling was contacted by three other teams, including two of his former clubs (Arizona and Philadelphia; Houston was the third), but the righthander “made it clear to all three teams that my intent was to do whatever I could to resolve this and remain in Boston for the final year of my career,” as he noted on his blog.

Schilling has admired the manner in which the Red Sox do business from the moment they reached out to him for that fateful Thanksgiving dinner in 2003, including the letter Theo Epstein and Larry Lucchino wrote him prior to joining the Schillings for turkey, a letter Schilling has now published on his blog with Epstein’s approval.

The righthander—a 21-game winner and postseason blood-sox hero in his first Red Sox season—has graduated to a finesse-and-thought pitcher since injuries have sapped his velocity. But Schilling still went 9-8/3.87 in 2007, going on to win three games in the Red Sox’s plunge through the postseason, including Game Six of the American League Championship Series and Game Two of the World Series, further securing his reputation as one of the game’s all-time big game pitchers.

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