Cesar Tordesillas

Former Boston Red Sox starter Curt Schilling revealed that some ex-members of the team tried to convince him to use performance-enhancing drugs to help him get healthy and extend his baseball career.

Schilling signed a one-year contract with Boston in 2008 but did not pitch that season due to a shoulder injury. He officially retired from baseball in March 2009 and now works as ESPN analyst.

"At the end of my career, in 2008 when I had gotten hurt, there was a conversation that I was involved in, in which it was brought to my attention that this is a potential path I might want to pursue," Schilling told ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd.

Schilling said the conversation was uncomfortable because it came up in a clubhouse conversation and could be overheard by several teammates.

And it was suggested to me that at my age and in my situation, why not? What did I have to lose?" Because if I wasn't going to get healthy, it didn't matter. And if I did get healthy, great," Schilling said.

He, however, declined to identify who was involved in the conversation, or whether it was a player, coach or staff member.

Schilling later tweeted that it "wasn't anyone in uniform, nor the baseball ops group."

In a radio interview, Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer, who was working for Boston in 2008 along with and Cubs president Theo Epstein and Schilling, denied that he and Epstein had such a conversation with the pitcher.

"The first I ever heard of that was this morning when I saw it, so clearly, no, it didn't ring true to me at all," Hoyer said.

"I can tell you it would be preposterous that Theo or I would be involved in that. So I can comment for the two of us. I obviously wasn't there. I don't know the story he's talking about so I can't comment on the rest of it," he added.

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Schilling: Ex-Red Sox Members Tried to Convince Me to Use PEDs