Toronto fans know John Gibbons well from his 16 years in the Blue Jays organization. But the baseball lifer has also forged strong ties with the Mets, Royals and Padres.



Which explains why he picked those three teams when he sent out his résumé last week. Now he’s hoping one of them will pick him to be their next manager.



Fired a year ago by the Blue Jays, Gibbons is an unabashedly old-school manager. He is 57. He realizes many in baseball would consider him a long-shot candidate, given the trend toward younger managers with little or no experience in the job.



“For guys like me, that doesn’t help,” he said.



But after a year on the sidelines, he’s feeling the itch to get back into baseball. He’d like to work in the game, preferably as a manager, for at least several more years, he said in a telephone interview with The Athletic from his home near Corpus Christi, Tex.



“I’ve...