Daniel Bard is planning a comeback to baseball next season.
The reliever is out for the 2024 season after a pair of surgeries. Bard underwent arthroscopic surgery to fix a meniscus tear in his left knee in February.
While rehabbing, he went down with a forearm injury and underwent a season-ending flexor tendon repair.
Six weeks removed from the arm surgery, the 38-year-old said he wants to give his career another go.
\"Going into the surgery, I was probably 50-50,\" Bard said. \"When you first find out you need surgery and you are going to miss 12 months, there is that moment of disappointment. You kind of get the wind knocked out of you. But having a few weeks to think about it and watch baseball, it really makes me want to see if I\'ve got it next spring.\"
Bard, who turns 39 in June, is in the second season of an extension he signed with the Colorado Rockies.