Disgraced and suspended former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez is planning a return to Major League Baseball in the 2015 season, according to Yahoo! Sports.com.
The website added the soon-to-be 39-year-old infielder is now spending his days exercising at least twice a day and running at a nearby park. Soon, he plans to begin re-acquainting himself with the feel of swinging a bat. Even when Rodriguez finally decided to drop his lawsuit against major league baseball over their Biogenesis investigation and subsequent suspension, it was all part of his plan to make a comeback.
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Yahoo reported that Rodriguez moved on Friday to drop a medical malpractice against Yankees team doctor Christopher Ahmad, which is another step in that direction.
The Yankees are on the hook to pay Rodriguez $21 million next season should he actually find a way to make it to the diamond. By the start of the next spring training, it will be 17 months since he last took a major league at-bat, not to mention he will be attempting to do so on two surgically-repaired hips.
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But in typical, undeterred A-Rod fashion, Rodriguez seems unfazed by it all, with his attorney Alan Ripka telling reporters this week "he absolutely wants to play for the Yankees. While getting ready for the Yankees season, Alex wanted no legal distractions of any sort. He wanted to be bigger than that, for the sake of removing legal distractions for the Yankees, the fans and himself."
As news of Rodriguez dropping the last of his suits made its way around Yankee Stadium on Friday, manager Joe Girardi told reporters of his one-time star he is "under contract, so you kind of expect him to be back," though he was just as quick to suggest no one really knows what he might be able to bring to the table.
"Obviously sitting out a year, as players have seen, is not the easiest thing to do," he said. "As a player, you have to try to stay as prepared as you can, doing whatever it takes to be ready. But what we do here is we worry about the year we're in."
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