Carlos Delgado isn’t done yet.
The former Mets first baseman told MLB.com
he’s rehabbing from hip surgery and if he is able to get back to 100 percent he will be back in the big leagues.
“If I am healthy, I will find a way,” Delgado told the website from the Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy.
“I know how to play. I don’t want to retire. The reason why I put myself through three surgeries in 18 months is because I want to play. Otherwise, I would have just hung it up.”
Delgado signed with the injury-riddled Red Sox last September, but while playing every other day for Boston’s Triple-A affiliate he experienced pain in the left hip and shut it down.
Delgado considered retirement but opted for surgery with Dr. Marc Philippon, the surgeon who operated on Alex Rodriguez’s hip.
“The rehab is coming along, and I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing,” Delgado said. “I would say within the next couple of weeks I will have a better idea of when I’m going to be ready because we are going to start sprinting a little bit and I’m going to take batting practice a little bit more often. Right now, it’s every other day or every two days just because you just go gradually into it.”
Delgado, 38, has not played in the majors since May 10, 2009 in the Mets’ 8-4 win over the Pirates.