MLB: Prior plans to pitch again in future

Yea…what Criswell said.

Now there is no date set, but Prior is resolute about his return.

“I wouldn’t have done the surgery if I didn’t think I wasn’t going to pitch again,” Prior said. “If I decided I didn’t want to play, I just would have let it heal on its own and move forward. I feel like I can pitch. The good thing I’ve got going is I’m still young and I want to play. I want to pitch at a high level again and that is one of the reasons why I did the surgery.”

...Prior said it will take at least six weeks for the surgery to heal, at which point he will be re-evaluated. He couldn’t say when he would be able to return to a mound but is hopeful of playing catch before next spring.

“I don’t think it will be until February,” Prior said. “That is almost nine full months of rehab. Knowing what I have already gone through and the extent of the surgeries that I’ve had, I don’t see it taking that long. As far as getting back on the mound, that might be a different story but just picking up a ball and playing catch, that should be before that.”