Nine months after abruptly retiring at just 28 years old, former Angels reliever Ty Buttrey announced in a Twitter Spaces event on Sunday that he plans to make a return to baseball in 2022.
In a lengthy Instagram post last April, Buttrey cited a lack of motivation as the reasoning behind his decision to walk away, saying that he lost the drive to continue playing after accomplishing his primary goal of reaching the majors. During his chat today, though, he said that his passion for baseball started to come back while coaching kids during his time off and progressively grew stronger as time went went, eventually reaching the point where he decided for sure that he wanted to make his return.