Danny Farquhar is planning on pitching in the majors again: ‘I think I'll be back there one day'

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That Danny Farquhar is talking and walking and laughing and throwing out ceremonial first pitches is incredible in its own right.

But Farquhar is aiming to do something even more unlikely for someone who suffered a brain hemorrhage: He wants to go back to work. And work is no small thing for Farquhar, considering he's a professional athlete competing at the highest level of his sport.

Though after all he's already been through, it seems that there might be no odds Farquhar cannot overcome.

He returned to Guaranteed Rate Field on Friday, six weeks to the day that he suffered that brain hemorrhage, to throw out the ceremonial first pitch with his family, doctors and hospital staff and White Sox teammates gathered around him. It was an amazing display of the recovery Farquhar has made.

Doctors have said he'll be cleared to pitch in the big leagues again, though it won't be this season as he continues to recover.

But Farquhar said he's already been cleared to throw a baseball and that he's been working out. He's trying to get back to a major league mound and throw some pitches that are a little less ceremonial.

"I hope so," Farquhar said when asked if he'll pitch again. "I haven’t thrown a baseball yet besides that first pitch today, so I don’t know how everything’s going to respond.

"I’m excited, too, I’ve been cleared to throw a baseball, I’m just not sure when it’s going to happen. I’ve been doing workouts for like, three and a half weeks now. My physical therapist was actually back there, Curtis Sargent, and he’s been pushing me and this week I went all four days. I couldn’t go in on Memorial Day because they were closed, but I’ve been working out for an hour and a half. It’s not strength related, I’m not allowed to do heavy weights because that raises your blood pressure and that’s one thing that I need to be super careful with is blood pressure. But as far as aerobically I’m feeling really strong. I just need to get to that point where I can — big league level compared to other levels of baseball, it’s a big difference.

"I think I’ll be back there one day."

After fighting through his recovery to get to this point, it seems as if Farquhar will be able to do anything he works at. Among his teammates, he had a reputation as a hard-worker and a fighter before this latest battle. He's gone through plenty from a baseball standpoint to just get a stable job in a major league bullpen.

The faith his family and his teammates had in him to come back from the aneurysm will surely carry over to his quest to return to the majors.

“I’ve known Danny for a long time,” his wife, Lexie, said. “And every time someone has said no he can’t, he’s always said, ‘Yes I can.’ So from the moment they told me every issue that was going on, I was like, ‘It might be a rough road, but it’s one that’s going to end with him doing what he loves and him doing it his way.’ Because he always has.”

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