Rockies' Kris Bryant to have back procedure, no timetable for his return

And the injury saga for one of the Colorado Rockies’ highest paid players in franchise history drags on.

On Wednesday, it was reported that Bryant will undergo a back procedure to relieve pain according to MLB.com's Thomas Harding.

Bryan is slated to fly to Los Angeles on Thursday for a procedure designed to relieve the pain that has hampered his rehab from the chronic lumbar degenerative disk disease that originally sent him to the IL.

“It’s pretty intense,” Bryant said on MLB.com. “But it’s not a crazy recovery period. They actually go into the bone and try to kill the nerves to the vertebrae.”

This season, Bryant has appeared in just 11 games, and in his four years in Colorado, injuries have limited his playing time in every season.

While Bryant said the procedure is an intense and painful one, he’s supposedly going to be able to pick up his rehab right away, though he, nor the Rockies can say when he might return to the lineup, or any planned rehab stints in the minor leagues.

“Obviously, they’ll try to control your expectations, just because nothing is 100 percent,” Bryant said to MLB.com. “Everybody reacts differently to it.

“I just told them, I want to do everything I can. So let’s do this. Let’s do that. I’m good. Just keep putting needles and knives in my back. I’m OK with it. So I’ve had a lot of needles in my back the last two weeks.”

Bryant is 33 and still has three more seasons left on his contract which he signed at the beginning of 2022. 

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