Canadian infielder Brett Lawrie has not appeared in Major League Baseball since leaving a July 21, 2016 game as a member of the Chicago White Sox.

The Langley, B.C., native told Sekeres & Price on TSN Radio 1040 Vancouver that he has been on the sidelines due to a misdiagnosis and the damage that was caused to his body as a result.

“The type of injury that I sustained and what it was, I’ve said it before it, was the orthotics and what they did to my body and how they told my body to move.” Lawrie told Sekeres & Price.  “Once I took those out, my body was stuck in a specific way and I was not moving and getting in and out and doing things properly.”

Lawrie attending Spring Training with the White Sox in 2017, but was released in early March as he was still not up to full speed and suffering from the lingering effects of the injury.

“If the homework was done before you gave me these you would’ve told me not to do this, that we have other things to alleviate the stuff that you have going on,” said Lawrie.  

“Instead you took a bad route and you don’t know the body properly.  I’m not blaming anybody because I’m the guy that put them in my shoes, but I am going to say that I don’t think the right minds were behind this.  They didn’t do me any service; I didn’t make myself like this.”

Lawrie is now concentrating on working his way back to the majors and, after experimenting with many doctors and medical personnel that were not able to help him, he’s made progress thanks to a member of the Arizona Coyotes staff.

“Right now I’m working with a guy, Dr. Connor Ryan, he works with the Arizona Coyotes and he understands what I’ve got going on and since working with him in the past 13 sessions, I’m feeling different than I have in the past year of seeing everyone else.”

While he may finally be on the comeback trail, Lawrie is aware that the sporting world continues to move and that he’s going to have to bide his time and get fully healthy before he can return at full strength.

“I know Spring Training ’s coming, I know baseball is continuing to go and I want to be a part of that, but I can’t just run outside and do 10 jumping jacks and think that I’m going to be where I am,” said Lawrie. 

“I need to be patient and, athletically, patient is hard for me because I’m a guy that just likes to get out there, run and gun and do my thing, but I feel very positive in the direction that I’m going.”

Known as a high energy player, the 28-year-old does not believe 2016 will go down as the last time he played on a Major League Baseball field.

“I wouldn’t be going through this every single day just to get by,” said Lawrie.  “I’m hungry and if I had been let go because I was a bad baseball player then maybe I would’ve thought things differently.

“I didn’t get released because I’m a bad baseball player, I got released because I had an injury that staff didn’t know how to fix and they were tired of dealing with it because it was lingering and no one knew how to fix it.”  

“I will play professional baseball again and do what I’m supposed to do, because I have a lot left in the tank.”

Lawrie has also appeared with the Toronto Blue Jays and Oakland Athletics over the course of his six-year MLB career.  He has played 588 career games and has hit 71 homers and 253 RBI with a .261 average.