Mar 31, 2009 5:29 PM EST

Cleveland pitcher Juan Lara will be back in a minor league uniform this week after he was nearly killed in a car crash in November of 2007.

His car had stopped at a traffic light when it was hit by a speeding motorcycle in his native Dominican Republic.

Lara was left with severe brain trauma, a fractured spine, two broken ribs, a broken arm and punctured lung.

Via ESPN