Why Miguel Rojas could reconsider retirement if Dodgers win again

But then this year’s regular season began, and the 37-year-old got reabsorbed in the rhythms of the campaign.

He has hit well over the opening month, entering Friday with a .341 batting average. He has also played more than expected, filling in at second base and shortstop with Tommy Edman and Mookie Betts injured, and been encouraged about how he’s felt physically.

“My body is telling me that I can still do it,” he said. “And I know it’s just been a month. Like I said, I don’t know how I’m gonna feel in September, October, November, because we’ll go through a lot. But right now, I feel great. So I’m keeping myself in that positive mindset of winning and coming back.”

Rojas said his body is feeling good early in the season, but he will reevaluate how he’s doing physically in the fall. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

During the first couple weeks, Rojas’ focus was more centered on reaching 1,000 career hits, a mark he eclipsed April 20 in Colorado.

It was only then, as he sought new personal goals to fuel his daily motivation, that he began to contemplate his future again.

“I started thinking about, ‘You know what, this is a real possibility of making a deep run and winning another championship,’” he said. “And then what’s gonna happen? I can’t really go home with the opportunity to do something legendary, trying to go four in a row.”

So, in his own mind at least, he carved out his retirement caveat.

“I wanted to keep that as a personal goal: ‘I want to win again, so I can come back,’” he said. “If I keep reaching or I keep going toward that, I feel like I’m gonna be better.”

Even if the team wins again, Rojas noted he would have to talk to his family and the organization.

He added that he wouldn’t keep playing for any team other than the Dodgers.

“If they’re open to it, and we finish on good terms for me physically and for them to believe that I can still play, I will be happy to reconsider coming back and trying to go for four in a row,” he said.

After all, no MLB team other than the Yankees has ever completed a four-peat — and it’s been almost three-quarters of a century since they last did it with five in a row from 1949 to 1953.

“I [don’t want to miss] the opportunity of being on this team after winning three in a row,” he said, adding: “I don’t want to have any regrets after I retire.”