Right-handed pitcher Ian Snell is considering coming out of his brief retirement his agent told Evan Drellich of MLB.com.

“He told the world he’s retiring, and that’s what we thought was going to happen,” Snell’s agent Joe Sroba said on Friday.

The 29-year-old plans could be made within a week and a return to the St. Louis Cardinals is a possibility.

Snell pitched in two innings in one Grapefruit League game with the Cardinals this Spring.  In Snell’s seven Major League seasons, mostly with the Pittsburgh Pirates, he appeared in 152 appearances (136 starts), where the right-hander was 38-53 with a 4.80 ERA and 1.549 WHIP. Snell was 0-5 with a 6.41 ERA in 46.1 innings with the Mariners in 2010.