Back in late December, we heard Melvin Mora had elected to hang up the cleats for the final time and retire. Today, his agent Eric Goldschmidt told Ken Rosenthal and Jon Morosi of FOXSports that Mora had not retired and intended to play in 2012.

Mora signed with the Diamondbacks prior to this last season, but was never able to establish his game and was subsequently released in June.

In 41 games with the Diamondbacks this season, Mora was hitting 230/.246/.278 with 0 home runs and 16 RBIs.

In his career, Mora totaled 1503 hits and 171 homers, while posting a .277 avg in  1556 games or 5422 at-bats.

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