The former All-Star reliever Ugueth Urbina was released from a Venezuelan prison Saturday after serving five and half years of a 14-year sentence for the attempted murder of several workers at his family’s ranch in October 2005, according to several reports from Venezuela.

Urbina, 38, had been accused of pouring gasoline on the workers and then attacking them with a machete. He was sentenced to state prison in Guarico, in the northern part of Venezuela, in 2007. Venezuelan newspapers said Urbina was released early because of good behavior. During his time in prison, Urbina started three charitable organizations in an effort to rehabilitate his image.

“Finally with my father,” Urbina’s 19-year-old son, Juan, wrote on Twitter. Juan Urbina, a minor league pitcher in the Mets organization, also posted several photos of him and his father.

Urbina has not spoken publicly since his release.

Several Venezuelan newspapers speculated that Urbina, who had said in interviews from prison that he was still in playing shape, could attempt a comeback with the Leones del Caracas, his hometown winter league team, where he began his professional career. Urbina was part of a Leones bullpen in 1994-95 that recorded 40.2 consecutive scoreless innings, a record that still stands.