If Yohander Mendez doesn’t make the Texas Rangers’ roster next spring, that might be it for him with the club that signed him as a 16-year-old in 2011.
He will be out of minor-league options after this season, meaning that if he isn’t one of the 25 players March 28, 2019, against the Chicago Cubs, he will be either on the disabled list or on the waiver wire.
After his mid-June slip-up in Kansas City, Mendez emerged Sunday from the hole he dug for himself to embark upon the most important stretch of a career still in its infancy.