Email a copy of 'Rangers Promote Yohander Mendez' to a friend
Loading ...
By Steve Adams | at
Email a copy of 'Rangers Promote Yohander Mendez' to a friend
MLB Trade Rumors is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, MLB or MLB.com
hide arrows scroll to top
firstbleed
Damn, I guess this means he wasn’t one of the PTBNL in the Lucory deal. Congrats Mendez!
Aflurry88
Thank god. Honestly hoping its Gallo because he’s just losing more and more value in the minors and he has really done anything to impress me personally. He comes off as the second coming of Russell Branyon.
MiamiPhins34
You HOPE it’s Gallo? I don’t think he’ll pan out either, but to hope they got rid of him as a PTBNL is just nuts. He would still have good value as part of a package this winter.
No Soup For Yu!
Russell Branyan at least finished his career with an above average slash line (.814 OPS; 113 OPS+) and was worth about 12.0 fWAR over the course of his career. TBH, I don’t know if Gallo can even muster that. He just screams “bust”, and while I don’t agree with your hope that he’s the PTBNL in the Lucroy trade, I do hope the Rangers trade him for someone more valuable before an extended run at the MLB level craters his value.
reaux59
Chris Davis and Adrian Gonzalez were once appraised as expendable by the Rangers, too. They’ve turned out okay.
Gallo reminds me a lot of Davis during his Texas years, raw power with good agility and no sense of the strike zone. Gallo’s still young. Give him time to develop a sense of the strike zone while the team has Major League talent around him.