Sixteen-year-old Jhostynxon Garcia just wanted anyone to say “yes.”
That’s all he wanted for more than a year. He spent too many difficult months running, sweating, and pouring his soul into his tryouts. Those months would pass without an answer to Garcia’s plea. There wasn’t much time left for MLB organizations to give him one. The 2019 International Free Agency (IFA) Period was approaching, and it looked as though teams would be spending their limited international pool money elsewhere.
Maybe his effort just wasn’t enough. Heck, maybe no amount of effort would have been enough.