Chris Young
Baseball
Highland Park High School
BiographyChristopher Ryan Young (born May 25, 1979 in Dallas, TX], USA) is a Major League Baseball player. Young played minor league baseball in the Montreal Expos organization in 2003 after 3 years in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. Then just prior to the 2004 season the Expos traded him to the Texas Rangers where he debuted late in 2004. The San Diego Padres acquired Chris Young from the Rangers in a 6 player deal on January 5, 2006. Chris Young was drafted by baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates (3rd round of the 2000 amateur draft). At 6'10", the only player in Major League Baseball as of 2006 who overshadows Young along the vertical dimension is Jon Rauch, at 6'11". Both Randy Johnson and Andy Sisco are each 6'10".
He was the first male athlete to be named Ivy League Rookie of the Year in two sports (basketball and baseball 1999). When he signed a $1.65 million contract with Pittsburgh after the August 2000 draft he surrendered his amateur status and his college athletic career in both sports at Princeton University. His athletic career was not entirely on hold because he was able to get some low minor league experience before completing his degree at Princeton in June 2002 and becoming a full-time professional athlete.
2006 marked Chris Young's breakthrough season. End of June talk was vociferous about his strong late bid for an All-Star nod. In his first 6 starts after Memorial Day, he improved his record from 3-3, 4.32 ERA to 7-3, 2.97 allowing only 4 earned runs over 38 2/3 innings. He was one of five NL players selected for the fan "Final Vote" to determine the final official selection for the 2006 All-Star game, which he lost to Nomar Garciaparra.
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