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Chris Young
Young throwing a fastball during pregame warmup.
San Diego Padres – No. 32
Starting Pitcher
Bats: RightThrows: Right
debut
August 24, 2004, for the Texas Rangers
Career statistics (through July 5, 2007)
Win-Loss	34-17
Earned run average	3.51
Strikeouts	427
Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams
Texas Rangers (2004–2005) San Diego Padres (2006– present)

Christopher Ryan Young (born May 25, 1979 in Dallas, Texas, United States of America) is an American Major League Baseball player who debuted on August 24, 2004 for the Texas Rangers of the American League. Young, a 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) right-handed starting pitcher, is currently in his fourth Major League season and second season with the San Diego Padres of the National League. He was elected to the 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game as a first time All-Star via the All-Star Final Vote.

Young was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the August 2000 draft. He was in the Pirates, Montreal Expos and Texas Rangers minor league systems before debuting with the Rangers in August of 2004. Young's professional baseball career took off in the 2006 season. He was named the National League Pitcher of the Month for the month of June, and he was the Major League leader in both opponent batting average and road earned run average. Additionally, he extended his undefeated road start streak to twenty-four games, and he secured the only Padres win in the team's 3-1 2006 National League Division Series win over the St. Louis Cardinals.

Prior to his professional baseball career, Young excelled in both baseball and basketball for Princeton University, and he became the Ivy League's first male two-sport Rookie of the Year. Earlier, he had been an outstanding athlete and scholar at Highland Park High School in University Park, Texas. Young's debut made him the first Princeton University baseball player to start a Major League game since 1961 . His All-Star game selection made him the sixth Ivy League Major League Baseball All-Star.

High school career

Young attended Highland Park High School where he excelled in both basketball and baseball. He lettered three times in basketball in a career in which he scored over a thousand career points, accumulated five hundred career rebounds and 200 career blocked shots. He was a two-year letterman in baseball, compiling a 14–3 record with 180 strikeouts. During his senior year, he was first-team All-State selection in basketball and baseball. In basketball, he averaged 16 points, 12 rebounds and 3 blocked shots a game, and in baseball, he had an 8–3 record, with a 1.70 ERA and 95 strikeouts in 80 innings pitched. He was District Most Valuable Player in basketball as a senior and he led his baseball team to win the state championship the same year.

Collegiate career

1998–1999 season

He was the first male athlete to be named Ivy League Rookie of the Year in two sports—basketball and baseball. He was a unanimous selection for both awards.

In addition to being named Rookie of the Year, Young was named second-team All-Ivy in basketball and was basketball Rookie of the Week each of the final six weeks. He was named Ivy League Player of the Year and a freshman All-America by Basketball Weekly. He was a seven-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week. During the season he set Princeton freshman records for points and rebounds by averaging 12.9 points and 5.3 rebounds a game. Young played well in tournaments including a 62% field goal shooting performance in three NIT games, highlighted by a season-high twenty-four points in an NIT win at North Carolina State against the NC State Wolfpack. He had double-digit scoring in twenty-one games, including each of the final eleven and seventeen of the final nineteen games. He also had 39 points, 19 rebounds and 15 assists in three games at the Rainbow Classic basketball tournament.

Young led the Princeton baseball team and the Ivy League with a 2.38 ERA. During this performance he allowed only one home run over the course of 150 batters faced. He was twice named Ivy League Rookie of the Week.

1999–2000 Season

He concluded his college basketball career by starting every game of the 1999-2000 season. Among his accomplishments that season were 22 double-digit scoring games, breaking his own single-season school record for blocked shots with 87, and leading the team average in scoring, with 13.8 points per game, rebounding (6.3), 87 blocked shots and 40 steals. He was also second on the team with 105 assists. Young had the highest rebounding average of any Princeton player since 1978 and he was the thirteenth player in school history to reach 100 assists in a season. His best game performances included a twenty-point game on the road against the eleventh ranked Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball|, a career-high thirty points against Harvard, and a school record of nine blocked shots against the Ohio University Bobcats. He finished his college basketball career with 801 points, 350 rebounds and 142 blocks.

During his sophomore season in 2000, he was Ivy League's leading pitcher with a 1.82 ERA ovreall and 1.05 figure in conference games. He compiled a perfect record of 5-0 in eight appearances, with 52 strikeouts in 49⅓ innings. Young was a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League baseball selection, and he led the Tigers to their first Ivy League title since 1996. Young pitched a complete game and struck out seven batters in the 5–2 win in the championship series opener against Dartmouth.

Professional status

When Young 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 basketball and baseball at Princeton University. However, he held out on signing until he gained assurances that he would be able to complete his collegiate education. His athletic career was not entirely on hold as an upperclassman, and he was able to get some low minor league experience before completing his degree at Princeton in politics in June 2002 and becoming a full-time professional athlete. He played class A minor league baseball after his junior year. Young then completed his senior thesis, entitled "The Impact of Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball on Racial Stereotypes in America: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Stories about Race in the New York Times" while commuting on minor league buses as a player for the Hickory Crawdads. Young was also offered a two-year guaranteed contract to play basketball for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association in 2002 by fellow Princeton alum and King's President Geoff Petrie.

Professional baseball career

Young was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 3rd round of the 2000 amateur draft. Young was signed to a deal on September 6, 2000. After a few years of minor league service, he was traded to the Montreal Expos’ organization. The Expos traded him to the Texas Rangers, for whom he eventually made his Major League debut. After less than two seasons with the Rangers he was traded to the San Diego Padres.

Minor Leagues

In 2001, Young went 5-3, 4.12 in 12 starts for the Hickory Crawdads in the Class-A South Atlantic League, including two complete games. In 2002, Young helped the Crawdads to league title with a 11-9, 3.11 ERA in 26 starts. In fifteen straight starts from April 16 and July 4, 2002, Young earned a decision. He allowed more than three earned runs in just two of 26 starts. Opposing batters hit .234. He was traded to the Montreal Expos with Jon Searles for pitcher Matt Herges in a post season trade. Young began the 2003 season on the disabled list before joining the Brevard County Manatees of the Florida State League towards the end of April. He posted a 5-2 record, with a 1.62 ERA, and held opposing batters to a .150 batting average in eight starts. His season was highlighted by an eight-inning, one-hit, no walk, eight strikeout performance against the Fort Myers Miracle on May 11, 2003. This start capped a 3-0, 0.47 ERA start to the season.

In June 2003, Chris was promoted to the Harrisburg Senators of the Double-A Eastern League. He went 4-4 with a 4.01 ERA in 15 starts. In July, he went 3-0 and finished with an ERA of 3.03 over five starts. His season highlighted by an eight-strikeout final outing on August 30, 2003 against the Norwich Navigators and a win on July 27, 2003 against the Reading Phillies in which he threw seven shutout innings. Chris was traded from the Montreal Expos organization to the Texas Rangers organization on April 3, 2004 in a preseason deal along with Josh McKinley for Einar Diaz and Justin Echols. He started the season with the Frisco RoughRiders of the Texas League where he went 6-5 with a 4.48 ERA in 18 starts. The only two home runs he allowed in his final twelve starts and 81 innings with the RoughRiders occurred on July 3, 2004 versus Round Rock. His best strikeout performance was 8 on May 9, 2004 against El Paso.

Young was promoted to the Triple-A Oklahoma RedHawks of the Pacific Coast League in late July and went a perfect 3-0 with a 1.48 ERA in five starts. During this brief stint he allowed only nine walks while compiling thirty-four strikeouts and he held opposition batters to a .189 average. He posted 4 quality starts and in his fifth start he only allowed 2 runs. The club club was 4-1 in his PCL starts. The only loss was due to a blown save with a 4-2, 9th inning lead on August 7 2004 vs. Tacoma Rainiers in a game where Young allowed no earned runs. He was named Pacific Coast League Pitcher of the Week for August 16th to 22nd after his last start on August 18 2004 against the Memphis Redbirds. Young took a no-hitter into the sixth inning of his 2nd Triple-A start on August 2 2004 against the Sacramento River Cats.

2004 season

Young debuted with the Rangers on August 24, 2004 against the Minnesota Twins. He pitched five and two-thirds innings, giving up four hits and three earned runs, while striking out four, and walking three batters. Young exited the game trailing 3-0, but was rescued by a comeback walk-off 5-4 win.

This debut made Young the first Princeton baseball player to start a Major League game at any position since Dave Sisler (son of Hall of Famer George Sisler and brother of Dick Sisler) gave up six earned runs in just over four innings on August 27, 1961 in the second game of a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers. The game also marked the first appearance in a Major League game by a Princeton baseball player since Robert Tufts played his final game for the Kansas City Royals on May 6, 1983. Other Princeton baseball players who played in the Major Leagues include Moe Berg, Charlie Caldwell, and John Easton. The other Ivy League players to have played for the Texas Rangers are Pete Broberg (Dartmouth College) and Doug Glanville (University of Pennsylvania).

The debut, which occurred in a home game at Ameriquest Field in Arlington, Texas served as a homecoming for Young who grew up in Dallas, Texas and went to Highland Park High School. With his debut, Young became the second-tallest player in Major League Baseball, only an inch shorter than the 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) Jon Rauch. Three other current and previous pitchers--Randy Johnson, Andrew Sisco, and Eric Hillman--are also 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m). He became the tallest pitcher in Rangers history, surpassing the 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) right-handed pitcher Mike Smithson. After becoming part of the starting rotation, he made seven starts and compiled a 3–2 record with a 4.71 ERA. Young signed a 3- year contract through 2007 on November 19 2004.

Young's first Major League decision came during his second start in an August 29 2004 loss to the Baltimore Orioles. His first win came in his third start on September 4 2004 against the Boston Red Sox. His fifth start was a six shutout inning performance in a 1-0 win against the Anaheim Angels on September 19 2004. This was the first Ranger 1-0 victory since August 25 2000 against the Toronto Blue Jays, a stretch of 669 games.. The club went 5-2 during his starts in his brief 2004 stint with the club.

2005 season

Young was one of three rookies on the opening day roster. It was his first time being named to the opening day roster. He made thirty-one starts in 2005 with the Rangers, compiling a 12–7 record with a 4.26 ERA. His twelve victories tied Kevin Brown's record for most wins by a Rangers rookie. His season started slowly with seven earned runs allowed 7.1 innings pitched (8.59 ERA) over first two starts. However, over the course of eleven starts from April 17 2005-June 13 2005 he lowered his ERA to a season-low 2.78 by going 6-2, 2.18 in 70.1 innings pitched over that stretch. This included a month of May where he went went 3-0, in five starts with a 1.42 ERA that was third-best among all qualifying Major Leaguers for the month. May included his season high 13.2 scoreless innings recorded in May 3 - May 9 2005. He had subsequent hot and cold streaks (2-4, 9.07 in nine starts from June 20 2005-August 2 2005 and 2.53 ERA over his final nine starts). He closed out the season wining his final four decisions, which was a personal best.

May 9th was one of two times Young came within an inning of a shutout by pitching eight scoreless innings; August 17 2007 against the Cleveland Indians was the other. Young recorded a personal best eight strikeouts in a seven inning no decision on June 2 2007 at the Detroit Tigers. Young's closest no-hitter was 5.2 innings of hitless pitching against the Houston Astros before allowing a Craig Biggio single in the sixth inning on June 25 2007 at Houston. Over the course of the season Young was the beneficiary of the 2nd-highest run support in the majors, trailing only David Wells of the Boston Red Sox. However, he surrendered three runs or less in 22 of 31 starts. After a 2005 season where he went 5-0, 3.47 in 11 games during the day and 7-7, 4.71 in 20 games at night, he had a career 8-1 record with a 3.31 ERA in 15 day games and 7-8, 5.05 in 23 games at night.

Young produced many impressive rookie statistics. He ranked in the top five among qualifying Major League rookies in several statistical categories: strikeouts (second, 137), wins (tied for third, 12), ERA (fourth, 4.26), starts (fifth, 31) and innings pitched (fifth, 164.2). He also tied Rangers rookie club records: wins (12, Edwin Correa in 1986 and Kevin Brown in 1989) and pre All-Star break wins (8, Jeff Zimmerman in 1999 and Jose Guzman in 1986). In fact, as a rookie he ranked fifth among all American League pitchers with 7.5 strikeouts per 9.0 innings. Young, the former Princeton Tiger athlete, started seven games alongside former University of Pennsylvania infielder Mark DeRosa making them the second Ivy League tandem in the last 50 years to start for the same team, the other being Ron Darling (Yale University) and Bill Almon (Brown University) of the 1987 New York Mets. Despite this success, however, he was a key part of an offseason trade that sent him - along with Terrmel Sledge and Adrian Gonzalez - to the San Diego Padres for starting pitcher Adam Eaton, middle reliever Akinori Otsuka, and minor-league catcher Billy Killian.

2006 season

Regular season

2006 marked Chris Young's breakthrough season. His ERA continued its downward trend, falling to 3.46 over 31 starts (6th best in the National League), and he recorded a career high 169 strikeouts. He finished with an 11–5 win-loss record. Young led all Major League pitchers with a 2.41 ERA on the road in 15 starts. He also led the majors by allowing just 6.72 hits per 9 innings pitched and a .206 opponent batting average. During the season, Young won National League Pitcher of the month once, took 3 no-hitters into the sixth inning or beyond, and extended his undefeated road start streak by 15 to 24. This road undefeated streak of 24 made Young one of only three pitchers in Major League history to have gone at least 23-straight road starts without a loss: Allie Reynolds set the record at 25 straight road starts spanning the 1948 and 1949 seasons that Russ Meyer almost matched with his 24 straight road contests spanning the 1953 and 1954 seasons.

In his first six starts after Memorial Day, he improved his record from a 3–3 record, and a 4.32 ERA to a 7–3 record, and 2.97 ERA after allowing only four earned runs over 38 2/3 innings. This led to him being one of five NL players selected for the fan "All-Star Final Vote" to determine the final official selection for the 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. He lost this vote to Nomar Garciaparra. Nonetheless, his strong June performance during which he allowed 16 hits and 13 walks over 30 2/3 June innings, maintained a 1.17 E.R.A and struck out 34 earned him the National League Pitcher of the Month award. His five starts in June were highlighted by a career high twelve strikeout performance on June 9, 2006 against the Florida Marlins and a June 21, 2006 win over his former team, the Texas Rangers.

On September 22, 2006, Young had a no-hitter through 8 1/3 innings of the game against the Pittsburgh Pirates before pinch hitter Joe Randa hit a two-run home run. This would have been the first no-hitter in San Diego Padres history. It was the first time a Padre had taken a no hitter into the ninth inning since Andy Ashby on September 5 1997 vs. the Atlanta Braves (8.0 innings). The Padres are joined by the New York Mets, Colorado Rockies and Tampa Bay Devil Rays as the only franchises who have never pitched no-hitters. Young left the game to a standing ovation and the relief staff closed out the 6–2 Padres victory. Young had been on pace for a perfect game through 5 and 2/3rds innings. This was the 20th one-hitter in Padres history and the twelfth time a Padre took a no-hitter into the 8th inning. Young also took a no-hitter into the eighth inning on May 30, 2006 against the Colorado Rockies as a prelude to his June performance. In that game, which marked the first time a pitcher took a no hitter into eighth inning during the 2006 season, he surrendered a double to Brad Hawpe on his first pitch of the eighth inning and ninety-ninth of the game. During Young's next start on June 4 2006 at Pittsburgh he did not allow a hit for the first 5 1/3 innings, making him one of only two pitchers (Steve Trachsel—June 20–25, 2002) to have consecutive starts with at least five hitless innings since the 2000 season. Young has worn the number 32 as a Padre although he wore 49 as a Ranger.

Post-season

He concluded his season by winning his first and only post season start. On October 7, 2006 he earned a 3–1 victory in the 2006 National League Divisional Series Game 3 against the St. Louis Cardinals. He pitched 6 2/3rds shutout innings, struck out nine, walked two and allowed four hits. It remains the Padres' only victory in ten post-season games against the Cardinals. The Padres lost the series three games to one. Young's 6–0 2006 road performance was one of forty-nine undefeated road seasons with at least five victories by a pitcher since post-season play began in 1903. However, it was the first to be followed by a post-season road victory.

In November 2006, he traveled to Japan to take part in the Major League Baseball Japan All-Star Series. Young was the starter in an exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants which was memorable for the Major Leaguers' three run ninth inning rally to earn a tie. This game was the prelude to the 5-game series which began with three games at the Tokyo Dome and was followed by games in Osaka, Japan and Fukuoka, Japan. Young pitched the fourth game of the series. Young also blogged on behalf of mlb.com about daily life during the trip. He detailed visits with United States Ambassador to Japan Tom Schieffer, time in the Harajuku, and travels on the Bullet Train.

2007 season

In his 2007 debut on April 4, 2007, Young became the 435th different pitcher to surrender a home run to Barry Bonds when he surrendered Bonds' first of the season and the 735th of his career. The game marked Young's twenty fifth consecutive road start without a loss. Young was 9–0 during the streak, which ended in his subsequent road start on April 15, 2007 at Dodger Stadium in a 9–3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Allie Reynolds is the only other pitcher to go twenty-five road starts without a loss. Reynolds' twenty-five game streak spanned the 1948 and 1949 seasons. The last of the nine other pitchers to go twenty consecutive road starts without a loss was Greg Maddux who went twenty-two starts without a loss during the 1997 and 1998. Young's streak began on June 25, 2005, the date of the first of his last nine American League starts for the Texas Rangers.

On April 10, 2007, Chris Young signed a four-year contract extension with the Padres through the 2010 season that includes the already-in-progress 2007 season. The contract is reportedly worth $14.5 million with a club option for 2011 that could increase the value to $23 million.

On June 16, 2007, Young threw a pitch that hit Chicago Cubs All-star first baseman Derrek Lee on the back of the upper left arm. The day before the fracus, Alfonso Soriano homered off David Wells and upset the Padres with his admiration and celebration of his own work. The errant pitch, which seemed directed towards Lee's head, nicked Lee's left hand near his surgically repaired wrist. After Lee was hit by pitch, players exchanged words that Lee did not like and an altercation ensued in which both benches emptied. Marcus Giles interceded to keep the fight from getting serious. Young, Lee, Jake Peavy and Gerald Perry were ejected. On June 18, 2007, Young and Lee were suspended 5 games each for their roles in the brawl and Cubs hitting coach Gerald Perry was suspended 3 games. All suspended parties were fined as were Peavy and Brian Giles. All suspensions were scheduled to begin Tuesday June 19 2007. Appealed suspensions are held in abeyance until the process is complete. Lee and Young both appealed their suspensions. At the time of the scuffle in the fourth inning both pitchers were working on no hitters. Young was ejected. However, Carlos Zambrano continued his no hit bid into the 8th inning, but took the 1-0 loss by surrendering a home run.

On June 24 2007 Jake Peavy surrendered 3 earned runs in 5 innings which caused his ERA to rise from 1.98 to 2.14. This gave Young who had a 2.08 ERA the National League leading average for the first time in his career for one day. The next day, Brad Penny allowed only 1 earned run over 8 innings to take the lead with a 2.04 ERA.

On July 1 2007 Young was again nominated All-Star Final Vote by the fans, contending against Tom Gorzelanny, Roy Oswalt, Brandon Webb and Carlos Zambrano. The voting ended on Thursday, July 5th with Young defeating Carlos Zambrano of the Cubs in Monster All-Star Final Vote fan voting, earning a spot to represent the National League in the 2007 All-Star Game. The victory made Young the sixth Ivy League athlete named to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game following Lou Gehrig (Columbia University, New York Yankees, 1933-39); Red Rolfe (Dartmouth College, New York Yankees, 1937-40); Ron Darling (Yale University, New York Mets, 1985); Brad Ausmus (Dartmouth College, Detroit Tigers, 1999); and Mike Remlinger (Dartmouth College, Atlanta Braves, 2002). Young entered the All-Star break with the Major League lead in ERA and opponent batting average as well as an undefeated streak extending back to a May 12 2007 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.

Career statistics

Statistics accurate through July 9, 2007

Personal

Young's wife, Elizabeth (née Patrick), was also a member of the Princeton University class of 2002. Lester Patrick, the honoree of the Patrick Division and for whom the Lester Patrick Trophy was named, was Elizabeth's grandfather.

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