My guess is that Young ends up throwing a hissy fit about this and then ends up moving to third base and living with it.

is pissed that he wasn’t asked to move to 3B. He is acting like my 11yo son.

And will seek out such trade.
But that if they can’t find a suitable offer, very possible, MY will give in and play 3b.

and leads one to think maybe this thing can be salvaged.

No! We’ve spent so many comments discussing this. It can’t be salvaged. Think about the few hours we just wasted.

. . . I was excited about him being gone.

:(

for a couple hours… but it’ll be over tomorrow.

(BTW, Jamey’s email is here)

Making a trade demand was his way of calling their bluff. That obviously didn’t work.

de minimis.

What worries me is that other teams may get enough of an impression that Texas is in a corner now that they’ll offer less than fair value for him, possibly putting the Rangers in a position of choosing between an unattractive trade and an unhappy leader.

Solution: Get multiple teams involved, taking away the leverage that one team clearly more interested than everyone else thinks it has.

Kind of hard to do though, when JD has a small list to work with.

“The ball is in their court right now.” When was it not. MY doesn’t have much of a choice in this situation.

I don’t think this set of responses is all that different in essence, just in tone. The one bit of wiggle room I can see for MY is this: “I didn’t think that was a stance that was going to be taken. I didn’t think it was something that was going to be such a hard line.” Which might be taken to mean he has thought that he may need to play 3B sometime down the line. If that’s the case, maybe JD will compromise and let Metcalf/Davis cover 3B this year.

We could get Gordon Beckham in a deal from the White Sox?

I’d take getting out from that contract. I doubt he improves with age.

This is closer to the way I expected this to eventually go down. All the talk about him being a team player and he’d agree to a move didn’t make sense to me especially after he won a gold glove.

and I wanted to scream at Junior. He really is 100% clueless about this team.

His whole thing was “why move MY off SS when he made 11 errors, and Elvis made 30-something in a shorter season?”

It was incredible. A caller made the point that Elvis has twice the range of MY, so therefore he would make more errors, and Junior just laughed at that assertion.

Also, they said they had read both the MY and Nolan/JD quotes, but they basically believed MY that he was told he was moving, not asked. I don’t know what to believe there, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that guys that don’t really follow the team like Junior would automatically defend him like that.

of the sirreal

if your boss at your job, in which your getting paid a LOT of money – significantly more than your worth – tells you that sorry, i know your pretty good at this job but we have someone we think is better at what your doing so were moving you from this job to another one…and you said no, remind me what would happen?

wake up and there’s all this I missed. Just as well, I wouldn’t have gotten as much sleep.

This is the first time I’ve actually believed there’s a chance Young gets traded. I’ll still believe it happens at the press conference. It’s frustrating that I’m too busy at work to closely follow all the details of this.

what happened to michael young being a “team player” and “leader” – if your either of those you do whats best for you (you have the money already) and whats best for the team (which is clearly to move to 3b, so as stated you can have all your championship players on the field)

i hope he ends up getting traded to someone like KC or pittsburg (pipe dream) – or i hope that we do what frank robinson did with soriano which is say fine, “dont move we will put you on the restricted list and you will not get paid nor will you get a year closer to the end of the contract”

i think nolan ends up saying this above, in part because ron washington doesnt have the balls, and in part because ron washington is a horrible manager. i predict btw that washington is gone by the ASB

I can’t stand that guy and never could. He is such a baby/whiner. The guy is under contract to a club for 15 million this season. They tell him to move, you move, that’s it. When you work for someone, you work for someone. He has consistently whined and complained during his time in Texas and his “winning attitude” has done little for the team. I say the sooner he is on another team the better. Good riddance Whiner Young.

basically that he wasn’t going to work very hard on a trade deal for MY?

Most ballplayers are douchebags, even ones that seem to be pretty grounded.

I just came on to find all of this..

Holy shite…

So what’s the general feeling around here about this? If Young is traded, I say go for Sheets hardcore.

http://www.prospecttube.com/video/elvis-andrus

http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/01/the-good-face-of-the-franchise.html

Young has, in most ways, been an exemplary player and person for several years around here, as I’m pretty sure young stars like Ian Kinsler and Josh Hamilton would attest. Last season, he sucked it up and played through a broken finger. Kudos for that. He’s demonstrated virtually every admirable quality one could want in a representative of a franchise, but now even that element of Young’s game seems to be in decline.