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I'll continue to hope for something -- ANYTHING -- from Young over the last 2-3 months of the...

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I'll continue to hope for something -- ANYTHING -- from Young over the last 2-3 months of the Rangers' season, even if that something amounts to little more than a dead-cat bounce, but I'm not optimistic. Yeah, he may get back on a nice little two-week, average-driven run, but that won't ameliorate the longer-term problem, which is that he isn't drawing walks and isn't hitting for power. And then he'll slump again, and the seasonal numbers will bottom out ... again. It's a terrible situation, one that's exacerbated by the fact that he is impervious to being benched, and, at this point, my greatest fear is that the status quo will remain in place through October, and his terrible hitting ends up significantly damaging the Rangers' chances of post-season success. And that then he comes back next year, and does the same thing all over again. This is a disaster.

From Joey Matches' latest blog post on Michael Young.