WIP- Chris Young sucks
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🗓️ 25 May 2026
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The WIP boys (with Lando sitting in for DJ who is on vacation.....again) discuss why Chris Young is doing a bad job with YOUR Texas Rangers.
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| 0:16.9 | We're right here just heard in Will's Ticker talking about those Texas Rangers who get swept at the hands of the angels over the weekend. |
| 0:26.3 | And yesterday was pretty bad. |
| 0:29.8 | 14 strikeouts from Reed Detmer's only one hit, a Jake Berger home run. |
| 0:37.2 | And the question really I don't think anymore is what can you do to fix the offense? |
| 0:42.4 | The question is, and I think what we're going to get into here is, why haven't you done anything to address the offense? |
| 0:49.3 | And we're talking about you, Chris Young, not the GM, the president of baseball operations, says Finster |
| 0:55.3 | Maker is officially the GM. But the question, Monty, is why aren't you getting more called |
| 1:02.1 | into question about what you have and have not done and the moves you've made to put this |
| 1:07.3 | offense back in seemingly the exact same place that it was last year. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, I mean, I think we all knew at the time that attacking, pitching even more in the |
| 1:18.6 | off season was a nice luxury, but was not fixing any of the problems they had last year. |
| 1:25.1 | And I don't think hiring a new manager was going to fix any of those problems either. |
| 1:29.7 | Like you needed new bats and 36-year-old Andrew McCutcheon was not going to be that. |
| 1:37.7 | So, yeah, I'm a little lost as to what this team's overall vision is and where they think they are because they |
| 1:48.1 | kind of seem to me like they're in a bad limbo of arrow not pointing down but also not really |
| 1:56.4 | pointing up either and I definitely don't think you can argue it's going up because your best |
| 2:02.4 | players are all in their 30s outside of what Josh Young has been this year and hopefully |
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