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WIP- Chris Young sucks

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4.5683 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

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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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