Michael Young News

One is that the Rangers can't seem to make it through February or March without some kind of controversy.

The Texas Rangers have avoided arbitration with Elvis Andrus , agreeing Tuesday to a three-year deal with the shortstop, according to a source.

Al Yellon has a post over at Baseball Nation that looks at the top 10 active leaders in hits and talks about which of those players have a chance of getting to 3000 hits, while also looking at the chance of three players outside the top 10 -- Albert Pujols , Miguel Cabrera , and Starlin Castro .

I'm going back to the Anthony Vasquez well again. Sometimes I get stuck looking at Barry Bonds ' statistics because they're so unbelievably amazing.

The Detroit Tigers gave Prince Fielder over $200 million, the Los Angeles Angels did the same with Albert Pujols, and the New York Yankees added two quality starting pitchers.

Baseball had one of its finest hours in the 2011 World Series, a seven-game thriller that turned around in Game 6, when the Texas Rangers were twice just one strike away from the championship, only to see the St.

When Michael Young took the role of DH, he did so begrudgingly at first . Since that time, he has flourished as arguably the best in the game.

New Rangers sports psychologist Don Kalkstein chats with Alex Cora in the Red Sox clubhouse in 2008.

Rangers manager Ron Washington, after leading his team to a second straight American League pennant and a club record 96 wins, has been rewarded with a two-year contract extension.

The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum will honor Washington Saturday night in Kansas City with the C.I. Taylor Award as the AL's top manager, part of the museum's Legacy Awards.

After hitting .103 in the postseason for Mitch Moreland , one wouldn't think he could have ended 2011 on a worse note.

ESPN's Jim Caple and Julie Foudy discuss the potential impact of Hope Solo's injury on the USWNT's upcoming game against Costa Rica.

After kicking off this series last week with a look at Kenley Jansen and Michael Young , we continue today with a pair of starting pitchers.

Prince Fielder is no longer a free agent. According to reports, the first baseman has signed a nine-year deal worth $214 million with Detroit, the team the Rangers beat in six games in the American League Championship Series in October.

Anthony Andro writes about Josh Hamilton's appearance at a Winter Caravan stop in Ft.

Make your plans to join the national champion Santa Barbara Foresters on Friday for Hot Stove Hall of Fame Night , a benefit to raise funds to help improve the facilities used by the Foresters and the UCSB Gauchos baseball team .

Mitch Moreland must feel like a man hunted. He is coming off a serviceable at 1st where he was platooned with Michael Young and Mike Napoli .

On Thursday we learnt that Red Sox slugger and DH, David Ortiz doesn't expect a deal to get done before the arbitration hearing.

They don't want to commit to 10 years or $24 million a year. But with a lucrative TV deal coming in 2015, they could backload a deal to pay more later.

MARCH 02: Michael Young #10 and Mike Napoli #25 of the Texas Rangers high five teammate David Murphy #7 after Murphy hit a 3 run home run against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim during the second inning of the spring training game at Surprise Stadium on March 2, 2011 in Surprise, Arizona.