| Date | News |
| 9/28/09 | Young is expected to return to the Texas starting lineup on Monday after missing most of the month of September with a strained hamstring. He briefly returned to the lineup 10 days ago but left after just one at-bat after re-aggravating the injury. Young is a risky start for the final week of the season. |
| 9/17/09 | Young lasted just one at-bat in his return from a strained hamstring. He remained out of the lineup on Wednesday but is hopeful he can return on Friday. Consider Young day-to-day. |
| 9/15/09 | Young has returned to the Texas lineup for Tuesday's game. He has been out since September 1st with a strained hamstring. Young admitted he was not 100% and will serve as the team's designated hitter. |
| 9/03/09 | Young is expected to be sidelined for at least 2-3 weeks with a strained hamstring. Young is aiming to return on September 18th. |
| 9/02/09 | Young left Tuesday's game with a strained hamstring. He will undergo an MRI on Wednesday and will be re-evaluated at that time. |
| 5/23/09 | Young left Friday's game after spraining his ankle. He showed up to the stadium on crutches and is not in the lineup Saturday. He is day-to-day. |
| 5/09/09 | Young left Friday's game with back stiffness and did not play in Saturday's game. He is considered day-to-day. |
| 3/26/09 | Young returned to the Texas lineup Wednesday after missing the previous two games with a strained quad. However, he lasted just one inning before re-aggravating the injury. He is considered day-to-day. |
| 1/16/09 | Young made news last week when he asked for a trade after being told the team was moving him to third base to make room for rookie Elvis Andrus at shortstop. Young has agreed to move to third base and is no longer requesting a trade. Young will remain a Ranger and will have more fantasy value as a shortstop. |
| 1/11/09 | The Rangers have asked Young to move to third base to make room for Elvis Andrus. |
| 8/01/08 | Young left Monday's game with a broken finger and is expected to miss 5-7 days. |
| 7/03/08 | Young left Wednesday's game with a mild groin strain. He is listed as day-to-day and will benefit from a team off day on Thursday. |
| 6/09/08 | Young has a hairline fracture in his left ring finger. However, Young will play through the injury and will not go on the DL right now. Expect the injury to hamper his numbers somewhat. |
| 5/08/08 | Young left Wednesday's game with a hip flexor injury. He is out of the lineup for Thursday's game but he expects to play on Friday. |
| 9/26/07 | Young became the third player since 1940 (Wade Boggs & Ichiro being the others) to have five straight seasons with 200 or more hits. |
| 8/26/07 | Young was out of the lineup today again due to a sore back. He could have played, however, and is expected back in the lineup on Tuesday. |
| 8/22/07 | Young was forced to leave last night's game with more stiffness in his back. The team does not know how much he will be able to play in today's doubleheader, if at all. |
| 8/21/07 | Young was a late scratch from yesterday's game due to a stiff back. |
| 7/29/07 | Young went 0-for-4, thus snapping his season-high 11-game hitting streak. He is hitting .297. |
| 7/23/07 | Young started at shortstop on Sunday, marking his 1,000th game in the Major Leagues. He went 1-for-4 against the Indians. |
| 7/22/07 | In his return to the Texas Rangers lineup, Young went 2-for-4 against the Cleveland Indians last night. |
| 7/19/07 | Young will miss the next two games to attend the funeral of his wife's grandmother. He will return to the Rangers on Saturday. |
| 7/18/07 | Young went 5-for-5, including two doubles (25) last night against the Mariners. He is batting .290 for the season. |
| 6/26/07 | Young went 3-for-4 yesterday with an RBI to raise his average to .295. He is batting .387 for the month. |
| 6/24/07 | Young continues to be hot: he went 2-for-4 yesterday and drove in four runs for the Rangers who beat the Astros, 7-2. He is batting .294. |
| 6/18/07 | Young hit a pair of run-scoring singles yesterday, extending his hitting streak to a season-high 10 games. He has a .348 career average in Interleague play. |
| 6/17/07 | Young (1-for-4) extended his hitting streak to a season-high nine games. |
| 6/16/07 | Young (1-for-3) doubled in his first at-bat yesterday, extending his hitting streak to eight games. He is batting .286. |
| 6/10/07 | Young went 2-for-5 last night, including a single with two outs in the ninth inning to cap a four-run rally and lead the Rangers to a 4-3 victory over Milwaukee. |
| 6/09/07 | Young went 3-for-4 last night, and has gone 9-for-16 in his last four games. He is batting .276. |
| 6/06/07 | Young went 4-for-4 with a double and an RBI last night, and raised his average to .269. |
| 5/06/07 | Young went 2-for-4, including a home run, to end the Blue Jays series with an 8-for-13 tally. He raised his average from .192 to .233 in the process. |
| 5/06/07 | Young homered and had five RBI against the Blue Jays Saturday night. He ended up going 3-for-5 and is 6-for-9 in his last two games. He is batting .225 for the year. |
| 4/12/07 | Young drove in four runs with 2 HRs off James Shields of the Devil Rays Wednesday. He had been batting .176 in 34 at-bats. |
| 3/22/07 | Young has been cleared to play. He was hit by a pitch last week and had sutures on his left ear, which had prevented him from wearing a helmet. |
| 3/17/07 | Young still has sutures on his left ear, which means that he must limit his exposure outside and he cannot put a batting helmet on his head. The sutures will come out Wednesday, when Young expects to return to action. He was hit by a pitch on Tuesday. |
| 3/14/07 | Young had surgery to repair torn cartilage in his left ear that was damaged when he was hit by a pitch. He is expected to miss up to a week. |
| 3/13/07 | Young left Tuesday's game after getting hit by a pitch in the back of his head. He received treatment in the clubhouse for a cut on his ear but seemed okay. |
| 3/02/07 | The Texas Rangers officially announced the signing of Young at a press conference today. Young was already signed through 2008; this five-year $80 million contract keeps him as a Ranger through 2013. |
| 3/01/07 | The Rangers on Thursday agreed to terms on a new contract extension with Young, according to a report on MLB.com. |
| 2/25/07 | Rangers owner Tom Hicks made it clear Saturday that the team wants Young to be the "face of the franchise." The Rangers are hoping to complete a deal with him sometime this week. General manager Jon Daniels has talked with Young's agent Dan Lozano over the past two weeks with that intent. |
| 8/23/06 | Young has a minor bruise on his heel and was the DH last night so that he could rest it. He is expected back at shortstop tonight. |
| 7/18/06 | News: Michael Young will be slotted as the DH in Tuesday's game against the Blue Jays. Views: Manager Buck Showalter said wants to rest his players as much as he can when they play on turf in Toronto, Minnesota and Tampa Bay. Mark DeRosa will play shortstop in Young's place. |
| 6/19/06 | News: Young went 5-for-5 Sunday, including his fifth home run, to raise his average to .327. Views: He did as the designated hitter, but hopefully Young also regained his form that won him last year's AL batting title. |
| 5/31/06 | It appears as though Young made the necessary adjustments Wednesday, stroking a homer and a double in a 3-for-4 effort to improve to a team-high .318 average. |
| 5/30/06 | Young, the 2005 AL batting champion, is in a bit of a slump, going 2 for his last 25. "I'm not having good at-bats," Young said before Monday's game. "If I was having good at-bats, I'd be getting hits. I pride myself on making good adjustments, so I need to do that." |
| 4/09/06 | Young, Mark Teixeira and Kevin Mench also had two hits for the Rangers. |
| 4/07/06 | Young homered for the Rangers, who have dropped four of five to begin the season. |
| 8/18/05 | Young had an RBI double and DeRosa singled home a run. |
| 7/26/05 | In the second, Baltimore's Eli Marrero hit a drive to left that bounced off the wall toward center. Dellucci recovered in time to throw to shortstop Young, whose relay to catcher Sandy Alomar ruined Marrero's bid for an inside-the-park homer. Marrero left the game in the fourth inning after being overcome by the 98-degree heat.
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| 6/28/05 | Young hit his 11th homer in the first, the only run allowed by Angels starter Jarrod Washburn. |
| 6/25/05 | Young homered twice and drove in three runs, bringing up the question .. who is the best shortstop in the American League? |
| 4/27/05 | Young hit a three-run homer in a five-run first inning burst. |
| 4/13/05 | Young has at least one hit in all nine games this season. |
| 4/10/05 | Young had three hits, and has at least one in all six games this season. |
| 4/08/05 | "We fought hard and we didn't give in," said shortstop Michael Young, who tied the game with a two-out run-scoring single in the ninth. "We had some good at-bats when we needed to have them. All in all it was a good series, especially considering we haven't busted out offensively yet."
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| 4/05/05 | Young and Francisco Cordero have emerged as the leaders in the Rangers' clubhouse. |
| 8/18/04 | Young added three hits and three runs scored yesterday. Is there a more quietly unknown star player than Young? |
| 8/04/04 | Young was a late scratch for the Rangers on Tuesday because of back stiffness. He's day to day. |
| 4/30/04 | There was one out in the ninth inning, Young lined the first pitch he saw from Royals reliever Curtis Leskanic over the center-field wall for a game-tying home run. |
| 4/17/04 | Young leads all Rangers in at bats, runs scored, hits, batting average and is second in runs batted in. |
| 2/24/04 | Young appears destined to be the club's starting shortstop.
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| 8/04/03 | Only Ichiro (51) has had more multi-hit games than Michael Young (46) this season.
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| 7/27/03 | Michael had 4 more hits and is batting .323 for Texas. |
| 5/20/03 | While starting 41 of 43 games at second, Young has played terrific defense and is hitting .319, the highest for an American League second baseman. |
| 4/03/03 | Blalock started at second with Mark Teixeira playing third base, leaving Young stuck to the bench. |
| 3/19/03 | Suddenly the Rangers want to look at Michael Young in center. |
| 2/08/03 | After he hit .262 with nine homers and 62 runs batted in the Team wants more. We appreciate the well-above-average defense and athleticism he brings, but he needs to do more things on offense, is what management says. We say 62 RBI's with last seasons team is pretty good.
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| 11/09/02 | Young may be shifted to center field if Carl Everett isn't healthy enough to play every day. |
| 9/14/02 | Young is hitting .185 with a .239 on-base percentage as a leadoff hitter this year. He is batting .297 with a .352 on-base average in the No. 2 spot. Kevin Mench batted leadoff Friday. Young's short audition seems to be over. Narron said, "I hate to say he puts too much pressure on himself when he leads off, but it seems that way."
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| 9/11/02 | Young, batting leadoff for a fifth straight game, went into Tuesday's game with a .400 on-base percentage for September. He had a .377 on-base percentage in August. He had a .312 on-base percentage at the All-Star break.
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| 8/15/02 | Second baseman Michael Young tumbled over right fielder Donnie Sadler while catching the final out of the game and suffered a sprained right ankle. The Rangers did not send him for X-rays, but he could miss some time this weekend against the Blue Jays.
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| 6/20/02 | Young's leadoff home run in the sixth gave the Rangers a 4-3 lead after they fell behind 3-1 early. Young has four homers in his last eight games. |
| 6/17/02 | Michael played shortstop Sunday. |
| 6/15/02 | Second baseman Michael Young, slowly coming out of a long slump, also came up big with a career-best 5-for-5, including two home runs.
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| 6/12/02 | Young shows signs of recovery. He took a five-game hitting streak into Tuesday's game, during which time he was 8-for-20 with six RBIs.
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| 5/24/02 | He has been playing extremely well. That's probably why Narron is not ruling out Carl Everett's return to center field so that Young can play second, Frank Catalanotto can play left and Rusty Greer can be used at designated hitter.
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| 5/21/02 | Greer (.291) and second baseman Michael Young (.300) have been effective atop the order in Catalanotto's absence. |
| 5/16/02 | Young had a home run on a gritty seventh-inning at-bat in which he fouled off four full-count pitches before hitting one beyond right-center field.
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| 5/13/02 | Michael Young singled with two outs to score Kevin Mench from second, giving him nine RBIs in the seven-game homestand. |
| 5/11/02 | Young hit second for the ninth time this season Friday and broke a scoreless tie with a run-scoring, eighth-inning double that helped the Rangers to a 2-0 win over Detroit. It improved their record to 7-2 when Young hits second. Young is now 8-for-22 (.363) when facing a pitcher for the third or fourth time in a game, suggesting he learns as the game progresses.
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| 5/10/02 | Young, in his last 16 at-bats, has had 7 hits. |
| 5/02/02 | In the 11 games before Wednesday, Young was 14-for-37 (.378) to improve his season average to .333. Young, drafted in the fifth round by Toronto in 1997, was 6-for-15 in his career against his former club going into Wednesday. |
| 4/27/02 | The second-base combination of Michael Young and Frank Catalanotto did not make an error in the club's first 21 games, handling 104 chances. Last year, the second basemen averaged an error every 61 chances or every 12 games. |
| 4/26/02 | Secondbaseman Michael Young will start Friday against Cleveland left-hander Chuck Finley. |
| 4/25/02 | Ranger secondbaseman Young played third base for the first time in his career. The addition of Calvin Murray to the outfield could mean less time at second base for Young. He was not in the lineup for the second consecutive game Wednesday, he was a defensive replacement at third base Tuesday. "A lot of his playing time will depend on matchups, but he is not strictly a platoon guy," Jerry Narron said. "We're going to try to get him in there against right-handers as much as we can." Tuesday was the first time Young had played third base since he was 12, he said.
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| 4/15/02 | Michael Young was given his shot as a leadoff hitter against left-handed starters. |
| 4/11/02 | Young rejoined the Rangers during the game, after attending his aunt's funeral in California.
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| 4/10/02 | His aunt passed away and he will be gone for 2-3 days. |
| 3/09/02 | The Rangers have given the starting second base job to Young. |
| 8/11/01 | Young was able to take batting practice and hopes to get back in the action this weekend. |
| 8/08/01 | Young has missed the last few games due to bruised fingers. |
| 7/04/01 | Young will stay in the Texas lineup even when Randy Velarde returns from the DL. |
| 5/26/01 | Young will get a decent amount of playing time at second base for Texas while Randy Velarde is on the DL. |
| 5/25/01 | Young was called up from the minors today and will be used as a reserve infielder. |
| 2000 | Young was called up by the Rangers for the final week of the season. |
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