Texas Rangers president of baseball ops Chris Young joined the GBAG Nation to recap the team's series victory over the Boston Red Sox this last weekend, as well as Josh Jung's injury timeline and what he thought of Jacob deGrom's first start of 2025.
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00:00What can you tell us about Josh Young?
00:16Is he going to be all right?
00:17Yeah, I'm waiting on a medical update today.
00:20He was seeing a doctor today just to make sure.
00:24The original exams did not show anything structurally.
00:27So we anticipate, really, that he'll be ready at the end of this 10-day period.
00:33You never know.
00:34The body's a tricky thing, and we'll certainly continue to monitor him.
00:37But I think over the next couple of days, we expect him to turn the corner.
00:40We probably just pushed it a little too fast and didn't get it right, and then he had the
00:44one diving play, and it kind of jarred it.
00:47I think this time it's prudent to get it right and make sure he's 100% before we put him
00:51back in competition.
00:53CY, you have a lot of faith in Josh Smith.
00:57Even though he was struggling at times, you guys stuck with him.
01:01It has to be just a comfort to know that you have depth like that if, in fact, with Young
01:06going down, that you can plug somebody in like that, and it's a silver slugger type
01:10of a player.
01:11Well, completely.
01:12I mean, Josh had a tremendous first half last year, a little bit in the second half struggled,
01:19but that's normal.
01:21But yes, to have that level, that caliber of player to play short or third base when
01:28Corey or JJ needs a break.
01:31The hope is that we get Zeke Duran back to his best self, too.
01:35If you have Zeke and Smitty playing the left side, it's not too much of a fall-off, but
01:41from Corey to JJ.
01:43I think that's our goal, is that we've got to get Zeke going.
01:46We feel great with Smitty.
01:47Over the course of the year, these guys are going to need breaks, much less they're going
01:51to get injured.
01:52So we need to make sure that we protect them and have really solid, good depth options
01:57behind them.