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Chris Young

Christopher Ryan Young

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 10", Weight: 260 lb.

Born: May 25, 1979 in Dallas, TX
High School: Highland Park (Dallas, TX)
School: Princeton University
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 3rd round of the 2000 amateur draft.
Signed September 6, 2000. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 24, 2004
Teams (by GP): Padres/Rangers/Mets 2004-2011
2012 Contract Status: Free Agent, 1 yr/$1.1M (11) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 7.041, Free Agent: 2012 [*], Agents: Lon Babby, previously: Arn Tellem [*]
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All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #845. Ruben Gomez… #846. Elmer Riddle… #847. Dixie Davis… #848. CHRIS YOUNG… #849. Dan Schatzeder… #850. Allan Sothoron… #851. Eddie Guardado…

All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #845. Ruben Gomez… #846. Elmer Riddle… #847. Dixie Davis… #848. CHRIS YOUNG… #849. Dan Schatzeder… #850. Allan Sothoron… #851. Eddie Guardado…

Standard Pitching

More Stats

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
2001	22	PIT-min	A	5	3	.625	4.12	12	12	0	2	0	0	74.1	79	39	34	6	20	0	72	3	0	0	320		1.332	9.6	0.7	2.4	8.7	3.60	HCK · SALL
2002	23	PIT-min	A	11	9	.550	3.11	26	26	0	1	0	0	144.2	127	57	50	11	34	1	136	4	1	3	587		1.113	7.9	0.7	2.1	8.5	4.00	HCK · SALL
2003	24	WSN-min	AA,A+	9	6	.600	3.11	23	23	0	0	0	0	133.0	109	48	46	12	27	0	103	6	2	5	534		1.023	7.4	0.8	1.8	7.0	3.81	HRB,BRE · EL,FLOR
2004	25	TEX-min	AA,AAA	9	5	.643	3.72	23	23	0	1	0	0	118.2	114	55	49	11	40	1	109	5	0	5	499		1.298	8.6	0.8	3.0	8.3	2.73	FRI,OKC · TL,PCL
2004	25	TEX	AL	3	2	.600	4.71	7	7	0	0	0	0	36.1	36	21	19	7	10	0	27	2	0	1	158	108	1.266	8.9	1.7	2.5	6.7	2.70
2005	26	TEX	AL	12	7	.632	4.26	31	31	0	0	0	0	164.2	162	84	78	19	45	2	137	7	0	3	700	109	1.257	8.9	1.0	2.5	7.5	3.04
2006	27	SDP	NL	11	5	.688	3.46	31	31	0	0	0	0	179.1	134	72	69	28	69	4	164	6	1	6	735	117	1.132	*6.7*	1.4	3.5	8.2	2.38
2007	28	SDP	NL	9	8	.529	3.12	30	30	0	0	0	0	173.0	118	66	60	10	72	0	167	7	4	7	705	128	1.098	*6.1*	0.5	3.7	8.7	2.32	AS
2008	29	SDP-min	A+	0	1	.000	3.12	2	2	0	0	0	0	8.2	5	3	3	3	1	0	7	0	0	0	32		0.692	5.2	3.1	1.0	7.3	7.00	LEL · CALL
2008	29	SDP	NL	7	6	.538	3.96	18	18	0	1	0	0	102.1	84	46	45	13	48	4	93	1	1	3	434	96	1.290	7.4	1.1	4.2	8.2	1.94
2009	30	SDP	NL	4	6	.400	5.21	14	14	0	0	0	0	76.0	70	47	44	12	40	3	50	2	0	1	336	73	1.447	8.3	1.4	4.7	5.9	1.25
2010	31	SDP-min	AAA,AA	0	1	.000	7.71	3	3	0	0	0	0	7.0	4	6	6	1	6	0	5	0	0	0	30		1.429	5.1	1.3	7.7	6.4	0.83	POR,SAN · PCL,TL
2010	31	SDP	NL	2	0	1.000	0.90	4	4	0	0	0	0	20.0	10	2	2	1	11	0	15	0	0	1	82	416	1.050	4.5	0.5	5.0	6.8	1.36
2011	32	NYM	NL	1	0	1.000	1.88	4	4	0	0	0	0	24.0	12	5	5	3	11	0	22	1	0	0	95	201	0.958	4.5	1.1	4.1	8.3	2.00
8 Seasons				49	34	.590	3.74	139	139	0	1	0	0	775.2	626	343	322	93	306	13	675	26	6	22	3245	111	1.202	7.3	1.1	3.6	7.8	2.21
162 Game Avg.				12	8	.590	3.74	34	34	0	0	0	0	190	153	84	79	23	75	3	165	6	1	5	794	111	1.202	7.3	1.1	3.6	7.8	2.21

SDP (5 yrs)				33	25	.569	3.60	97	97	0	1	0	0	550.2	416	233	220	64	240	11	489	16	6	18	2292	110	1.191	6.8	1.0	3.9	8.0	2.04
TEX (2 yrs)				15	9	.625	4.34	38	38	0	0	0	0	201.0	198	105	97	26	55	2	164	9	0	4	858	109	1.259	8.9	1.2	2.5	7.3	2.98
NYM (1 yr)				1	0	1.000	1.88	4	4	0	0	0	0	24.0	12	5	5	3	11	0	22	1	0	0	95	201	0.958	4.5	1.1	4.1	8.3	2.00

NL (6 yrs)			NL	34	25	.576	3.52	101	101	0	1	0	0	574.2	428	238	225	67	251	11	511	17	6	18	2387	112	1.182	6.7	1.0	3.9	8.0	2.04
AL (2 yrs)			AL	15	9	.625	4.34	38	38	0	0	0	0	201.0	198	105	97	26	55	2	164	9	0	4	858	109	1.259	8.9	1.2	2.5	7.3	2.98

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	GS	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary	Awards
2004	25	TEX	AL	36.1	7	21	28	-1	.9	7	0.6	$
2005	26	TEX	AL	164.2	31	84	112	-3	.9	28	2.6	$400,000
2006	27	SDP	NL	179.1	31	72	98	4	1.0	26	2.7	$500,000
2007	28	SDP	NL	173.0	30	66	99	-2	1.0	33	3.5	$600,000	AS
2008	29	SDP	NL	102.1	18	46	54	-1	.9	8	0.9	$2,625,000
2009	30	SDP	NL	76.0	14	47	43	-2	1.0	-4	-0.5	$4,625,000
2010	31	SDP	NL	20.0	4	2	11	0	1.0	9	0.9	$6,375,000
2011	32	NYM	NL	24.0	4	5	14	-1	1.1	9	1.0	$1,100,000
8 Seasons				775.2	139	343	459	-6	1.0	116	11.7	$16,225,000

SDP (5 yrs)				550.2	97	233	305	-1	1.0	72	7.5	$14,725,000
TEX (2 yrs)				201.0	38	105	140	-4	.9	35	3.2	$400,000
NYM (1 yr)				24.0	4	5	14	-1	1.1	9	1.0	$1,100,000

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
2006	27	SDP	NL	NLDS	L	STL	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.2	4	0	0	0	2	1	9	0	0	0	25	0.900	5.4	0.0	2.7	12.2	4.50
1 NLDS							1	0	1.000	0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.2	4	0	0	0	2	1	9	0	0	0	25	0.900	5.4	0.0	2.7	12.2	4.50

Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
2001	22	PIT-min	A	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	HCK · SALL
2002	23	PIT-min	A	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	HCK · SALL
2003	24	WSN-min	AA,A+	23	14	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.091	.091	.091	.182		1	0	0	3	0	0	HRB,BRE · EL,FLOR
2004	25	TEX-min	AA,AAA	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	FRI,OKC · TL,PCL
2004	25	TEX	AL	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
2005	26	TEX	AL	31	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2006	27	SDP	NL	31	62	54	2	7	2	1	0	4	0	0	0	26	.130	.130	.204	.333	-13	11	0	0	8	0	0	1
2007	28	SDP	NL	30	58	46	2	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	5	15	.130	.231	.152	.383	7	7	1	1	6	0	0	1	AS
2008	29	SDP-min	A+	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	LEL · CALL
2008	29	SDP	NL	18	36	28	3	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	11	.107	.133	.250	.383	3	7	3	0	6	1	0	1
2009	30	SDP	NL	14	26	23	2	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	7	.261	.320	.261	.581	63	6	0	0	1	0	0	1
2010	31	SDP-min	AAA,AA	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000		0	0	0	0	0	0	POR,SAN · PCL,TL
2010	31	SDP	NL	4	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.167	.000	.167	-48	0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
2011	32	NYM	NL	4	11	9	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	.333	.333	.333	.667	87	3	0	0	2	0	0	/1
8 Seasons				139	204	170	10	25	4	1	1	12	0	0	9	70	.147	.193	.200	.393	7	34	4	1	23	1	0
162 Game Avg.				162	238	198	12	29	5	1	1	14	0	0	10	82	.147	.193	.200	.393	7	40	5	1	27	1	0

SDP (5 yrs)				97	188	156	9	22	4	1	1	10	0	0	9	63	.141	.192	.199	.390	7	31	4	1	21	1	0
TEX (2 yrs)				38	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
NYM (1 yr)				4	11	9	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	.333	.333	.333	.667	87	3	0	0	2	0	0

NL (6 yrs)				101	199	165	10	25	4	1	1	12	0	0	9	67	.152	.199	.206	.405	11	34	4	1	23	1	0
AL (2 yrs)				38	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
2005	26	TEX	AL	5	-1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$400,000	1
2006	27	SDP	NL	62	-10	0	-1	1	0	7	2	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$500,000	1
2007	28	SDP	NL	58	-6	0	0	0	0	6	2	2	0.2	2	0.2	0.0	$600,000	1	AS
2008	29	SDP	NL	36	-4	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$2,625,000	1
2009	30	SDP	NL	26	-1	-0	-0	0	0	3	1	3	0.3	3	0.3	0.0	$4,625,000	1
2010	31	SDP	NL	6	-1	0	0	0	0	1	0	-0	0.0	-0	0.0	0.0	$6,375,000	/1
2011	32	NYM	NL	11	-0	0	-0	0	0	1	0	1	0.1	1	0.1	0.0	$1,100,000	/1
7 Seasons				204	-23	-0	-1	1	0	22	7	5	0.5	5	0.5	0.0	$16,225,000

SDP (5 yrs)				188	-22	-0	-1	1	0	20	6	4	0.4	4	0.4	0.0	$14,725,000
NYM (1 yr)				11	-0	0	-0	0	0	1	0	1	0.1	1	0.1	0.0	$1,100,000
TEX (1 yr)				5	-1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$400,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
2006	27	SDP	NL	NLDS	STL	L	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 NLDS							1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

Standard Fielding

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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	SB	CS	CS%	PO	Awards
2004	TEX	AL	25	P	7			36.1	6	2	3	1	0	.833	0	0	1.24	0.71	.948	1.66	1.64
2005	TEX	AL	26	P	31			164.2	21	8	13	0	0	1.000	2	2	1.15	0.68	.954	1.70	1.68
2006	SDP	NL	27	P	31			179.1	20	8	12	0	2	1.000	-8	-9	1.00	0.65	.958	1.72	1.71
2007	SDP	NL	28	P	30			173.0	21	7	13	1	1	.952	-8	-9	1.04	0.67	.965	1.68	1.67					AS
2008	SDP	NL	29	P	18			102.1	16	7	8	1	1	.938	-2	-4	1.32	0.83	.959	1.73	1.72
2009	SDP	NL	30	P	14			76.0	18	9	9	0	0	1.000	-2	-5	2.13	1.29	.955	1.72	1.70
2010	SDP	NL	31	P	4			20.0	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	1	10	1.35	0.75	.953	1.71	1.72
2011	NYM	NL	32	P	4	4	0	24.0	2	0	2	0	0	1.000	0	0	0.75	0.50	.955	1.80	1.80	4	1	20%	1
	8 Seasons			P	139	4	0	775.2	107	43	61	3	4	.972	-17	-4	1.21	0.75	.957	1.71	1.69	4	1	20%	1
	8 Seasons			TOT	139	4	0	775.2	107	43	61	3	4	.972	-17	-26	1.21	0.75	.957	1.71	1.69	4	1	20%	1

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2007 *	Earned Run Average s c a p y 2006 NL 3.46 (6th) 2007 NL 3.12 (5th)	Win-Loss % s c a p y 2006 NL .688 (3rd)	Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y 2006 NL 1.132 (3rd) 2007 NL 1.098 (2nd)
Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 2006 NL 6.725 (1st) 2007 NL 6.139 (1st)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 2005 AL 7.488 (5th) 2006 NL 8.231 (8th) 2007 NL 8.688 (4th)	Home Runs s c a p y 2006 NL 28 (10th)	Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 2007 NL 0.520 (4th)
Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 2007 NL 128 (8th)	Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y 2006 NL 23.77 (9th)	Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y 2007 NL 3.0 (3rd) Active 6.2 (47th)	Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y 2006 NL 2.5 (8th)

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black Ink	Pitching - 4 (462), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray Ink	Pitching - 15 (1235), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 4 (1410), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 17 (403), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Transactions

June 5, 2000: Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 3rd round of the 2000 amateur draft. Player signed September 6, 2000.
December 20, 2002: Traded by the Pittsburgh Pirates with Jon Searles (minors) to the Montreal Expos for Matt Herges.
April 3, 2004: Traded by the Montreal Expos with Josh McKinley (minors) to the Texas Rangers for Justin Echols (minors) and Einar Diaz.
January 6, 2006: Traded by the Texas Rangers with Adrian Gonzalez and Terrmel Sledge to the San Diego Padres for Billy Killian (minors), Adam Eaton and Akinori Otsuka.
November 3, 2010: Granted Free Agency.
January 20, 2011: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Mets.
October 30, 2011: Granted Free Agency.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary
2005	26	Texas Rangers	$400,000
2006	27	San Diego Padres	$500,000
2007	28	San Diego Padres	$600,000
2008	29	San Diego Padres	$2,625,000
2009	30	San Diego Padres	$4,625,000
2010	31	San Diego Padres	$6,375,000
2011	32	New York Mets	$1,100,000
2012 Status		not updated,
Career to date (may be incomplete)			$16,225,000

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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