Young retires as a Ranger

Michael Young slipped on a No. 10 Texas Rangers jersey for one last time.

Young formally announced his retirement Friday after returning to Rangers Ballpark, his baseball home for all but the final of his 13 seasons. He called his time in Texas the best years of his life.

“I came kind of confident, and stubborn, with a lot to learn,” Young said. “In a lot of ways was still immature, trying to figure out who I was and what I wanted to do and what I wanted to be about, and I figured it all out here.”

A seven-time All-Star, Young, 37, is the Rangers’ career leader with 2,230 hits. This infielder finished as a career .300 hitter in 1,970 games for Texas, Philadelphia and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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