Chris Young resolves to contribute for New York Mets - MLB Update
Chris Young is upbeat to contribute for the New York Mets even in the Minor League. Enduring a right shoulder injury last season and thus not playing for more than four games, he repents his absence from the scene since then.
Mets signed him in 2011 against the backdrop of his experience and excellent performance in 2006 season when he won many laurels. Just when he was about to prove his worth by helping Mets win few games at the start, as he did also, he met with an injury
and thus was put on disabled list.
At the end of season, he lingered in free agency with hardly any club interested to take him in the backdrop of shoulder injury’s aftershocks he still sustained.
Surgery he went through just recently of torn anterior capsule at right shoulder has somehow now rendered him in a position to assume some time on the mound.
As he admits that he kept himself out of the play deliberatively in order to recover properly, he is gradually feeling better to perform at the big stage.
Finally Mets have agreed with him a Minor League contract. By the dint of his success there, he aims to move toward his ultimate goal.
“Having tasted the success and being part of a team environment and all the fun stuff that comes along with it, I wanted to be a part of it and I believe that I can,” said Young.
Team source has revealed that Young is still not ready for playing at Minor League and will not be available at least until mid-May.
When Young was asked as to why he inked Minor League contract so late when he may have done so earlier, he maintained that he wanted to give his shoulder time to recover before using it. Unless he said he will find a right time, he will not drag himself
there forcibly.
“You get in a baseball environment and you start pushing things and I didn’t want to be in that situation,” Young said. “I wanted to make sure when I signed it was the right timing for my shoulder recovery, because that’s the most important part.”
A player bordering on the end of his career and playing in Minor League, it will be a boon like scenario that he actually returns to Major League by his performance. As Young has expressed the resolve that he will, it will be interesting to see how far he
goes in his quest.
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