Infielder Michael Young, a seven-time All-Star and the team leader in numerous offensive categories, has been selected as the 20th member of the Texas Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame, it was announced today.
 
Young will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in pre-game ceremonies on Saturday, July 30 at Globe Life Park in Arlington. The ceremony will begin at approximately 6:45 p.m. with first pitch of the Rangers game with the Kansas City Royals being moved to 7:35 p.m.
 
The 39-year-old Young, who re-joined the Rangers as Special Assistant to the General Manager in November 2014, retired in January 2014 after an outstanding 13-year major league career.
 
Acquired by Texas from the Toronto Blue Jays in July 2000, Young played in a team record 1,823 games from 2000-12. He captured Rangers Player of the Year honors five times, matching Juan Gonzalez for the most in team history and was selected to the A.L. All-Star team at three different positions. Young batted .300 or better a club record seven times including six seasons with at least 200 hits. He won the A.L. batting title in 2005 and was the MVP of the 2006 All-Star Game at San Diego. Young is the only player in All-Star Game history with two game-winning hits in his team's final at bat (2006 and 2008),
 
He is the Washington/Texas' all-time leader in games, hits (2230), runs (1085), doubles (415), triples (55), total bases (3286), at bats (7399), and multi-hit games (651) and ranks third in RBI (984) and extra base hits (647) while batting .301 with 177 homers. Young was a starter at all four infield positions in his Rangers career, earning a Gold Glove at shortstop in 2008.
 
Overall, Young batted .300 with 185 homers and 1030 RBI in 1970 games with the Rangers (2000-2012), Phillies (2013), and Dodgers (2013).
 
Young's work in the community earned him two Major League Baseball Players Association Marvin Miller Man of the Year Awards (2008 and 2011) and the Rangers 2010 Jim Sundberg Community Achievement Award. Michael and his wife, Cristina Barbosa, currently serve on the Board of Directors for the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation and remain very active in the community.
 
The 2016 Alumni Legacy Weekend begins with the Dr Pepper Texas Rangers Hall of Fame Luncheon on Friday, July 29 at the Arlington Convention Center. A number of Rangers Hall of Famers is expected to be in attendance. Net proceeds benefit the Rangers Baseball Foundation, and tickets can be purchased at texasrangers.com/community/luncheon or by calling 817-622-7883. The luncheon which is also sponsored by FOX Sports Southwest, 105.3 The FAN, CBS11, and TXA21, begins at 11:30 a.m.
 
TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME MEMBERS (Year Inducted in parentheses)
 
Charlie Hough (2003)
Johnny Oates (2003)
Nolan Ryan (2003)
Jim Sundberg (2003)
Buddy Bell (2004)
Ferguson Jenkins (2004)
Tom Vandergriff (2004)
Mark Holtz (2005)
John Wetteland (2005)
Rusty Greer (2007)
Toby Harrah (2009)
Ruben Sierra (2009)
Tom Grieve (2010)
Kenny Rogers (2011)
Eric Nadel (2012)
Ivan Rodriguez (2013)
Tom Schieffer (2014)
Juan Gonzalez (2015)
Jeff Russell (2015)
Michael Young (2016)