Rangers lock in Chris Young with multi-year extension & promotion from GM

The Texas Rangers aim to keep Chris Young's services and are even promoting him less than one full season after he guided the team to a World Series title. This was the final year of his deal, which was initially signed in 2021, but he will stick around for the foreseeable future now.

The team's announcement did not denote how long the extension was for. However, given that they not only extended but promoted him from general manager to president of baseball operations, it is reasonable to expect that the final contract will be rather lengthy.

Young aggressively spent as the Rangers tried to build something, giving Corey Seager, Jacob deGrom, Nathan Eovaldi, Marcus Semien and others a lot of money over the last few seasons. It resulted in a World Series and a promotion/extension with the team.

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Rangers keeping Chris Young despite down 2024

With Chris Young's contract set to expire at the end of the 2024 season — a year in which the Texas Rangers are all but certain to miss the postseason and fail to defend their 2023 title — it might have been a fine time to consider a change in direction.

Chris Young will remain with the Rangers for the foreseeable future (Imagn)

The Rangers, after winning it all last year, have just not been very good so far this year. They're below .500 and 7.5 games out of arguably the worst division in baseball this year. The stage was set for a division title and a good chance at a repeat, but the team fell woefully short.

Still, the Rangers are sticking with Young now and in the future. They believe what he achieved in bringing them from a 102-loss team in 2021 to the World Series just two years later, which is a difficult feat to pull off.

The core of the Rangers, which includes the aforementioned Seager, Semien, Wyatt Langford, Josh Jung and Nathaniel Lowe, will be around for a while, and the Rangers believe Young is the man to oversee all of it.