Chris Young on the Rangers' 8-2 start, hitting woes, bullpen success

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Texas Rangers president of baseball ops Chris Young joined the GBAG Nation to discuss the team's hot start to the 2025 season despite their struggles at the plate, what it's like pitching in the cold environments the team will face in Chicago this week, his thoughts on the new-look bullpen early in the season and more!

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00:00Hey, CY, you know, with Jack Leiter getting off to such a really nice start for you, though,

00:20any update on his situation with the blister?

00:22Yeah, it's healing up.

00:25There's some new skin growing in, and it's not as raw as it was a couple days ago.

00:30It's one of these things where every week, if we continue to run him out there, it's

00:33going to get a little bit worse to the point where we're missing significant time.

00:38So we felt like it was prudent just to nip this in the bud right now and give him some

00:42extra time to heal, get this right, and hopefully he'll roll right back into the rotation, pick

00:47up where he left off as soon as this feels better, which should be right at the end of

00:50the 15-day IL stint.

00:53If he needs any extra fingers or anything like that, I'd be happy to give mine up so

00:56he can continue to pitch.

00:58How hard is your finger to throw a fastball?

01:00I'll tell you what, I will do anything to get Jack Leiter the ability to go back out

01:04there and pitch.

01:05He's just done such a great job.

01:06Well, we don't want your 68-mile-an-hour fastballs, we want his 100-mile-an-hour fastballs.

01:09No, no, CY, it's just a finger, right?

01:12It's a finger, it has skin on it, right?

01:14He's telling you to keep your damn finger, Brian.

01:17No, I appreciate the offer.

01:20I'll let Jack know.

01:21I'm sure he'll be real happy about that.

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