caption bats birth_place debutyear statyear statvalue team position statlabel debutdate birth_date number image article_title debutteam name throws
young with the seattle mariners right dallas , texas 2004 august 4 , 2015 73 -- 58 3.72 929 1.21 kansas city royals starting pitcher win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts whip august 24 25 may 1979 32 chris young mariners 2014.jpg chris young -lrb- pitcher -rrb-
 texas rangers chris young right
chris young -lrb- pitcher -rrb-

christopher ryan `` chris '' young -lrb- born may 25 , 1979 -rrb- is an american professional baseball right-handed pitcher for the kansas city royals of major league baseball -lrb- mlb -rrb- .
he made his major league debut on august 24 , 2004 , with the texas rangers and has also played for the san diego padres , new york mets and seattle mariners .
he had previously excelled in basketball and baseball at highland park high school in university park , texas and princeton university .
young helped highland park reach the class 4a region ii basketball final in 1997 and the class 4a texas state basketball final in 1998 .
he tossed a no-hitter in 1997 while compiling a 6 -- 0 record , helping highland park reach the class 4a texas state baseball final .
during his senior year , he was district most valuable player in basketball , and led his baseball team to the state championship , while pitching in two no-hitters .
that year , he was a first-team all-state selection in basketball and baseball .
after a high school career as an athlete and scholar , young excelled in both baseball and basketball for princeton university and became the ivy league 's first male two-sport rookie of the year .
selected by the pittsburgh pirates in the third round of the june 2000 draft , he had brief professional experiences in the pirates , montreal expos , and texas rangers minor league systems before debuting with the rangers in august 2004 .
young 's professional baseball career took off in the 2006 season , when he was the major league leader in opponent batting average , hits per nine innings and road earned run average -lrb- era -rrb- and was named the national league pitcher of the month for june .
additionally , he extended his streak of consecutive undefeated games started as a visiting pitcher to 24 , and secured the only padres win in the team 's 3 -- 1 series loss to the st. louis cardinals in the 2006 national league division series .
in 2007 , he defended his opponent batting average and hits per nine innings titles , but instead of winning the road era title he won the home era title .
he is , which makes him , along with former pitchers eric hillman and randy johnson and current pitchers andrew sisco and andrew brackman , the second tallest player in baseball history , next to relief pitcher jon rauch -lrb- who is and young 's teammate on the 2012 new york mets -rrb- .
he was elected to the 2007 mlb all-star game as a first-time all-star via the all-star final vote .
