Two of the Rangers' cornerstone players have been oft injured early in their careers. When it comes to Josh Jung and Evan Carter, what are reasonable expectations for them in 2025 as they both enter the season healthy?
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00:00Josh Young and Evan Carter are healthy.
00:19They're ready to roll.
00:22What are reasonable expectations for both of them though, because look, like at FanFest
00:32on Saturday, Josh Young talked about, hey, he's gotten injured several years in a row
00:39because it came up that he'd gotten injured two years in a row and he said four years
00:42in a row and, oh yeah, yeah.
00:45And so he said four years in a row, five surgeries, somebody joked, okay, but who's counting?
00:52And he said me.
00:53And so like very serious about it.
00:58We talked about Evan Carter had had what we were all really concerned about with his back
01:04specifically and maybe some with his neck last year, but now they're both ready to go
01:10as of now.
01:11But I don't think you can go into this season and reasonably say Evan Carter and Josh Young
01:17will both play like 145 games.
01:20Like if you disagree, rock on.
01:22I hope you are.
01:23I even say a hundred.
01:24Yeah.
01:25So where do you fall in terms of reasonable expectations for what these two can provide,
01:32both in terms of availability and what they do?
01:34Yeah.
01:35The thing with Josh Young is it seems like everything's this freak accident.
01:38It seems like everything is some weird, like how did that happen to you?
01:42And he's like, I don't know.
01:44That's how it feels with Josh Young.
01:46Kevin, last year he kind of picked up where he left off the previous season.
01:51He was batting the previous year, 266.
01:53He was batting 264 last year, early in the season, seven home runs.
01:56He'd finished the year before 23, seven home runs through 46 games.
02:01He was on trajectory to have 30 something home runs.
02:04Is that about right?
02:05Yeah.
02:06And then, so as I'm looking at him, he was picking up, he was fine.
02:10His season was going to be good.
02:13The weird health moment happened.
02:15So if he was able to get to 140, 130, that's a celebration.