Teammates for years, Texas Rangers legends Adrián Beltré and Michael Young enjoyed being competitive again.
The pair surrounded themselves with former Rangers on their coaching staffs, and they kidded each other during their pre-game press conference, which lasted nearly 30 minutes. Beltré talked a lot about preparing for his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame next weekend. Young talked a lot about Beltré.“A.B. and I are both going to try — he told me he's 2-0, intends to go 3-0,” Young said.
Before the game, Beltré and Young hadn’t had much time to talk with their players but they hoped they would get the chance to field questions during the contest. “For those guys here, we're going to talk about that today,” Beltré said. “Not just to be a good player, but a good human being. You always want to create leaders, not only for the game; for life too.”
Young and Beltré were competitive throughout their careers, both as opponents and as teammates. They also talked about their early days as “sit in the corner and be quiet rookies,” and hoped that Saturday would give them both something to pass on to some of the top prospects in the game. “It's one day,” Young said. “So it's hard to make big connections, but if there's one thing that we can do to talk to these kids about, when you're playing, of course, you're having fun and it's all part of it. But play to win. Show up and play to win. Everybody's going to feed off of that.”Amid it all, MLB's No.
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