Delmon Young has been arrested and is facing charges of battery after allegedly threatening and then attacking a valet attendant at the Viceroy hotel in Miami, Fla., according to Peter Burke of Miami Local 10 News. Citing a Miami police report, Burke writes that Young choked and threatened to kill the attendant after being denied entry into a closed nightclub. The attendant escaped and ran for help. Police went to Young’s condominium and described the former Major League outfielder, who answered the door half naked, as “unsteady on his feet” with “slurred speech.” He allegedly made ethnically charged comments to both the attendant and the police.
This isn’t the first bout of legal problems that Young, formerly the No. 1 overall pick in the 2003 draft, has run into in recent years. Back in 2012 while playing for the Tigers, Young was arrested and charged with aggravated harassment, to which he eventually plead guilty, after tackling a man and shouting an anti-Semitic slur at a hotel in New York City.
Young, 30, has been in the Majors for parts of 10 seasons, splitting his time between the Rays (who drafted him), Twins, Tigers, Phillies and Orioles. Young, who is currently a free agent, spent parts of the past two seasons with the Orioles. He was released by Baltimore partway through the 2015 campaign and did not sign with a new organization.
Miami television station WPLG reported: “According to a Miami police report, Young grabbed a valet attendant by his neck and started to choke him after the attendant refused to let him into an elevator at the Brickell hotel. The attendant told Young that the club was closed but Young became irate and said, ‘Stupid Cuban. Open the (expletive) door. I’m here. Now what?’ ”
The TV station also reported that when police went to his condominium, “Young opened the door, naked from the waist down, so one of the officers asked him to get dressed, the report said…
“Police said Young was belligerent and told an officer, ‘I’ll slap you in the face with money, you (expletive) Cuban.”
What is it with Delmon and hotels???
As a longtime reader of this site, I don’t want to see stories about players who are no longer in baseball who are having legal issues. Has nothing to do with trade rumors of players who are still involved in the game, Young clearly is not.
Young has not retired from baseball, so an article about him is appropriate – and quite interesting since I am a Twins fan. There are articles about players in Japan and Korea. Are those not suitable? Go through the past month’s articles – I bet less than 10% of the articles are not about trade rumors.
When I see an article that doesn’t interest me, I simply don’t read it.
Keep these coming, MLBTradeRumors……
He is clearly not involved in the game nor will he ever return. He wasn’t good when he was around – no one’s signing him ever again. You can claim he’s not retired but it still doesn’t mean this is the kind of article this site should be writing. I don’t care at all about the legal problems of non-MLB players.
My question to you is: Why do you like hearing about stuff like this? I get it if it’s a current player, but a guy who is not under contract nor is being talked about being signed soon? Why do you want to read about this? It’s his personal life and doesn’t effect any MLB team in any way, shape or form. I don’t come here to read stuff like this and hate seeing it here.
What about the Freddy Garcia ariticle? How about when players go to japan? If you want to get technical, mlbtr shouldnt be writing articles on any signings, trades or dfa’s since they are not rumors. And this is relevant because its very likely closing the book on Youngs career. Like wjfo10 said, please keep this type of article coming
I mean if you don’t want to read the article, then don’t read it and skip over it. Nothing is stopping anyone from skipping an article. Its not like they are forcing us to read every single article.
He was not good the past few seasons, and yet Baltimore picked him up. Even with that in mind, there was a pretty good chance he would’ve snagged a Minor league contract. So with that in mind, this news is very relevant to a player who was looking for a contract. This incident will likely hinder his chances of that happening now, and this news shines light on why that would happen.
Another idea would be to skip over the article and read something that you find interesting.
he played last year and is no doubt looking for a new team to play for. it’s not like he’s been retired ten years.
“He wasn’t good when he was around – no one’s signing him ever again.”
If’ you’d have said a month ago that either Carlos Quentin or Delmon Young was going to try and make a come back, sign a minor league deal, and have an invite to spring training, I’m willing to bet at least 75% of the votes would been guessing the guy to sign the contract would have been Delmon. I agree, he wasn’t very good. That said far, far, far worse players have gotten contracts and gotten changes to make comebacks. It’s not quite as easy to figure out who’s completely done for as you seem to want to make it out to be. Obviously though, this makes it a lot more likely that Young is done, and the story also provides context for people wondering in a couple years why he never got that one more chance that so many other players seem to get.
Well Young did something similar when he was an active player in New York and he got many jobs after that so I don’t see your point?
Josh Lueke raped a woman and went to prison for it but stayed in the game. Matt Bush spent three years in prison for almost killing a man while drunk driving, and he’s in Texas’ camp.
He played last year and is a current free agent. This is still a relevant post for MLBTR. Less than a year removed and no retirement, he’s fair game to write on.
He has not retired and played as recently as last year. Therefore, he is still involved in the game.
Are you thinking of Demtri Young? Delmon Young played last year in quite a games.. He’s a free agent I think.
This really is no different than if a guy like say Craig breslow was arrested. The only difference would be breslow played the last 3 months of the season
And if Craig Breslow were to throw out anti Semitic comments everyone would be alot more confused.
That difference is massive.
Delmon played last year and hasn’t retired.
He doesn’t need to be retired to be considered retired. No teams going to touch him ever again. His career is over.
Stuff you’d perceive to be career-ending for a player is probably newsworthy enough for MLBTR
His career was ending while he was still in the game though. He was irrelevant for years before finally being told by MLB “you arent wanted here anymore”,
What in the world are you going on about? Delmon Young played last year in 50 games. He is still an active player. Its unlikely he will be playing anytime soon BECAUSE of this. He was not retired and was likely to play this year. This is a story that should be on a rumor site. Talk about nit picking.
You could say that about every 30 platoon or bench player in the last 100 years.
Not only that, but if you look at his batting line the last two years and look at a lot of the bench bats out there; there’s a definite chance that if it weren’t for incidents like this and his attitude in general, he’d still be getting a look somewhere as a bench piece
Who are you to dictate what the writers of this site do or don’t do? Do you pay for server space?
This guy is still in the majors and is newsworthy. It would be silly to not include it.
Classy
I was called a racist by 2 members on this board for mentioning this major racist as a big problem not 1 week ago… Wonder if either have the guts to come here to this article and make some kind of weak kneed apology?
Us in the T/Bay area got a minor bit of Young’s future early on, as well of the trouble he was going to bring. Tampa wisely shipped him off early on before the rest of the league caught a whiff in that one case, tho not several others they had over the years.
Throw the book at him. As a Florida resident? Send him to either 12th ct or 13th Ave to serve his punishment in Miami (hehe) would serve his ilk right.
Worse areas, but would be a start.
Don’t forget he threw a bat at an umpire.
Amazing he is still only 30. He was a beast off the bench for the Os but not good playing everyday and terrible in the field. Good behavior as an Oriole but he seems to have some racist tendencies.
I swore that guy was like 34 or 35 by now…
Well that should end his career once and for all.
Matt Bush ran over a guys had with his car, served jail time and still signed a minor league deal this winter. And Bush hasn’t had anywhere near the success of Delmon Young in his career. As long as teams can make a market inefficiency out of signing talented trouble makers, he’ll get an opportunity if he wants it….
You are glossing over the fact that he is terrible at baseball and always was.
He may be terrible now but he wasn’t always terrible. His career OPS+ is 98. Below average? Yes, but only barely. Terrible? Not by any stretch. He’s also had a few above average seasons, including one where he hit .298/.333/.493 with 21 HR and 112 RBI. His production that year was good for a 124 OPS+. He’s also a career .283 hitter so he knows how to hit. You can say that he is a bad hitter now and you’d receive no argument from me. But you can’t say he has always been terrible at baseball, because it’s simply not true.
He wasn’t always terrible. For a bit, he was good.
Don’t let his below MLB average baseball ability in the present, confuse the past.
I’m just saying that if a team was willing to give Matt Bush another chance, who has never appeared in a major league game, I don’t think it’s a stretch that Young will get another shot…
Rehab Delmon, before it’s to late.
delmon when we said you need to go down to florida and recharge your batteries for a while this is not what we meant
Well STOP enabling these pieces of garbage and maybe this stops ! Young should have been banned YEARS AGO !
If he gambled on baseball he would have.
Anyone expecting him to walk away clearly hasn’t seen his at-bats.
Hah, wrong box. To your point – what’s your point? Gamble, ban. So?
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent…
He had none to begin with.
You keep saying he had no talent and he isnt in baseball anymore. Just last year he was in baseball and he does have talent, he is a tremendous pinch hitter. This is baseball news. If you dont like it dont comment ten times about it.
A guy drafted #1 overall with no talent….? Let’s just shut this game down and turn off the lights if that’s the case.
He was drafted very high and given a lot of money at a time when the Rays were looking at talent 1st and not what was inside of the head.. Elijah Dukes, Delmon Young, Josh Hamilton, BJ Upton?
All had off field issues, 3 major and 2 criminal. I think Dukes is still in jail for his spouse battering charge here locally.
Before Friedman? The Rays didn’t seem to care one bit what was inside of a player’s head and only looked at raw skills. had it not been for maddon? Upton would have gone south way before he did and it’s telling that Young was shipped off after his rookie year (that was very productive) when he had a knack for being able to handle most of those head cases., except for Dukes that had his own personal 24hr “keeper” following him around.
Don’t know what BJ Upton did. But the Rays did employ convicted rapist Josh Lueke at one point.
Must have some if he made it to the big leagues. If he truly had no talent, then how come everyone isn’t making it there? I for sure have no baseball talent, but I never made it to the big leagues. I must’ve done something wrong then if Delmon Young, who also has no talent as you claim, did make the big leagues.
Everyone has an opinion but you should also consider facts when making them. Young was the 2012 ALCS MVP while with Detroit. He was not as All-Star but a solid offensive performer for several years.No debate regarding the fact that he seems to be a mean,terrible,violent drunk and not a nice human being. But to say he has (or had) no talent over and over makes you sound silly with a personal beef against him.
For the record this IS baseball news.
The one thing that Delmon could do was hit in the playoffs. He did it for Detroit, and then against Detroit. If only Fielder could have done as well.
Sounds like someone has something personal against Delmon. To say he never had any talent is ridiculous.
It was good to see the Orioles give Delmon a shot, he did okay but never got to where they hoped. Sad to see this happening.
Since he is still an active FA, this kind of blurb is worth noting his status. Thankfully MLBTradeRumors kept it concise and to the point. Delmon won’t be playing again. but he hasn’t retired yet.
“Just another Fan” is trolling you guys to create a ruse and rile you up. Don’t fall for the bait.
The bad thing is I honestly dont think he is trolling. I genuinely think all his posts are serious.
Looks like he can still hit! Stay away from Globe Life Delmon…
Delmon finished 2010 on fire leading the twins to the playoffs while Morneau suffered another concussion. What a shame