He also played one season in Japan for the Yokohama BayStars, and was a member of the United States' gold medal-winning baseball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

[1] In his major league career, Young played in 288 games, had 179 hits, 27 home runs, 90 RBI, 10 stolen bases, and a .225 batting average.

As a member of the Oakland Athletics, in a game against the Tigers, Young started a triple play with a leaping catch in center field.

Following his retirement after the 2007 season,[3] Young became the hitting coach on the Chicago White Sox' rookie-level team, the Great Falls Voyagers.

[4] In 2011, Young was tabbed to manage the West Michigan Whitecaps, the class A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers,[5] a position he retained for the 2012 season, but not for 2013.