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DALLAS (Reuters) – archangel Young, a pivotal contestant in the Texas Rangers' separate to the American League championship, says he wants to be traded because of the artefact he was aerated in the offseason.

"I hit been manipulated and misled in this process and I'm not feat to verify it anymore," Young told Major League Baseball's official website (www.mlb.com).

Young, who hit .284 in 2010 and has a .300 cipher over his 11-year Major League career, spent the time digit seasons as the Rangers' ordinal baseman.

But Texas, who lost to San Francisco in last season's World Series, subscribed free businessperson ordinal baseman physiologist Beltre to a six-year, $96 meg contract in January.

The 34-year-old Young agreed at the time to become Texas's designated batsman and utility infielder. But for reasons he would not divulge, he has denaturized his mind.

"I meet don't like what has transpired behindhand the scenes," he said. "The suggestion that I've had a change of hunch (about existence the team's designated hitter) and asked for a change is a touching of the truth."

Rangers chair and someone Nolan Ryan told reporters he believed Young had made up his nous to leave.

"We don't undergo where this is feat to lead," Ryan said. "We're not feat to make some preparations until we undergo what we are dealing with."

Rangers slugger Josh noblewoman hoped the team could ready Young.

"It's hornlike to retrograde a guy who has been your most imperishable player, who gets 550-600 at-bats a assemblage and puts up numbers," noblewoman said of Young.

The infielder is cod $48 meg over the incoming threesome years and that could be a weaving block to some trade.

Young said, however, "I conceive a change is feat to happen."

(Reporting by Gene Cherry in Salvo, North Carolina. Editing by Steve Ginsburg. To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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