While it seems to be a foregone conclusion that the Phillies will trade third baseman Michael Young prior to the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline. However, he may not be going anywhere at all. MLB Network's Peter Gammons says that he is hearing that Phillies are telling teams that Young is not available:
Fwiw, when Yanks asked about Michael Young last week they were told he wasn't avalible
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) July 13, 2013
When Young accepted a trade to the Phillies, he negotiated no-trade protection into his deal. He may have told the team that he fully plans to invoke it and will not go anywhere. As we saw from Young's stint on the bereavement list, he may have some important family matters to attend to and therefore will not accepted a trade, regardess.
Or, perhaps this tweet from Gammons was just the random combination of characters that he is used to posting.
