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Chris Young won’t ‘sugarcoat’ failure with Mets

The Yankees would like to cash in on a Mets bust, Chris Young.

Young is one of eight players the Yankees summoned as September call-ups Tuesday. Young signed a one-year, $7.25 million free agent deal with the Mets in November and was released last month following a disastrous .205 season. The Yankees signed him Aug. 27 as a free agent and assigned him to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

“It didn’t go as planned. No real way to sugarcoat it,” said Young of his Mets tenure. “You go into a season expecting to do big things and it just didn’t work out. For the 250 at-bats I had there, I should have done more. When you struggle, that’s going to take away your playing time.”

Young made no excuses and admitted he was a disappointment on a grand scale in Queens.

“I hold myself fully accountable,” Young said before the Yankees’ 9-4 loss to the Red Sox at the Stadium. “But at the same time you have to let it go. This is a new team. They’re on a path to try to make a playoff push right now and there’s no real reason to hold onto the past. What’s done is done. All I can try to do is make the most of this opportunity. That’s what I’ve been excited about.”

There is one other real silver lining in the whole ordeal, beyond the obvious second chance stuff: Young held on to his living quarters when he was given his Mets release.

“Got to keep my same place. I was just about to the process of getting my furniture out and something told me, ‘Just don’t do it, you never know,’” Young said.

His Yankees clubhouse arrangements have him in a rather high-profile spot. While some call-ups are crammed into makeshift locker stalls in the middle of the room, Young has taken over Alex Rodriguez’s locker.

“Just found that out 45 minutes ago,” Young said after batting practice with really nothing else to say about the former resident of the prime real estate.

The Yankees, whose margin for error is somewhere between invisible and non-existent, hope Young can recapture some of the offensive form that helped him hit 116 homers from 2006-11.

“Young’s been pretty productive in his career versus left-handers,” manager Joe Girardi said.

Asked if it were ironic to be back in the same town where he was recently released, Young said, yes, very.

“I don’t know how many times this has happened but it worked out great. I had a little time off at home to see the family and then right back at it,” Young said. “It’s exciting to say even down the road that I got a chance to play for the Mets and the Yankees, whether in the same year or 10 years apart. To be able to experience all of New York, I’m happy about that.”

— Additional reporting by Dan Martin