season as their starting first baseman over Young, although on June 24, 2008, the Nationals announced that Johnson would have season-ending wrist surgery and named Young as the starting first baseman. On September 17, Young was declared officially out for the season due to his diabetes. 2010–Retirement After spending the 2009 season in the minor leagues, Young announced his retirement on March 18, 2010. On the same day, he was introduced as the Vice President and Senior Advisor of Baseball Operations and Special Hitting and Fielding Instructor of the Oakland County Cruisers minor league baseball team. After the 2011 season, Young announced he was attempting a comeback, but was not signed by any team. Post-retirement life Young began collecting baseball cards in 2000 when he and Reds teammate Danny Graves were offered $2,000 to appear at a card show. Young saw a Pete Rose rookie card and asked for it in lieu of the cash payment. In 2002, Tigers teammate Robert Fick introduced Young to Dave Bailey, a memorabilia collector, and the two eventually amassed perhaps the greatest collection of rookie cards in the world. He estimated that he spent $5 million of the $52 million he earned as a baseball player on his card collection. In 2010-11, Young co-hosted Card Corner Club Radio, a weekly sports card and collectibles show. In 2012, Young put nearly 500 of the mint condition rookie cards up for auction with plans to use the proceeds to open a baseball school and nonprofit foundation in Ventura County, California. The cards were auctioned individually and the collection ultimately fetched $2.4 million in total (equivalent to $ million in ). His 1955 Topps Roberto Clemente card fetched the highest price, setting a post-World War II record by selling for $432,690 (). Overall, six different cards in the collection sold for six figures. At his heaviest during his playing career, Young weighed and was the third-heaviest player in MLB history. , he had lost more than from his peak weight. Dmitri is currently the President of The Dmitri D. Young Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization providing baseball and life choices camps for student athletes in Southern California, in particular in Ventura County and with this alma mater, Rio Mesa High School. His foundation is awaiting IRS section 501(c)(3) status. In August 2020, Young was named the head baseball coach at Adolfo Camarillo High School in Camarillo, California.