TORONTO — The latest issue of USA Today sat folded on a table in the middle of the Red Sox clubhouse yesterday.

The front-page headline read, “Catastrophe,” in all capital letters, directly beneath an unrecognizable picture of Chris Young’s hometown.

Young grew up in the southwest corner of the greater Houston area, in a town called Bellaire, and all of his immediate family remains in the Texas city that’s currently underwater from Hurricane Harvey.

Images of Houston’s flooded highways and neighborhoods have become staples of the national news in recent days, and Young said he’s followed along with regular conversations — hourly, he said — with loved ones who are dealing with the devastation in real time.

And the fact they’re staying put, safe as could be under the circumstances, leaves Young free to focus on his task at hand.