YosemiteSam
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The Rangers are going to have a serious logjam at shortstop in a couple of years. :laugh2:
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Jurickson Profar has played on a big stage. He's produced against much older competition. Having not yet played for a full-season affiliate in the Rangers' Minor League system, he managed to make his mark in two cameo Spring Training appearances this March with the big league club. Now the question is whether the Rangers can figure out a way to slow the Profar train down to a sensible pace.
If he'll let them.
Profar made an international name for himself in the 2004 and 2005 Little League World Series, starring on the mound and at shortstop for Curacao, which won its first-ever title in the first of those two years and then lost in the title game in extra innings the next season. Major League organizations had to wait another four years before Profar would turn 16, and when he did the competition to sign him was intense -- though most clubs were interested in him as a pitcher. There were only three parties, reportedly, who preferred Profar as a shortstop: Texas, Baltimore and Profar himself.
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Jurickson Profar has played on a big stage. He's produced against much older competition. Having not yet played for a full-season affiliate in the Rangers' Minor League system, he managed to make his mark in two cameo Spring Training appearances this March with the big league club. Now the question is whether the Rangers can figure out a way to slow the Profar train down to a sensible pace.
If he'll let them.
Profar made an international name for himself in the 2004 and 2005 Little League World Series, starring on the mound and at shortstop for Curacao, which won its first-ever title in the first of those two years and then lost in the title game in extra innings the next season. Major League organizations had to wait another four years before Profar would turn 16, and when he did the competition to sign him was intense -- though most clubs were interested in him as a pitcher. There were only three parties, reportedly, who preferred Profar as a shortstop: Texas, Baltimore and Profar himself.
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