Jurickson Profar | |||
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Profar with the Texas Rangers in 2016
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Texas Rangers – No. 19 | |||
Infielder | |||
Born: Willemstad, Curaçao |
February 20, 1993 |||
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MLB debut | |||
September 2, 2012, for the Texas Rangers | |||
MLB statistics (through September 8, 2016) |
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Batting average | .241 | ||
Hits | 131 | ||
Home runs | 12 | ||
Runs batted in | 46 | ||
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Career highlights and awards | |||
Jurickson Barthelomeus Profar (born February 20, 1993) is a Curaçaoan professional baseball infielder for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Profar participated in both the 2004 and 2005 Little League World Series. He helped the Pabao Little League team from Willemstad, Curaçao beat the Conejo Valley East Little League team from Thousand Oaks, California to win the championship in 2004. He helped lead the team to the championship game again in 2005, but this time lost to West Oahu Little League from Ewa Beach, Hawaii.
Profar signed with the Texas Rangers on July 2, 2009. Other teams wanted to sign Profar as a pitcher, but the Rangers signed him as a shortstop, his preferred position. He spent his first professional season in 2010 playing for the Spokane Indians. He hit .250 with four home runs and 23 runs batted in in 63 games.
Prior to the 2011 season Profar was ranked by Baseball America as the Texas Rangers second best overall prospect and the 74th best overall. He played the 2011 season for the Hickory Crawdads. He was selected to represent the Rangers at the 2011 All-Star Futures Game.Baseball America ranked him as the 12th best prospect in baseball during their midseason top 50 list. He finished the season hitting .286/.390/.493 with 12 home runs and 65 runs batted in and was named the South Atlantic League MVP. He was named the shortstop on Baseball America's 2011 Minor League All Star team. He was named to appear in the 2012 All-Star Futures Game.