Baseball America rated 19-year-old shortstop Jurickson Profar as the top prospect of the Texas Rangers. The Willemstad, Curacao native made his Major League debut this summer, going 3-for-17 with one homerun, two doubles, two runs and two RBI in nine games. In the Minors he batted .281/.368/.452 in 126 games for Double-A Frisco in the Texas League. He was playing winter ball in the Dominican Republic, but was shut down by the Rangers recently due to a sore right forearm.
General manager Jon Daniels said the team has not made a decision on whether Profar will be slotted as an every-day infielder in 2013.
“We may go that way, but we haven’t set that in stone,” Daniels said Thursday. “It’s still up in the air. It’s a possibility. It’s something we’ve talked a decent amount about. Some of that depends on other things we have going on. We do feel he’s capable of doing that.”
He could play for the Netherlands at the 2013 World Baseball Classic.