{"id":9658,"date":"2014-12-12T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9658"},"modified":"2014-12-12T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:35:08","slug":"rangers-jurickson-profar-to-begin-season-in-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/12\/rangers-jurickson-profar-to-begin-season-in-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers: Jurickson Profar to begin season in minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/juricksonprofar.jpg\" alt=\"juricksonprofar\" width=\"594\" height=\"443\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9659\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/juricksonprofar.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/12\/juricksonprofar-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nAfter Jurickson Profar missed the entire 2014 season with a shoulder injury it should come as little surprise that the Texasn Rangers plan to start the 21-year-old in the minors when next season gets underway. <\/p>\n<p>While the Rangers have been encouraged by the recovery of Profar they have him ticketed for Triple-A to start the year rather than contend for a spot as a bench bat.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers general manager Jon Daniels ruled out Profar on the team to start the season. &#8220;He needs to play. We\u2019re not going to keep him as our utility guy.&#8221; said Daniels via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/mlb\/texas-rangers\/article4426019.html\" target=\"_blank\">Star Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been more conservative and patient, and he\u2019s starting from the point where he\u2019s a bigger man,\u201d Daniels said. \u201cThere more muscle supporting the joint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers also have no intention to deal Profar.<\/p>\n<p>Though 94 career games Profar owns a .231\/.301\/.343 line with seven home runs and 32 runs scored at the big league level.<\/p>\n<p>For now Rougned Odor will begin the season as the Rangers second baseman. Odor, 20, finished last season with a .259\/.297\/.402 line with nine home runs and 48 RBI across 114 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Jurickson Profar missed the entire 2014 season with a shoulder injury it should come as little surprise that the Texasn Rangers plan to start the 21-year-old in the minors when next season gets underway. While the Rangers have been encouraged by the recovery of Profar they have him ticketed for Triple-A to start the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[893,501,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-jurickson-profar","tag-mlb","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9660,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions\/9660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}