Jurickson Profar

Jurickson Barthelomeus Profar (born February 20, 1993) is a Curaçaoan professional baseball outfielder for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB).

He has previously played in MLB for the Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, and Colorado Rockies.

He is the first player born in 1993 to play in the majors and was the youngest player active in the major leagues.

In his major league debut, Profar started at second base in place of Ian Kinsler, who was out due to back stiffness, and hit a home run off of Zach McAllister in his first major league at bat.

He then later doubled in his second at-bat, and went 2-for-4 for the game.

In nine games, Profar batted .176 with a home run and two RBIs while playing five games at second base and three games at shortstop.

Profar was born in Willemstad and has been involved in organized baseball from a young age, representing Curaçao at the Little League World Series in 2004 and 2005.

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 team lost to West Oahu Little League from Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

In 2009, when he was 16 years old, Profar signed with the Rangers as an international free agent.

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 batted .250 with four home runs and 23 runs batted in (RBIs) 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.

He was named the shortstop on Baseball America's 2011 Minor League All Star team.

He was called up to the major leagues in 2012 and received partial playing time in his first two seasons as a utility player.

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's most valuable player.

He was named to appear in the 2012 All-Star Futures Game.

On August 31, 2012, Profar was called up to the Rangers as major league rosters expanded and as a possible postseason addition.

Profar started the 2013 season in Triple-A Round Rock.

In May 2013, the Rangers called up Profar while putting Kinsler on the 15-day disabled list.

In a May 26 game at Seattle, he hit his second career home run off Hisashi Iwakuma while batting leadoff for the first time in his major league career.

In 88 games, Profar batted .234 with six home runs and 26 RBIs.

He played four positions in 2013 with shortstop, second base, third base, and left field while also serving as the designated hitter for 20 games.

After the 2013 season, the Rangers traded Kinsler, anticipating that Profar would become the Rangers' starting second baseman.

Profar started the 2014 season on the 60-day disabled list, and was not expected to return until mid-June.

On May 22, the Rangers organization announced Profar had reinjured his shoulder, and as a result missed the entire 2014 season.

On February 23, 2015, Profar underwent surgery on his shoulder and missed the entire 2015 season.

After suffering a shoulder injury, Profar missed two full seasons and did not rejoin the Rangers until mid-2016 when he filled an active roster vacancy.

After missing a total of two seasons due to the shoulder injury, Profar was optioned to the team's Triple-A affiliate Round Rock Express on March 21, 2016.

Texas continued to use Profar sparingly until 2018 when he played more than 100 games in a season for the first time in his career.

After ten years in the Rangers organization, Profar was traded to the Athletics for the 2019 season.

He received a more static role at second base with Oakland, but he was traded to the Padres after struggling on both offense and defense.

Upon arriving in San Diego, Profar was transitioned from a utility infielder to an outfielder, primarily playing in left field.

In 2022, he set career highs in plate appearances and hits.