Sept. 8: The Padres have formally announced the Profar and Rosario moves. San Diego has placed Sanchez on the 10-day injured list and moved righty Alek Jacob to the 60-day IL in order to open space on the roster.
Sept. 7: The Padres will select Jurickson Profar back onto the major league roster, reports Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune. The Friars also plan to recall infielder Eguy Rosario from Triple-A. San Diego will presumably announce the moves before tomorrow’s series opener in Houston.
Profar returns to San Diego for the first time this year. The one-time top prospect spent the 2020-22 campaigns with the Friars. He hit .244/.333/.375 over that stretch, including a .243/.331/.391 showing in 152 games a year ago. He opted out of the final season of his contract and joined the Rockies on a $10MM free agent deal late in Spring Training, presumably after not finding the multi-year pact he’d been anticipating.
The 30-year-old’s stint in Denver didn’t work out. Profar slumped to a .236/.316/.364 slash despite spending half his games at Coors Field. While the delayed start to the season probably didn’t do him any favors, he never seemed to find a rhythm. Profar was hitting just .210/.288/.324 from the start of the second half until Colorado released him on August 27.
A few days later, the Padres brought him back on a minor league deal. Profar only suited up in four games for their top affiliate in El Paso before earning a return to the MLB roster. San Diego will have to formally select him onto the 40-man roster, though that won’t be an obstacle. The Friars could place any of Jake Cronenworth, Gary Sánchez or Ji Man Choi on the 60-day injured list to create a spot.
Profar has played exclusively left field at the MLB level over the past two seasons but picked up a couple starts at first base in Triple-A. He had plenty of infield experience earlier in his career and could potentially move around off the bench. With San Diego’s playoff hopes extinguished, it’s simply a depth add for the final few weeks. Profar will return to free agency at the start of the offseason. San Diego will pay him at the prorated $720K minimum level with the Rockies on the hook for the rest of his salary.
Dude has been in the league since 2012! Only 9 games that year but still more than i expected. Very up and down career
Mostly down
$34M in career earnings, so he’s been up often enough.
I think I remember there being a fair amount of hype for him as a prospect? I’ve always felt he kinda lived that down? San Diego is a good fit for him and I guess bringing him back cheap after Colorado already ate the poison from the apple fit SD front office plans better?
More than a fair share. The guy was the number 1 prospect in the league.
Jurickson Profar might just carry the Padres to the post-season with his negative WAR by making the rest of his team hit well with runners on
I’m not sure the Padres should use Select Jurickson Profar. At least get Choice grade Jurickson Profar. Even spring for Premium Jurickson Profar! There’s not much time left…
I’m sure Brian Cashman is dissapointed that he didn’t trade the entire farm system to the Rangers in the early 2010s for Profar.
Butterfly effect. The Rangers screwed up Profar’s development because they denied him big league reps when he was clearly ready. Of course, they had Kinsler, Andrus, and Beltre blocking him from infield action, but still. We’ll never know how he would have done as a Yankee.
This is another reason why i advocate for teams in their window to trade prospects who need big league reps but aren’t ready for championship level baseball. The sport is better when players are allowed to realize their full potential.
Play Profar’s career out 20 more times in alternare universes and there are some scenarios where he is a hall of famer. He had insane natural talent that just didn’t blossom.
@ejemp2006
While I agree on the spend prospect capital especially when your in a win all window. Then again it’s hard to trade a talent that has the potential to be a at minimum hall of good potential for a guy that might only help you for 6 months to a year and some change.
Your hypothetical is interesting. I have often thought about how many prospects not panning out merely because they were drafted by a team with inept baseball development staff. I sure hope that number is low, and that prospects with true talent will often shine forth regardless of the help around them from a baseball development perspective.
The butterfly effect always wins…
Even if Cashman is disappointed…
Watch him put up the same stats for the Padres that he did for the Rockies. Analysts will say “Profar has had a resurgence with the Padres” even though the the only difference in his stats will be what ballpark he played in. Park adjusted stats are garbage. People forget about his 30 something game on base streak from earlier in the year. Great bench guy/ fourth outfielder to have
Random but I absolutely love your account name 🙂
“Park adjusted stats are garbage.”
Do you think playing in Denver is the same as playing in San Diego or Miami?
@gbs42 Yes its 100% the same. You forget how these guys at Coors get used to the altitude and when they go to other ballparks they perform worse due to having to make adjustments on the fly. Look at Lemeheui, same stats that he had on Colorado when he went to the Yankees. Nolan Arenado, Larry Walker, etc. Then you have guys like Profar, Jose Reyes, Daniel Murphy etc. who had “bad” seasons in Colorado but thrived in other places
Let me try a different question. Do you think a .300/.400/.500 season with 35 HR is as impressive for a Rockies player as it is for a Padre or Marlin?
@gbs42 yes I do. Pre humidifier Coors was infact hitters paradise, I’ll admit that. Now though I do not see Coors as such a big advantage for a hitter. Its not like everyone on the Rockies is hitting amazing this year
I like how you pivoted because the response made sense so you needed to rephrase your question to see if it was still a valid view?
COORS field does nothing to help a hitter.. it messes with pitchers thus giving the effect hitters do better there post humidor… pre humidor it was hitters Paridise? Let me ask you, do you think it’s easier hitting in Coors field than it is in Arizona? They have virtually the same altitude? Could explain why hitters struggle when traded Away from Arizona to other places, but NOBODY talks about that like they do COORS field? It blows my mind to Saturn and back?
Upton is one… other players like Richie Sexton didn’t do so well there? JD Martinez put up video game numbers ND translated that into a 5 year deal with Boston? Was he as good with Boston as he was with Arizona? No, but he didn’t fall off a cliff either by WRC he was better than league average I’d guess, but nothing like the damn near 160-180 (estimate) he posted in Arizona?
@Hippyripper JD Martinez put up one of the best offensive seasons ever for a DH in Mookie’s MVP year in Boston, what are you talking about. As for JD’s amazing half season in Arizona, it was a small sample size and he got moved to a contender. He basically got hot with Arizona because he had something to play for. Has nothing to do with the ballpark
“They have virtually the same altitude”
Uh, not even close. Phoenix is about 1000 feet above sea level and Denver is more than 5000 feet above sea level.
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He can play a little first too. Which the padres need another option there with cronenworth out. Obviously cooper can play there as well.
Why? He has no ceiling. Any random call up would be likely to outperform him. If they want some one to play 1B, they could have re-signed Hosmer.
I’m pretty sure Trey Mancini or Hosmer would be better options than Profar. He doesn’t bring anything to the table, at least Hosner has clutch hit moments and Mancini can at least flash some power.
LOL, just setting Seidlers money on fire at this point.
Peter wake up, AJ Preller has no idea what he is doing!
Pro-rated minimum for Profar, but ok… If they go absolutely crazy and make the playoffs, he’s eligible since he was in the organization before 9/1.
7 games out with 21 to play and 4 teams in front of them.
Get real.
They aren’t making the playoffs.
Seems Preller is giving Profar a second chance to earn a 2024 contract, since he blew it in Colorado. That’s all fine and good, but the Padres are in a ridiculous tier of the tax. Incurring more tax burden for a player that snubbed you not even 12 months ago, just so that HE can try and impress other teams is exactly what you would expect from the Padres front office.
Peter Seidler needs to put his foot in AJ’s a$$. Asta la vista AJ
Haha, preller doesn’t hand out these contracts. He doesn’t have seidlers account number. Seidler is the one spending all this money. Preller is just helping him spend it.
No gm goes out and just signs guys and spends money that isn’t approved by the owner. Heck Seidler the padres owner is the one that made sure manny got extended. He was in the room convincing Xander to sign here. Owners approve of all spending and even the direction of the team. If Seidler wanted to he could have told preller you have a budget of day 100m. Then preller would have had no choice but to let prospects come up and play to reduce cost. Instead Seidler said he wants stars and he likes spending money. These are he actual words. So preller did what he asked.
What AJP is doing sells tickets, but seldom wins.
You do remember that they made it to the NLCS last year right? Knocked out some good teams along the way.
Even if Seidler wants to spend he needs to find someone better at it than Preller. So while you may be on to something, it doesn’t really change the need to fire Preller. The dude flat out sucks at assembling MLB rosters, spending money, not spending money, he has tried it every way possible.
If you think an NLCS appearance in 2022 makes up for the pitiful performance in 2023 then you need higher standards.
I mean they went after all the best bats this offseason. Had the highest offer and Turner and judge then had to settle for Xander. Look at Xanders history it’s hard to argue he isn’t a really good hitter.
Just didn’t work out this year mainly because of some under performance from hitters and mainly the lack of being clutch. Run differential tells you they should be better.
99 – so how does it compare to getting knocked out by a padres in 22 after an historic season only to come back in 23 to be much worse and to limp into the playoffs and likely get knocked out in first round AGAIN, i.e., not even making the NLCS.
I’m speaking of the Dodgers of course
In case you were wondering.
At least the Padres have the 22 NLCS and knocking out Dodgers and Mets.
Profar set the Rox’s money on fire, not Preller.
Let’s sign a 30 y.o. guy with a career 92 OPS+ to play LF for us, so that we can move an aging and injury-prone Bryant to RF where he had maybe 40 career starts prior to 2023.
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