Jurickson Profar is one of those players that’s instrumental to a clubhouse. He is known for smiling all of the time and just seems to have an infectious personality. However, he still doesn’t provide a whole lot of value offensively in terms of run production and power. It showed in 2021.
Let’s first go back to his first season in a Padres uniform. 2020 was obviously a shortened season and Profar took advantage of it, as he parlayed a 1.3 WAR season into a three-year, $21 million deal with San Diego. At the time, I thought it was a pretty nice deal for the Padres because of Profar’s positional versatility and the fact that he could fill in for Tommy Pham and Eric Hosmer in left field and at first base, respectively.