The point of this morning’s entry, as it cooked in my head the past few days, was going to be that if I were another team, I’d be aggressively trying to pry Jurickson Profar free from Texas, like Sandy Alomar Jr. blocked by Benito Santiago, Jeff Bagwell stuck behind Scott Cooper, Michael Young caught in a Felipe Lopez-Brett Abernathy-Cesar Izturis thicket that Doug Melvin capitalized on.
Objectively, Profar should not be available, or even up for a meaningful discussion. But he is, and not only because no player is untouchable in a Jon Daniels organization — he is because, the way the team is constructed, Profar certainly has greater value than as a player you can move all over the field to give teammates time to recover or just a day off here and there.