Summarizing Jurickson Profar’s 2021 season

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images 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…