Pro active.

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. While he makes this pennant contender a much better team than it would be without him, it’s at least imaginable that he could be converted, via trade, into an even more valuable piece of the puzzle, at least during the Beltre/Darvish (Desmond?) Window.

But late Wednesday afternoon, the idea behind this writing — and the look of the Rangers’ depth chart — changed, with news that Prince Fielder has a C4/5 disc herniation and was on a plane back to Texas for a medical consult to determine the next step. Some in the media have speculated that another neck surgery could be on the table, and if so, Fielder’s 2016 season, at the very least, would be over.

Shin-Soo Choo (who received an injection yesterday to address inflammation in his lower back) joined Fielder on the disabled list, but while Delino DeShields was the reasonably expected recall to take Choo’s place, it wasn’t Joey Gallo who got the call to replace Fielder on the active roster. It was utility infielder Hanser Alberto, for what, at least in immediate retrospect, is an obvious reason: the club needs a utility infielder, because Jurickson Profar is vacating that role, slated to get Prince Fielder’s full-time at-bats.

Those at-bats could come at DH some nights. On others, it could be as the club’s first baseman, with Mitch Moreland sitting. Or, as was the case last night with Rougned Odor, it could be somewhere else on the field so that an everyday player can get a half-day off by DH’ing himself. That could pay dividends later in the season, as veterans aren’t pushed as hard in the second half (at least defensively) as they were in the first.

One way or another, Profar is going to play just about every day for the foreseeable future — he’d even gotten some pregame outfield work in with Jayce Tingler earlier in the week, for the first time since 2014 — and as long as Moreland is here and healthy, having Gallo around would only serve to fortify the bench. Gallo’s recent AAA struggles (.182/.386/.333 over his last 44 plate appearances, covering nearly two weeks) notwithstanding, it wouldn’t have made sense to bring him up without a clear role, and surely everyone would agree that, of the two, Profar is the player more deserving at the moment of the everyday at-bats.

Nobody loves what Profar brings this team any more than I do. But I don’t reject the idea that trading him might be the best course of action, when considering all options. And that’s what this report was supposed to explore: Some other team taking advantage of the rare opportunity to add a young player of Profar’s stature, possible only because the makeup of his current team’s roster means that, foreseeably, he’s something less than indispensable. Some other team getting aggressive and making Texas an offer to pry Profar loose that the Rangers ultimately couldn’t turn down.

But that’s not happening.

(Probably.)

(Anything’s still possible.)

Here’s the thing: Beat reporters are suggesting that the Rangers’ current mound woes have put Daniels in a negotiating corner, as counterpart GM’s know Texas is desperate for rotation help and could try and leverage trade talks accordingly. And it’s a fair assumption: The club’s starting pitchers have given up 79 runs (70 earned: 8.25 ERA) in 76.1 July innings (with a brutal 45 walks, all of which came around to score, it seems like) over 17 games, which is an astoundingly ugly 4.49 frames per game. Asking the bullpen to pitch more than half the game, even once through the rotation, is asking for extended trouble. For more than half a month? Scary.

But the Fielder injury in particular could have the odd consequence of giving Daniels a little leverage back, at least as far as Profar is concerned. He’s an everyday player now (even if not at shortstop, which he predicted publicly this week that he will be in 2017, somewhere), and if a team out there is serious about involving him in trade discussions, Rich Hill’s GM and Andrew Cashner’s GM and Nate Eovaldi’s GM need not waste their time.

It would have been wasted effort for those teams to ask about Profar anyway, for those players, but now there’s not even room for the misperception.

If Tampa Bay wants to talk about Chris Archer rather than Matt Moore or Jake Odorizzi?

If Chicago is willing to discuss Chris Sale instead of Jose Quintana?

Then Profar, of course, is on the table.

At this point, given his new role as an everyday player on a team that now finds itself in a dogfight, Profar’s not going anywhere for anything less than a sure thing that pitches.

One club executive tells Jon Heyman (FanRag Sports) that trades over the next two weeks will “go through the Rangers and Red Sox,” given the trade ammunition they (and the Cubs) have stocked. Keith Law (ESPN), even after last July’s trade with Philadelphia that cost Texas as much legitimate prospect depth as any trade in recent memory, called the Rangers’ farm system this week the fourth best in baseball.

That’s without Profar, who is no longer a prospect. He’s past that.

Any team with something meaningful to trade these next two weeks will call Texas.

And Texas will check in on everyone who is possibly available, and probably some who aren’t.

I don’t know if something big will get done by August 1, but if not it won’t be for lack of effort.

It’s been a season in which Texas has missed massive amounts of time from Yu Darvish and Colby Lewis and Derek Holland and A.J. Griffin, and from Shin-Soo Choo and Keone Kela and Robinson Chirinos, and from Drew Stubbs and Tanner Scheppers and Josh Hamilton. It hasn’t gotten what it expected from Mitch Moreland or Delino DeShields or Tom Wilhelmsen or Andrew Faulkner or, for a fair stretch of time, Shawn Tolleson.

And now it’s going to be without Prince Fielder for what seems bound to be half a season, not that it derived nearly enough benefit when he was in the lineup.

All that, and the Rangers, the coldest team in baseball, are just one win short of having the most in the American League, and two short of the top big league mark.

I know, and I’m right there with you: It’s been demoralizing this month to watch this team’s starting pitchers (who have one July win) consistently get behind in the count and regularly take the team out of games early. Several hitters have cooled off considerably together, to the point at which there haven’t been many innings of sustained offense. There’s been a rash of really bad baseball lately, lots of losses to inferior teams, often convincingly, and thank goodness for that historically great run the team went on in the first half, because it feels like the club may need every bit of it.

But things will turn around soon, and whatever the bundle of reasons for the bounceback will be, chances are good that Jurickson Profar will be part of that.

I had one thing in mind when, a few days ago, I came up with the title to today’s report.

Now I think its meaning is different, but no less apt.