Profar, Texas Ranger.

Man, let’s go get him.

His big question mark may at last be gone.

But it still hovers, so maybe we can buy low.

He’s raking, and if he’s right he can defend at a premium position.

He’s high-risk, high-reward, but that risk keeps diminishing.

He could still be great, like we all thought, and he’s still just 22.

The Rangers have no room for him.

Maybe we can give them something they need — something that never would have been enough to get him three years ago, and that never would be enough six months from now.

Let’s go get him.

That’s what other fan bases are probably thinking about Jurickson Profar, and reportedly other Major League teams as well.

It’s not a whole lot different from the Rangers moving in and capitalizing on Josh Hamilton when they did, eight winters ago.

One big contrast, though: Edinson Volquez and Danny Ray Herrera for Hamilton snuck up on a virtually Twitter-less baseball world in 2007, while there’s probably been more written since the Texas season ended a few weeks ago about Profar than about all other Rangers combined.

He homered and doubled in his first Arizona Fall League game, hit safely and drove in runs in each of his first five games, and has kept on producing. Has as many walks (eight) as strikeouts, and twice as many RBI (16) in just 13 games, not counting the league’s All-Star Game four days ago, when he singled twice, walked twice, and stole two bases.

According to Ken Rosenthal (Fox Sports), “other teams want him,” in spite of the fact that he hasn’t yet been cleared to put a glove on.

Rosenthal reported a year ago that when the Rangers and Nationals discussed righthander Stephen Strasburg, Washington wanted Profar as part of any deal.

Joel Sherman (New York Post) has written separate pieces in the last four days suggesting that the Mets come after Profar to play shortstop, and reporting that the Yankees are among the teams who have called Texas about the 22-year-old, in their case envisioning him at second base. Sherman also notes, as everyone does, that A.J. Preller (who oversaw the Texas effort to sign Profar out of Curacao in 2009) still doesn’t have an answer at shortstop in San Diego.

But Daniels told Sherman: “We are not looking to trade him. We held onto him this long. We are pretty optimistic his shoulder is fit. The mindset is to wait and see where he is. We believe he will get back to his value, which was one of the best young players out there.”

And if he does get back to his value, he’d fetch a whole lot more than any team would reasonably offer the Rangers right now for the fall league DH.

Or he’d give Texas itself a much more valuable, cost-effective, club-controlled weapon than anything being offered in Boca Raton.

Profar, who hit a 400-foot, opposite-field bomb from the left side yesterday, will reportedly play shortstop when he’s allowed to play defense, which will likely be in camp (though he was throwing from 105 feet as of three weeks ago). It won’t be in the fall league, and it won’t be in winter ball, which the Rangers prefer he not risk playing before returning to Surprise in February.

That led one scout to verbalize to Sherman the point being made in the war room of every one of those interested teams he and Rosenthal have alluded to, plus the one occupied by the team that signed and developed the switch-hitter: “I like Profar, but if you are Texas, you have to ask full value for him, and how could you give up full value for a player who we don’t know yet if he can throw?”

Right.

And right.

The chances of Profar being traded this winter, in spite of the present logjam in Texas at each of his primary positions, are astronomically low. There’s just no reason to think he could have nearly as much trade value — which is a concept much different from trade interest — as he has value to the Rangers as a potential weapon with years of affordable control, the versatility to make all sorts of other moves more realistic to consider, and the upside of a player who was thought of not long ago as baseball’s premier prospect.

He’s younger than Hanser Alberto. And Delino DeShields. And Andrew Faulkner and Luke Jackson and Chi Chi Gonzalez.

And everyone else on the Rangers’ 40-man roster other than Rougned Odor, Joey Gallo, and Keone Kela.

I like the idea that Profar and those three will be Rangers for a long time.

I’m as guilty as anyone as far as all the attention I’ve paid to Profar over the last month is concerned, based on a slate of what amounts to exhibition games in Arizona, games in which he’s only leaving the dugout the field four or five times, rather than three times that.

But he’s on my mind right now, and apparently on the minds of a lot of people in the game who are in charge of making their teams better, all but one of which is imagining ways to exploit what is almost certainly an unexploitable situation.

I hope I have to write about Jurickson Profar a ton more in 2016.

And for a whole lot of years after that.