Okay, it’s totally bad form to add more Big Board-esque questions when I’ve done eff-all to score any of the existing ones, but here we go. When I first thought about the Big Board, this was the sort of one-off debate I thought it would be useful for, and while I’m not sure why this of all things is one of the more-organic opportunities for weighing in that we’ve had over the last season or two, it is, and here we are.
We’ve even got dueling reporter narratives: one reporter says the clubhouse would
be happy to welcome him back, another says he’s basically persona non grata. And, the Braves really do care about the clubhouse, so that presumably matters. But, the sum total of considerations could be expansive.
Yes, Profar has been gone for a full year, and it’s not like he was all that impressive in the second half of 2025 (barely above 2 fWAR/600 while massively outhitting your xwOBA is not a great way to go through life, son). But, cutting him or sending him away in a bad contract swap is also getting nothing for your money, and the Braves may be loath to do that. If there are clubhouse effects, those probably swing the decision one way or another, but hard to know which way they may go. Combine all that with the fact that Mike Yastrzemski kinda sucked in 2026, and that Ronald Acuña Jr.‘s central estimate of playing time is probably going to be somewhere in the three- or four-month range rather than a full season, and that makes removing even an unexciting bench-quality option with a low floor and a lot of skew towards that floor harder to part with. But, the Braves could also part ways with Profar and use their limited resources on whatever Profar was theoretically supposed to provide back when he was signed (an actual starter-quality guy in a corner outfield spot).
Anyway, the question is simple: will Jurickson Profar record an appearance for the Braves in 2027? Please add a confidence integer to your answer: 1 for “I have no idea and am just participating for the fun of it,” 5 for “I am dead certain this will happen,” or the other three digits on the gradient in between those two.
