It's been a quiet offseason. Too quiet, almost. Then again, it's about what we expected to this point.

Other than the acquisition of Ross Detwiler and Kyuji Fujikawa, there haven't been any major additions to the organization that would merit more than a passing interest from even the most die-hard observers of Texas baseball. And really, that mostly falls in line with what many have been saying all along: The Rangers are planning on getting better in 2015 simply by virtue of getting healthier. After all, surely a historic rash of injuries can't strike twice... can it?

So it's with that in mind that I've been keeping a close eye this offseason on the status of Jurickson Profar. He's the one guy returning from injury that remains an absolute unknown. He was supposed to man 2nd base last season, but never managed to get on the field.

We could probably go back and forth all day on the merits behind Profar being ready to go out of Spring Training on the Major League club, or for him starting the season at Triple-A Round Rock in order to make up for missing an entire season. Both sides have their merits, but I'm not sure either one really considers one thing: We still don't even know how Profar's arm will respond once he begins throwing.

In March, when we first learned that he would miss the first half of the 2014 season, the prevailing sentiment coming out of the front office was that rest, and nothing more, is all that would be required for Profar to be healthy. To my best recollection -- and because I'm feeling exceptionally lazy at the moment and I haven't looked -- the thought of surgery was quickly brushed off as unnecessary.

When he suffered setback after setback, that sentiment began to fade a bit. Then on December 11, Evan Grant posited that another setback would indeed, as some of us have feared for awhile, require surgical repair.

As a warning, the rest of this is going to contain a lot of spitballing on my part, as I'm still trying to really wrap my head around what to expect, health-wise, from the former top-prospect moving forward.

On Friday, Calvin Watkins had a piece up over on ESPN in which he talked about Profar's attempt to get healthy. In it, among many other thoughts regarding the middle infield in Texas moving forward, was one snippet that caught my attention more than any other regarding Profar's prognosis.