OAKLAND, Calif. -- Jurickson Profar started at second base for the first time since Sept. 18, 2013 on Tuesday as the Rangers began planning for being without Rougned Odor.

Major League Baseball suspended Odor for eight games because of his role in a brawl with Toronto on Sunday. Odor will appeal and remain active until that process is completed.

Profar, returning from two injury-marred seasons, had played only shortstop with Triple-A Round Rock this season. He handled four chances without an error at second.

"We think it's necessary that Profar have some reps at second," manager Jeff Banister said. "It could possibly be a move, if we need to.''

If Odor misses games because of the suspension, the Rangers cannot replace him on the active roster. They prefer having an extra infielder on the bench.

Major League Baseball gave Odor an eight-game suspension on Tuesday for his role in Sunday's brawl with the Blue Jays, the league announced.

Rangers GM joined the Ben and Skin Show on KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan recently to talk about Odor and the aftermath of Sunday's events. Daniels had this to say about the possibility of Profar joining the club in place of Odor:

Daniels: "Two things. One, if a player is suspended you can't directly replace that player on your roster. So if you have one guy suspended, you'd have to play at 24 [players] for whatever number of days or whatever number of games that he's out. You can make other roster moves and we may very well need to do that. If that is the way it goes where we have to bring another infielder up, then yeah Jurickson is somebody we would talk about."