Back in February I looked at the list of the 10 bobblehead nights the Dodgers were planning for the 2015 season, and saw a name there barely familiar to me:

Justin Turner.

And I did a post entitled The Unknown Bobblehead … referring to this Justin Turner person, who for all I knew might have played 100 years ago.

And now, six months later, I have come around on this to the point that a case can be made that Justin Turner is the third or fourth most important hitter in the Dodgers lineup.

His absence certainly is noted. He is out with a leg infection, which sounds a bit scary, actually, and the Dodgers seem to scrabble to score when he is not in there.

Turner has had a sort of strange career, failing to attain much celebrity until the past year. It took him a while to get to the bigs, not sticking till 2011, the year when he turned 26. That was the one season when he had more than 332 plate appearances in a season, getting to the dish 487 times for a bad Mets team, and then settling in as a utility guy.

He is an infielder, playing second or, now, mostly third, and not doing it with much distinction, according to advanced metrics.

But the man can hit, and this season he has added home runs to his stat package, joining his established gap power.

If we refer to the “offensive wins above replacement” statistic, Turner is No. 2 among Dodgers hitters, at 3.0 wins, a tick behind Adrian Gonzalez, at 3.1.

In only 254 at-bats, Turner has 34 extra-base hits (including 13 home runs) and has 44 RBI with an on-base percentage of .387, second among regulars only to Yasmani Grandal.

If Turner could get 500 at-bats, and he won’t because of his sporadic usage and current absence, the pace he is on now would suggest he would drive in close to 90 runs and hit 26 homers — which would get out attention, certainly.

Gonzalez is more important to the lineup, and so is Grandal and probably Joc Pedersen. But The Unknown Bobblehead is right there with Howie Kendrick for the fourth spot, clearly ahead of Yasiel Puig, to name one guy whose reputation exceeds his reliability.

The Dodgers got it right, in giving Justin Turner a bobblehead night.

Now, as to Juan Uribe …