The Cubs made a move Thursday, signing former Cardinals and Angels outfielder Peter Bourjos to a minor-league deal with a spring training invite. If the outfielder makes the big-league squad, he’ll earn a base salary of $1.45 million.
Bourjos earns $1.45MM base salary in the Majors upon making the #Cubs' roster, I'm told. https://t.co/Yb1LAicjCC
— Steve Adams (@Adams_Steve) February 1, 2018
I typed “Peter Bourjos” into Google and just below the new Cubs signee’s FanGraphs page was Jon Jay’s. What an omen.
The 30-year-old Bourjos was a former 4.