Jorge Cantu, who played eight seasons in the majors, has signed a one-year deal with the Doosan Bears of the Korea Baseball Organization.
According to the Yonhap News Agency he’ll earn $250,000 up front, plus another $50,000 in potential incentives, which is about the middle ground between what he’d earn at Triple-A in America and what he could have earned as a minimum-salaried big leaguer.
Cantu last played in the majors in 2011, but he’s still just 31 years old and put up huge numbers in the Mexican League this year. He showed a ton of promise as a 23-year-old for the Rays in 2005, hitting .286 with 28 homers and an .808 OPS, but poor defense and bad plate discipline eventually did in Cantu.