Chicago Cubs finalizing deal for infielder Justin Turner

Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The Chicago Cubs are finalizing a contract with free agent infielder Justin Turner, who spent last season with the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners.

Sources told The Athletic, MLB Network and MLB.com about the agreement Tuesday. The one-year pact is worth $6 million, with an additional $2.5 million available through incentives.

Turner, 40, hit .259 with 11 home runs and 55 RBIs over 139 games last season. He hit .256 with six homers and 31 RBIs through the first 91 games of last season while with the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays traded Turner to the Mariners in July. He hit .264 with five homers and 24 RBIs over his final 48 appearances of 2024.

The two-time All-Star has a career .285 batting average with 198 homers over 16 seasons. He hit a career-high .340 in 2014 for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Turner won a World Series with the Dodgers in 2020.

Turner is expected to be a backup first and third baseman for the Cubs, who held their first spring training workouts last week. The Cubs will play the Dodgers in a spring training game Thursday in Phoenix. They will face the Dodgers again in the first game of MLB's regular-season March 18 in Tokyo.