According to reports from several different media outlets on Sunday afternoon, the Dodgers are very close to signing Cuban second baseman Jose Miguel Fernandez to a minor league deal.
The left-handed hitting infielder will turn 29 in April, and has spent his entire eight-year professional career playing for the Cocodrilos de Matanzas in the Cuban National Series, where he hit a combined .319/.403/.423 in 608 games played. One of his benchmark seasons came in 2012, when he slashed a stellar .355/.456/.492 with eight home runs and 17 doubles in 87 games played, but more impressively struck out a meager 17 times over 364 plate appearances.