According to Jerry Crasnick of ESPN.com, the Minnesota Twins have signed outfielder Drew Stubbs to a minor-league deal with an invitation to spring training. The team has not yet confirmed the signing.

The #Twins have signed outfielder Drew Stubbs. Minor league deal with an invite to big-league camp. — Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) February 8, 2017

Stubbs has played parts of eight seasons in the major leagues with six teams — Cincinnati, Texas, Colorado, Atlanta and Baltimore — with his primary exposure to fans in this market coming when he played with Cleveland during the 2013 season. Stubbs has hit .244/.314/.394 in 3,143 career MLB plate appearances while playing all across the outfield.

Stubbs came up as a highly-regarded prospect in the Reds system — peaking at No. 88 on Baseball America’s top-100 list — after they selected him with their first-round pick (eighth overall) in the 2006 draft. Stubbs was part of the trade which sent, among others, Trevor Bauer to the Indians, Didi Gregorius to the Diamondbacks and Shin-Soo Choo to the Reds back on Dec. 11, 2012 and one year later Stubbs was traded straight up for pitcher Josh Outman.

#Twins have Buxton, Kepler, Grossman, Santana and Rosario on their OF depth chart. Stubbs will try to win a bench job in spring training. — Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) February 8, 2017

Stubbs has been no stranger to ups and downs over his career. After peaking as a 3.4-win player (via Fangraphs WAR) in 2010, the 32-year-old Stubbs has put together just a pair of 2.0-win seasons in the interim. At Stubbs’ peak, he struck out a lot but had good power and great speed, with peaks in home runs of 22 in 2010 and in steals with 40 the next season. Stubbs was exclusively a center fielder early in his career — and a very good one — but has transitioned into a fourth outfielder-type role as he’s struggled in recent seasons.

In addition to good defense, Stubbs’ calling card over his career has been hitting left-handed pitching. In 952 career plate appearances against lefties, Stubbs has hit .272/.348/.444. Contrarily, he’s hit just .231/.299/.372 against righties. His last good offensive season came in 2014 with the Rockies, when he hit .289/.339/.482 (114 OPS+) over 132 games (424 PA). Since then, Stubbs has hit just .207/.302/.365 in 112 games while shuttling between five teams.

Stubbs’ best bet would be to make the team as a fourth outfielder, with Robbie Grossman spending more time as a DH — especially against lefties.