Kiley McDaniel of Baseball Prospectus clears up some misconceptions surrounding the Texas Rangers' putative pursuit of Dominican bonus baby Guillermo Pimentel (subscription-only content, so only a small portion has been clipped):

This seemed to be an open-and-shut case from the start, the one sure thing in Latin America this year. Now it's become the complicated soap opera that no one seems to understand. To recap, it was alleged that Pimentel had struck a verbal deal with the Texas Rangers sometime late in January, for either $1.8 million or $2 million. Soon after his January workouts for Texas, other clubs began complaining that they weren't being allowed to see him, which is as effective as his agent setting up a 40-foot-tall neon sign outside his house saying "a deal is done with Texas, leave us alone." Literally every single Latin source I spoke with for months would respond to the topic of Pimentel with a sigh and a roll of the eyes so obvious that I could hear it through the phone.

Teams were miffed enough that Pimentel was being "hidden" that I was told by multiple sources that formal complaints were lodged with MLB, and there was speculation that Texas would be barred from signing the player if any evidence of wrongdoing was found. Throughout the process, Texas denied doing anything inappropriate, insisting that Pimentel wasn't on "lockdown" at their academy, and that a deal hadn't been done by any stretch of the imagination. This issue became big enough that it inserted itself into any writing about Pimentel's talent—no one had seen him play for months, so scouting reports were outdated and there was no bidding war to speculate about.

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After some digging, an alternate narrative for the story emerged. The Reds, Yankees, Mariners, and Rangers were all interested in Pimentel at the beginning of the year, and were working him out individually. Midway through these workouts, he suffered an injury (rumored to be a fractured hamate), and after a few more workouts, he realized that it was a problem. He then opted to rehab the injury, sitting out for what amounted to a couple of months. Since he was last seen belting three home runs in a game at the Rangers' complex, the club seemed very interested, and when Pimentel stopped working out, rumors spread of a deal being done.

An extensive pre-July 2nd BBTiA report on the Rangers' efforts in procuring amateur Latin American talent is still forthcoming. While the circumstances surrounding the Pimentel situation have been clarified to some extent, the Mariners reportedly remain the front-runner for Pimentel, with a rumored $1.8 million deal in place, although he's apparently still on the market. There don't appear to be any indications that the Mariners' emergence as the front-runner is at all reflective of the Rangers being outbid; quite the contrary, in fact. This isn't about money.