The Texas Rangers were willing to sign David Ortiz to a two-year contract this past offseason.
Ortiz and the Boston Red Sox had mutual interest in a return all along, but other clubs entered the fray as Boston's exclusivity window closed.
"It was probably true, but you couldn't talk to anyone," Ortiz said of interest from Texas. "I didn't know what it was going to be like (if he hit free agency)."