The Rangers won the bidding rights for Japanese right-hander Yu Darvish with a $51.7 wager this month. The Blue Jays were believed to be the main competition for Texas, but the amount separating the two teams may not have been as close as initially thought. Early reports suggested that Toronto's bid was within $2 million of the winning bid, but Jon Heyman of CBS Sports writes differently. He writes that reports of the Blue Jays bidding $50 million for the right to negotiate with Darvish are "absolutely false and inaccurate."