Kyle Lohse, who signed with the Milwaukee Brewers on March 25, was never close to joining the Texas Rangers.

A number of teams were weary of losing a first-round draft pick that would come with signing the right-hander.

The Rangers were often linked to Lohse, but they never engaged in serious talks with Lohse.

"Not close," general manager Jon Daniels said. "We maintained a dialogue. There were two things: One, that we wanted to see if there was a possibility if MLB would consider a sign-and-trade type deal to protect our draft pick, but he had a market where he didn't need to do that. And then, he had offers above what we would have considered, so we never made a proposal."