After tearing up the Dominican Summer League, outfielder Julio Pablo Martinez, the Rangers' "consolation prize" in the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes, is on the move to short-season Class A Spokane.

Martinez, 22, hit .409 with a 1.288 OPS in seven games in the Dominican Republic. He had seven hits in his final 15 at-bats there. Spokane opens play in the Northwest League on Friday against Boise of the Colorado organization.

The Rangers signed Martinez this spring for a $2.8 million signing bonus with surplus funds left over after they were unable to win the bidding for Ohtani, the two-way Japanese star.

Ohtani made a big impact with the Los Angeles Angels for the first two months of the season but is now on the DL with a strained ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow.