Baseball in the Dominican Republic

At the same time the Astros opened their new academy facilities in the Dominican Republic yesterday, I read rumors that they had signed a 16-year old shortstop named Jean Carlos Batista from that country. I have seen no confirmation of his signing. However, I was tweeted a link to an interesting article about baseball in the Dominican. The article, written by Sarah Braunstein for Sports Illustrated Teen chronciles a crew that is filming a documentary about Dominican baseball entitled PELOTERO. By coincidence, there is a picture of Batista in the article.