Major dereliction of duty on my part here, I've had FM17 for a month but totally didn't think to look up Ortiz when the rumor post first went up. But then, given what the FM scouting network thinks of Ortiz, maybe it was for the best:

For those unfamiliar, all ratings are on a 20 point scale, larger numbers are better. Players at professional clubs in major leagues are really starting from a base somewhere in the 5-7 range for most of their attributes, because the game models all the way down into the semipro ranks in some countries and also models teenagers in youth academies, and those are the people for whom ratings in the bottom quartile make more sense.

I'm about to go into a really long discussion of FM scouting tendencies, so here's your TL;DR in advance... it's not as bad as it looks, but this is decidedly not good enough for DCU (in their humble opinion).

First, the standard disclaimer: FM's volunteer scouting network is historically much better at identifying the relative strengths and weaknesses of a player than his overall "class". If they say a guy is really fast, or completely unable to read the game, etc., then you can feel pretty confident about that characterization... but you generally can't compare a player's ratings to those of another player from a different league and feel confident that A is better overall than B or vice versa, because it's not like their volunteer raters in Norway are doing scientific cross-referencing of inter-coder reliability with their raters in Mexico.

Now, it used to be the case that the raters tended to bias their description of players toward certain archetypes, which led to (e.g.) lower division wingers or center backs looking very similar to one another, because the raters were consciously or subconsciously viewing players through the lens of what is generally considered typical for their role. There also used to be a significant problem with cultural biases and regional variations. For example, back when the game was still called Championship Manager (before 2004), it was very difficult to find useful players in the Dutch leagues, because for whatever reason the Dutch raters were very harsh judges of stamina, and so those players couldn't be used in higher tiers except as late-game substitutes. The game developer, Sports Interactive, has gotten a lot better since then about educating their raters and getting them to treat each player as an individual, not a template, and this is one of the reasons that you now hear stories about real teams, even prominent and wealthy teams, using the FM database as a scouting tool.

With this in mind, the above profile of Ortiz is more informative than it looks at first glance. 15 years ago, I would have concluded that he was one of the many, many lower tier wingers that were simply being lumped into the "generic fast winger" template: good speed, moderate stamina, no other identifying characteristics. Nowadays, that's pretty rare for players at most of the professional clubs you might have ever heard of. Contrast with two of his former Alajuelense teammates, Jonathan McDonald and Diego Madrigal:

Not exactly generic, those. McDonald is seen to be a hard worker with a good first touch, while Madrigal has even better technique but is easily discouraged.

So, when we look at Ortiz's ratings, it is unlikely that we are seeing a case of underinformed or lazy raters throwing him in a catch-all "fast winger" basket, especially since we are talking about a player who had 48 appearances and 17 goals for Alajuelense in the 15/16 season. Thus, we must conclude that they really do think he is just kind of this guy, you know? Fast, but otherwise bland.

To be clear, there are worse fates. Here is Miguel Aguilar, until very very recently a member of our glorious club:

As an experienced FM player, all other things being equal, I'd rather have Ortiz than Aguilar, because those two points of difference in Pace and four in Acceleration are a big deal for wide attackers. In game, the space Ortiz can make for himself will more than make up for his mediocre technical skills, and his superior Decisions and Determination ratings will also loom large when he goes to use that space.

BUT... when we try to use this to inform our real-world evaluations, we must recall the point I made earlier, that inter-league comparisons remain very dicey in the FM database. We can feel somewhat confident that we know what kind of player Ortiz is, but we cannot feel confident that his overall quality is showing through properly here, for good or ill, because the people watching Alajuelense and rating their players are not the same people watching DCU. Imagine, perhaps, that if Ortiz were playing in MLS and rated by the same people who watch the rest of the league, we might see him look like this:

That's a simple change of two points added to most of his Technical and Mental skills. Compare to Nicky D:

The modified Ortiz looks a lot more like a real MLS player. And it is completely believable that the game database would mislead for this kind of distinction in class.

Consequently, if Ortiz's overall quality is somewhat better than FM is giving him credit for, and if the raters are correct in saying that he doesn't have any glaring weaknesses, then he could be a useful target. However, the basic conclusion from this one scouting source remains: he's just this guy, you know?