Baseball player fakes his age

I hate to keep posting baseball/sports stories because that is not what the site is about only but, I found this story very interesting.
According to news reports, the Washington Nationals baseball team are upset because a few years ago they gave a Dominican baseball prospect a $1.4 million signing bonus contract. Esmailyn “Smiley” Gonzalez, the player, was 16 years old, or so the team thought. Gonzalez, was sent to the Nationals' minor league team in Florida, where he was the league MVP.
Fast forward 3 years, while the team thinks the player is 19, in actuality he is 23. Also, his name, Esmailyn “Smiley” Gonzalez? Nope, he falsified that too.
Needless to say the team is upset. If I'm the player, do you blame him for falsifying his age? A foreign baseball player has a very small shelf life, when they are young. The age, where most American baseball players are just getting out of college to go and play baseball in the minor leagues, this Dominican has already played 3 years of professional ball and was the MVP of the league.
Is the criticism on the player fair then?