The news surrounding Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter was bizarre enough until more details emerged about how some of the particulars had changed over the past 24 hours.
News broke Wednesday afternoon when the Los Angeles Times published a shocking report that Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, had perpetrated a “massive theft” of millions of dollars of the baseball superstar’s money to place bets with an illegal bookmaker.
But things took an even stranger turn when a spokesman for Ohtani originally told ESPN that the Dodgers player had transferred funds to help cover Mizuhara’s gambling debt and made the interpreter available to the outlet to explain the situation.
