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Six Ways Baseball Players Suffered Financial Loss

Shohei Ohtani Ohtani is most certainly a future Hall-Of-Fame player. But let’s focus on something different. He suffered a financial loss of $16 million.

Loss: $16 Million, Misplaced Trust. Ohtani is an example of misplaced trust, one of the ways that baseball players have suffered financial loss. Recently, his friend was employed by the Dodgers to translate. More significantly, for many years, Ohtani employed his friend as his manager and assistant. Sadly, that position of trust was used to financially harm Ohtani.

“In addition, Victim A [Ohtani] separately employed MIZUHARA to act as a de facto manager and assistant for Victim A.