This has already been a topic of discussion around baseball for a few days, but I wanted to wait a bit and digest all the information out there regarding the betting situation involving Dodgers star Shohel Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, or at least as much as I could, before writing about it.
What we know is this: Mizuhara apparently had a gambling addiction which put him somewhere around $4.5 million in debt. This debt somehow got covered by funds in an account controlled by Ohtani. Mizuhara gave an interview about this to ESPN:
Initially, a spokesman for Ohtani told ESPN the slugger had transferred the funds to cover Mizuhara’s gambling debt.