The Los Angeles Dodgers fired Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, after he was stunning accused of stealing thousands and thousands of {dollars} of Ohtani’s cash for what’s an allegedly unlawful sports activities playing operation.
Ohtani will not be at the moment going through any self-discipline from the Mizuhara state of affairs. Nonetheless, the state of affairs has left MLB in shock, particularly after Ohtani and Mizuhara had been associates for years.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan went on the Pat McAfee Present and revealed extra particulars about Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, who was fired after reportedly utilizing Ohtani’s cash to put bets with an alleged unlawful bookmaker who’s underneath federal investigation.
After the Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres on Wednesday evening in Seoul, Passan stated:
“Dodgers gamers had been sitting down. Entrance workplace individuals for the group obtained up and stated, ‘Hey, there’s going to be a narrative popping out about playing. Ippei, would you wish to say one thing?’ And he was simply extraordinarily apologetic. Then they left and went again to the lodge, and in some unspecified time in the future there, plainly is when the story modified.”
— Jeff Passan, by way of the Pat McAfee Present.
Passan additionally outlined the potential subsequent steps within the saga.
“If expenses are pressed on this state of affairs, we’re going to get a full public accounting of what really occurred. We’re going to know the extent of the cash. We discovered $4.5 million in wire transfers. There could possibly be extra doubtlessly. We don’t know. There are such a lot of components on this state of affairs that we don’t know proper now, that leaping to any conclusions I believe is irresponsible, however that’s what the web is for.”
— Jeff Passan, by way of the Pat McAfee Present.
For now, the Dodgers have launched an announcement solely confirming that Mizuhara was fired. They’re additionally sustaining that they won’t let the state of affairs distract from their efficiency on the sector, even after dropping 15-11 to the San Diego Padres on Thursday.
Subsequent, the Dodgers return residence and play of their freeway sequence of exhibition video games towards the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday-Monday. Then, the remainder of the common season begins, beginning with their home residence opener in a single week towards the St. Louis Cardinals.
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