https://dev.ballertube.com/athletes/hideki-okajima/ Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:08:58 EDT https://dev.ballertube.com/video/4232/the-ohtani-scandal-just-got-worse-orioles-refuse-to-promote-jackson-holliday-mlb-recap/
As a brewing gambling scandal has ensnared Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, questions have arisen about the reliability of the tale’s primary narrator thus far: Ohtani’s now former interpreter and best friend, Ippei Mizuhara. Those questions have only grown, with increased scrutiny on Mizuhara revealing that key points of his publicly available biography appear to be either exaggerated or inaccurate. For years, the Los Angeles Angels media guide lists Mizuhara as having graduated from the University of California, Riverside in 2007, and that he spent spring training in 2012 working for the New York Yankees as an interpreter for Japanese pitcher Hideki Okajima. Also, multiple news reports noted that Mizuhara served as Okajima’s interpreter in 2010 with the Boston Red Sox — where he reportedly got his first major-league opportunity - ]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2024 21:28:04 EDT https://dev.ballertube.com/video/4232/the-ohtani-scandal-just-got-worse-orioles-refuse-to-promote-jackson-holliday-mlb-recap/