Shohei Ohtani's Failed Cover Up 💰

The Shohei Ohtani Cover Up

The Shohei Ohtani gambling story Could get VERY UGLY…very quickly.

Ohtani will be suspended immediately if the MLB upholds their CBA.

Ahhhh…there’s nothing like a scandal to open up a $700 million contract.

Ohtani’s longtime friend and interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, admitted to wiring at least $4.5 million to a Californian Bookie.

Sidenote: I lived in LA for 4 years, sports betting of any kind is still illegal there and bookies are very common. They’re everywhere.

It’s a tough sell, but Mizuhara claimed he thought it was legal…as long as he didn’t bet on baseball.

Of course he couldn’t pay a $4.5 million debt, so he told Ohtani - who wins the friend of the year award here, by sending millions of dollars in wire transfers from his own account to the bookie.

Unfortunately the friendship award doesn’t mean much to the MLB.

Ohtani’s team figured that one out the hard way.

Just as the story was about to break, Ohtani and Mizuhara got their story straight.

It was a helpful act and Shohei never bet on games. Great.

Fast forward just hours later and they did a complete 180.

Now they’re refusing to say Ohtani was being helpful and calling it a “massive theft”.

Somebody inside the Dodgers or Ohtani’s camp realized that money being wired to a bookie warrants an “immediate suspension”.

By MLB standards, this is worst case scenario for Mizuhara.

He’s done with the Dodgers, who were paying him $500k a year, and he’s likely to face criminal charges for wire fraud and embezzlement.

It’s also the perfect example of star treatment. The MLB is heavily invested on Ohtani

If it were any other player. they’d immediately open an investigation, but even with the ridiculous story change…that’s not happening here.

Of course, if the MLB decides to uphold their CBA, this could get extremely sticky for Shohei…but many fans aren’t buying the obvious cover up.

It’s extremely odd for a bookie to offer millions of dollars in credit to a man who makes at most $500k per year.

It’s led many to believe it was either Shohei’s account (with Mizuhara as the fall guy) or it was combo account.

Regardless of who placed the bets, there is no evidence available that any were made on baseball…but the story were being fed is clearly not the full truth.

On the other hand, the MLB choosing not to investigate a violation that they’ve taken VERY SERIOUSLY in the past (Pete Rose) is shocking.

- FMS

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