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Hall of ShameA catalog of baseball's lasting mistakes

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Ippei Mizuhara

1 entry · 2024

Ippei Mizuhara (with Shohei Ohtani) at Angel Stadium, June 8, 2019. Taken years before the scandal, not the moment.
Personalities & Off-field2024

Mizuhara's Debts

During the Seoul Series, the Dodgers fired Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani's interpreter. Mizuhara had stolen about $17 million from Ohtani's account to pay illegal gambling debts. He pleaded guilty. Prosecutors cleared Ohtani.

Los Angeles Dodgers