Be prepared for the dodgers to rule the next ten years. They will be all over everything and sign all the top Japanese players.
Fed Fixes are dirt cheap to the most corrupt. To them, the only real crime is opposition. This outcome was no surprise from the initial announcement. The last chapter was written before the first.
"In negotiations" meaning they are still trying to decide on an amount that Otani is going to pay him under the table to take the fall.
Ohtani’s team is really bad at PR. Like terribly bad, if it happened as he says his whole financial team would be fired. They are not.
16 million? He really didn’t notice that just because “the alert settings were changed on the account?”
So you're telling me Mizuhara stole 16 million dollars from Ohtani, and then decided to give a public interview about it, all while Ohtani was oblivious to what was happening in front of him...the excuse that is trying to be portrayed is that Ohtani is horrible with money, yet this fool in free agency came up with a revolutionary contract in order to maximize his income and avoid some California tax penalties...so which one is it, is he smart or is he stupid...or is it option number 3, did somebody get caught up in lie...I wonder...
And then throw in the language and customs barrier and I can see it is feasible.........................I would LOVE for this to be a scandal but IMO it's a young kid trusting a child hood friend who had an issue betting. She Won Athletes' Hearts. And Robbed Them Blind The same people who years ago entrusted her with millions—from Ricky Williams to Dennis Rodman to Travis Best—wince today at the mention of her name. They'll tell you how she left them broke. How she's a "chameleon ghost witch." How she's a forgery of the American Dream. And every athlete's worst nightmare. https://www.si.com/nba/2019/09/19/a...-embezzlement-fraud-scandal-peggy-ann-fulford
This detail is mind boggling - "As relayed by Jayson Stark of The Athletic, Mizuhara is alleged to have made about 19,000 wagers from December of 2021 to January of 2024, winning $142.27MM but losing $182.94MM for a net loss of $40.7MM."
My understanding is that he had a buzzer inside his shirt that went off every time he lost a bet. But Mizuhara disabled it.
I'm not sure why this is all so hard to believe. A ton of elite athletes go broke due to their own financial mismanagement or being scammed. Or you can look at the Manti Teo catfishing scandal. Baseball players are just like everyone else and make the same mistakes as everyone else. $16MM is a lot but probably not a ton for him and if he assumes his financial advisors handle everything, he may never even look at his bank accounts. The Dodgers contract was designed to benefit the Dodgers rather than him. Like a lottery winner deciding between the annuity or the all-cash options, he'd be way better off having taken the smaller amount of cash and investing it himself. The only way the contract works for him is if he has zero interest in either spending or investing the money, which fits with him not worrying about his bank account or noticing money missing. To add to it all, while it's easy to argue MLB wants to cover things up, the federal government has no real reason to do so and everything they have found points to the interpreter and matches up with what we heard previously.
