Reported by Christian Arnold

The story involving Shohei Ohtani, his now-former interpreter and an alleged “massive theft” of the baseball superstar took another bizarre turn on Thursday as the sport continues to try and unravel what happened. 

New details emerged of how Ohtani discovered that Ippei Mizuhara allegedly stole millions of dollars from him to cover gambling debt. 

ESPN’s Tisha Thompson said during an appearance on “First Take” that a Dodgers official told the outlet that Ohtani only seemed to become aware of the alleged theft during a meeting in the locker room after the team’s season-opening win on Wednesday in Seoul, South Korea.

Mizuhara gets up and, based on what I’ve been told, says something to the effect of, ‘I’m sorry, I apologize, I have a gambling problem,’” Thompson explained. 

“Another player says, ‘So what?’ That is when the president of the Dodgers says, ‘Well, Ohtani paid off the debts’ — again I’m paraphrasing here cause I was not in the meeting. 

That’s when it apparently clicked for Ohtani that something was not right.

“Ohtani is not fluent in english. Everyone says that, but he has enough understanding of English according to the sources we talked to yesterday to start to say, ‘What?’” Thompson continued.

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