MLB embraced betting. Now it’s smeared with gambling’s grubby underbelly
by Oliver Connolly from US news | The Guardian on (#6KHNV)
Like every other US sports league, baseball pushes betting on its fans at every turn. Now its biggest star is associated with a gambling fiasco
This is Major League Baseball's worst nightmare. The face of the league, its one, true international star, who this past offseason joined one of its biggest teams on a $700m contract, is associated with allegations around an illegal sports betting operation.
The story so far: the Los Angeles Dodgers fired Ippei Mizuhara, the interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, the team's two-way phenom, on Wednesday after an investigation revealed $4.5m in wire transfers sent from Ohtani's bank account to a California betting organization that is now under federal investigation.
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