Ippei Mizuhara served as Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, which meant he helped shape the way American baseball fans understood the MLB star.
SEOUL — Every Major League Baseball team has an interpreter to help Spanish-speaking players interact with the media. Teams with Japanese players have interpreters for them, too. Until about 24 hours ago, the Los Angeles Dodgers had multiple Japanese interpreters, one for each of their two new Japanese stars. Most of these interpreters live in relative anonymity, known only to the fans who watch every interview, cult heroes to those who know 40-man rosters like they know the alphabet.
But Ippei Mizuhara, by virtue of serving as Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter for every moment of his major league career, has always had an outsize profile. The affable guy with the floppy hair who translated every Ohtani answer, and therefore shaped the way American fans understood him, became a household name to baseball fans from Southern California to Tokyo.
He and Ohtani’s friendship became an endearing part of the Japanese superstar’s story, cemented into the hearts of fans when Mizuhara, prohibited from speaking to Ohtani during as a team employee, quit his job as Los Angeles Angels interpreter so he could maintain their friendship instead.alleging that Mizuhara had accumulated millions in gambling debt that Ohtani helped him pay as Ohtani’s representatives, the West Hollywood law firm Berk Brettler, claimed “massive theft” against their client.
Berk Brettler did not name Mizuhara specifically in that allegation, but the line between the reports and the firm’s assertions was not hard to draw:that Mizuhara sat for an interview in which he admitted accumulating massive gambling debts and claimed Ohtani paid the debt for him to ensure he would not repeat his mistakes. Later, he gave a second interview in which he claimed Ohtani had no knowledge of the situation.
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