Ohtani’s Dizzying 3 Weeks End in Exoneration by Authorities

In coming clean, though, Mizuhara made one last effort to protect himself from the law, according to two people familiar with the conversation, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private matter. He asked his patron to go along with the story that he had just told Ohtani’s teammates, his advisers and a reporter for ESPN who had made inquires about $4.5 million in wire transfers from Ohtani’s account to an illegal bookmaker in California. Ohtani refused and called his agent, Nez Balelo, into the conference room. Balelo then had...