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 . Continue reading...