The Boston Pink Sox are setting the file straight relating to Ippei Mizuhara.
The Pink Sox got here out with a press release on Friday denying any previous hyperlinks to Mizuhara, the previous interpreter for Shohei Ohtani who was just lately fired amid allegations of theft and unlawful betting. Varied media stories overlaying the story said that Mizuhara had additionally labored because the interpreter for ex-Pink Sox pitcher Hideki Okajima, a declare that was apparently false.
“[Various reports state] Ippei Mizuhara labored for the Pink Sox as an interpreter, which is inaccurate,” a Pink Sox spokesperson stated, per Chris Cotillo of MassLive. “Mizuhara was by no means employed by the Boston Pink Sox in any capability and was not an interpreter for Hideki Okajima in the course of the pitcher’s time with the crew.”
Mizuhara’s Wikipedia web page had lengthy said (and nonetheless does) that he was employed by the Pink Sox after graduating from school to interpret for Okajima. The supply cited was a 2021 article by Japanese outlet Nippon.com, which said that Mizuhara interpreted for Okajima in 2010 (Okajima pitched for the Pink Sox from 2007-11.) A number of outstanding retailers then re-posted the declare that Mizuhara interpreted for Okajima, together with the Los Angeles Occasions, the Related Press and The Japan Occasions.
However the Pink Sox are actually denying any such affiliation with Mizuhara. It is smart that they’d need to distance themselves from Mizuhara, who has been accused of a massive theft of Ohtani’s money with Ohtani’s representatives now reportedly enlisting regulation enforcement to research.
