At a minimum, per this LA Times piece, Shohei Ohtani looks like a naive sucker for his blind trust in body man/Man Friday/interpreter Ippei Mizuhara.
At a maximum, per this story linked within that first one, especially its second half, detailing how much Ohtani both 'lawyered up" AND "PR agencied up" after the news first broke, after he and Mizuhara both started to change their stories, but well before his no questions asked presser, it seems he is still hiding things.
Yes, Ohtani has a large penchant for privacy in the US. And, his bombshell wedding announcement seems to indicate that is true of him in general. Such penchant could either easily leave him a mark for suckers, or else be a good tool for nefariousness.
Next question is how much, or how little, cooperation will "hunk of metal" Rob Manfred get out of Ohtani? Question after that is, if the answer there is "little to none," what does Manfred do next?
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