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Jack Harris / Los Angeles Times:
Shohei Ohtani grateful for investigation into ex-interpreter: ‘Id like to focus on baseball’ — Just hours after Shohei Ohtanis ex-interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, surrendered to authorities Friday on charges that he stole more than $16 million from the Dodgers' two-way star …
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US Department of Justice:
Japanese-Language Translator Charged in Complaint with Illegally Transferring More Than $16 Million from Baseball Player's Account — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California — LOS ANGELES - A Japanese-language translator was charged today via …
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Feds say Shohei Ohtani's ex-interpreter Ippei Mizuhara stole $16M — The former interpreter for Shohei Ohtani stole more than $16 million over two years from the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar to pay off gambling debts to an illegal sportsbook, according to an affidavit filed by federal authorities Thursday.
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Salvador Perez homers, Bobby Witt Jr. scores 4 times as Royals beat Mets 11-7 — NEW YORK — Salvador Perez hit his milestone 250th homer and Bobby Witt Jr. scored four times to lead the Kansas City Royals to an 11-7 win over the New York Mets on Saturday.
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Mets stop Royals' 7-game winning streak with 6-1 victory behind Severino, Baty and Alonso — NEW YORK — Pete Alonso homered and Luis Severino earned his first win for the New York Mets, who snapped Kansas City's seven-game winning streak Friday night with a 6-1 victory over the Royals.
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Sources: Bad Bunny-led agency faces MLBPA sanctions — William Arroyo, the main baseball agent for the Bad Bunny-led agency Rimas Sports, had his Major League Baseball Players Association certification revoked after a union investigation into complaints from other agents about improper benefits provided …
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Michael Blinn / New York Post:
Ex-Yankee Fritz Peterson, who swapped wives with teammate Mike Kekich, dead at 82 — Ex-Yankees pitcher Fritz Peterson, a winner of 109 games for the Bronx Bombers and a 1970 All-Star, has died. — He was 82 years old. — Peterson, who overcame prostate cancer and revealed to The Post …
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Anthony Franco / MLB Trade Rumors:
Fritz Peterson Passes Away — Former All-Star pitcher Fritz Peterson has passed away at age 82. The Yankees announced the news this evening and offered their condolences to Peterson's family. … A Chicago native, Peterson attended Northern Illinois before signing with the Yankees.
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Lindsey Adler / Wall Street Journal:
How the Biggest Agency in Sports Got Blindsided by the Shohei Ohtani Scandal — The Japanese superstar entrusted almost every aspect of his life to his representatives at CAA, but according to prosecutors, the infrastructure they built around him was easily compromised by Ohtani's interpreter
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Rob Longley / Toronto Sun:
‘ANGEL ON HIS SHOULDER’: How Blue Jays' Davis Schneider got his family to smile again — It is indeed the day the Schneider family started to smile again and it was so much more than a long-shot son and a brother making a Major League Baseball debut for the ages. — STORY CONTINUES BELOW
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Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
Sources: Diamondbacks' Jordan Montgomery drops Scott Boras — Jordan Montgomery, who was signed by the Arizona Diamondbacks in late March amid a soft free agent market, has fired Scott Boras as his agent and signed with Wasserman's Joel Wolfe and Nick Chanock, sources told ESPN on Thursday.
Matt Gelb / The Athletic:
Nick Castellanos diagnoses his ‘sh-ty’ start, revealing a key struggle for Phillies hitters — ST. LOUIS — Five hours before Tuesday's game started, Nick Castellanos met Paco Figueroa on the grass at Busch Stadium. Castellanos had requested an early hitting session. He had one hit in his previous 27 at-bats.
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Maren Angus-Coombs / Sports Illustrated:
Padres Top Prospect Agrees With Team's Decision to Send Him Down to Triple-A — The first demotion of Graham Pauley's young career shouldn't be taken harshly. It's more of an affirmation that the San Diego Padres believe that with some everyday reps in Triple-A El Paso, he will be back.
Lindsey Adler / Wall Street Journal:
Baseball's Pitcher Injury Crisis Reaches Maximum Velocity — Spencer Strider and Shane Bieber are the latest aces to go down as major league pitchers keep pushing for more velocity and increasingly dramatic breaking pitches — No one knows more about the pitcher injury crisis sweeping …
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