Major League Baseball is investigating an Atlanta Braves player accused of placing bets with the same illegal sports bookie as Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, ESPN reports.
MLB opened the investigation into David Fletcher, a current Braves minor league player and Ohtani’s former Angels teammate, on Monday.
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ESPN reports that Fletcher placed bets with Mathew Bowyer, but none of his bets were on baseball games. MLB officials are also looking into Fletcher’s friend Colby Schultz for gambling on Angels games that Fletcher played in, according to ESPN.