I’m going to assume that you’ve already heard about the gambling scandal surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. I’m going to try to give you some links that will allow you to do some further reading and get some more insight.
Also, I can’t promise that some of the information that I’m linking to won’t be out-of-date by the time you read it.
Another thing to remember, and I’ve discovered that a lot of people don’t seem to realize this, is that sports gambling is still illegal throughout the state of California. There were two propositions on the ballot that would have legalized it back in 2022 and they both were defeated soundly.