The biggest story entering the 2024 Major League Baseball season involves Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, and more information continues to come to light amid a gambling scandal involving the two.
According to The Athletic's Sam Blum, there are several inaccuracies in Mizuhara's publicly available biography.
During Ohtani's tenure with the Los Angeles Angels, Mizuhara was listed in the team's media guide as having graduated from the University of California, Riverside, in 2007. However the university denied that Mizuhara ever attended the school.
"Our university records do not show a student by the name of Ippei Mizuhara having attended UC Riverside," a school spokesman told The Athletic.