Shohei Ohtani told reporters that the $4.5 million in wire transfers from his account had been sent without his knowledge by his friend and interpreter, and that he had “never bet on baseball or any other sports.” But this week, Major League Baseball can’t be happy about this cloud over its biggest star. But with gambling so deeply embedded in mainstream sports culture, these kinds of scandals have become far more common. The last thing baseball wants or needs is for its most marketable star to be embroiled in a