MLB’s brightest supernova, a two-way dynamo with two MVP awards and a hot-off-the-presses $700 million contract from the Los Angeles Dodgers, has found himself linked to a federal gambling scandal involving his longtime interpreter and friend, Ippei Mizuhara. In all of this, the most popular conspiracy theory among baseball people, though entirely unsubstantiated and vehemently denied by Ohtani on Monday.