A gambling-fueled stealing scandal. An unprecedented statistical season. A long-awaited first championship. Those storylines ...

"Can't wait for the little rookie to join our family soon!" read the caption of a photo posted on Ohtani's Instagram.

Those juicy storylines would make for a compelling sports news cycle in any given year, but in 2024, they all applied to Shohei Ohtani ... he accused his interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, of stealing ...

The Dodgers star posted on Instagram that he and wife Mamiko ‘can’t wait for the little rookie’ to join their team ...

It never looked possible until Shohei Ohtani did it—ending this season with 54 homers, stealing 59 bases, and crossing the 50 ...

Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani reveals that his wife is pregnant with their first child, and does so with a nice Instagram post ...

Add fatherhood to Shohei Ohtani’s growing list of responsibilities ... in Los Angeles that included the firing of his longtime interpreter for theft ended in the first 50-50 season in baseball ...

During the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres' Tokyo Series, news broke that Ohtani's now-former interpreter Mizuhara was linked to illegal sports betting, with some questioning if Ohtani ...

Shohei Ohtani is a three-time MVP and a World Series ... “She is a Japanese woman,” Ohtani said through an interpreter when he announced the marriage during spring training.