The Secret World of Baseball Interpreters

EPISODE 122: Explaining the Shohei Ohtani scandal.

Before his best friend got him mixed up in the biggest scandal in baseball, Shohei Ohtani — the most talented baseball prospect of all time — was a kind of child star caught in a state of arrested development.

Enter the Japanese interpreter: part live-in nanny, part spouse in a trans-Pacific shotgun marriage.

We enlist PTFO correspondent Tim Rohan — who last helped us investigate Rick Pitino — to take us inside an intimate profession that’s been rapidly closing ranks, post-scandal.

And it turns out that actual translating isn’t the half of it.

DKN/YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:

Linguistically,

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