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TOKYO -- Baseball prima Shohei Ohtani has stunningly revealed he's married.
Ohtani wrote connected Thursday connected Instagram successful Japanese: "The play is approaching but I would similar to denote to everyone that I person gotten married."
He said his caller woman was a "Japanese woman" without identifying her. He said helium would uncover much successful an interview; presumably astatine the Los Angeles Dodgers outpouring grooming venue.
The 29-year-old Ohtani is Japan's biggest celebrity, and determination has ever been curiosity astir his idiosyncratic life, which helium has ever kept precise private. His focus, and his image, has ever been 100%-baseball focused - escaped of scandals oregon tabloid news.
Ohtani moved from the Los Angeles Angels to the Dodgers successful December connected a record-breaking declaration worthy $700 cardinal implicit 10 years.
"I began a caller section successful my vocation with the Dodgers, but I besides person started a caller beingness with idiosyncratic from my autochthonal state of Japan who is precise peculiar to me," helium wrote.
He asked the media refrain from "conducting unauthorized interviews."
The station connected Instagram included a photograph of his canine "Dekopin," which is besides called "Decoy."
He wrote: "We anticipation the 2 of america - and 1 carnal - volition enactment together."
The quality broke successful the mediate of the nighttime successful North America, and precocious day successful Japan wherever it was instantly the apical quality point connected section television.
Local tv reports regular connected his grooming successful the United States and, due to the fact that of his unprecedented occurrence successful North America, helium has go the pridefulness of Japan, and the Dodgers person go Japan's de facto team.
Ohtani is grooming successful Arizona for the Major League Baseball season, preparing for the Dodgers to unfastened successful Seoul, South Korea, connected March 20-21 successful a two-game bid against the San Diego Padres.
Ohtani conscionable underwent country connected his close elbow and volition not transportation this season. He volition beryllium utilized arsenic a designated hitter, and the anticipation exists helium could play successful the field.
In his outpouring grooming debut this week, helium deed a two-run location tally against the Chicago White Sox.
Ohtani has deed 171 location runs - 44 past play - and has a vocation batting mean of .274. His grounds arsenic a pitcher is 38-19 successful 5 seasons. He missed the 2019 play owed to elbow country and has a vocation ERA of 3.01.
He was the American League rookie of the twelvemonth successful 2018, and the American League MVP successful 2021 and 2023, and has often been compared to Babe Ruth for his accomplishment arsenic a two-way player.
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