His agent won’t talk about it. His interpreter won’t talk about it. Team officials in position to know won’t talk about it.
Not which kind of surgery Shohei Ohtani had, which teams he has met with nor even what sort of deal he is seeking in free agency—although those answers are hard to get, too. No, people close to the two-way star refuse to reveal a much more important fact: the name of Ohtani’s dog.
Since the pup made his public debut Nov. 16 on MLB Network during the announcement of Ohtani’s second American League Most Valuable Player award, Sports Illustrated has asked eight people who might know for even the most basic details about the dog. What is his name? What kind of dog is he? When and how did he come to share his life with Ohtani? (We can assume the dog is male because the Angels, Ohtani’s former team, tweeted a photo of the pair with the caption “two very good boys.”)
