When Brett Phillips learned this morning that his former teammate, Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, had announced his marriage on Instagram, Phillips cycled through reactions. He was happy for his friend. He was curious about the wedding. And mostly he wondered if he’d been a bad teammate.
“I do feel bad that I didn’t even know he had a girlfriend,” Phillips says.
Phillips, now with the Chicago White Sox, shouldn’t feel too bad. He only played with Ohtani for part of one season; star Los Angeles Angels centerfielder Mike Trout, who spent six years with Ohtani, didn’t know, either.
