Shohei Ohtani, Major League Baseball's highest-paid player, is expected to break his silence Monday afternoon about a gambling scandal that prompted his team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, to fire his interpreter last week. The 29-year-old pitching and home-run-hitting star, who signed a $700 million deal in the offseason to join the Dodgers, is scheduled to address the media before Monday night's spring training game against his former team, the Los Angeles Angels, at Dodger Stadium. It will be the first time Ohtani has faced the media in person since the gambling controversy surfaced involving his friend and Japanese interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, prompting investigations by Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Internal Revenue Service.