 No! He literally bought it. If I said he bought it three months ago, I think that might be a stretch. Because of a serious invasion of privacy. The Dodgers hitter is arguably the biggest name in Major League Baseball right now, and that means that there's an immense amount of pressure on him to perform both on and off the field. It was actually the LA Times that first revealed details about the house that Otani had bought, but the Japanese broadcast media then began sharing more extreme details.