A former Major League Baseball player who broke Japan's single-season home run record last year has been arrested in Florida on domestic-violence charges, police said Monday. Court records show Wladimir Balentien, 29, is facing a felony false imprisonment charge and a misdemeanor battery charge in a weekend confrontation at his wife's Miami-area house. An attorney for Balentien's wife, Karla, said Monday that the couple, married for about six years, is going through a divorce. The Curacao-born Balentien is an outfielder with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and hit 60 homers last year, breaking Sadaharu Oh's longstanding record of 55. Balentien previously played in the U.S. for the Cincinnati Reds and Seattle Mariners. Read more http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10288537/japan-homer-king-wladimir-balentien-arrested-florida
