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RIP Tyler Skaggs
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Guessing it is more than just the Angels but that is all we are hearing about because of Skaggs' death.
Report: Grand jury hearing evidence on Tyler Skaggs' death as potential criminal charges loom
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ml...ggs-death-as-potential-criminal-charges-loom/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ml...ggs-death-as-potential-criminal-charges-loom/
Former Angels employee charged in overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs
https://www.abc15.com/sports/former...ged-in-overdose-death-of-pitcher-tyler-skaggs
A former employee of the Los Angeles Angels is being charged for allegedly supplying the drugs that killed pitcher Tyler Skaggs last year, according to multiple reports.
Court documents obtained by the L.A. Times and NBC News show Eric Prescott Kay is being charged with illegal possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
Kay is accused of supplying fentanyl to Skaggs before he overdosed and was found dead in his Texas hotel room in July 2019. An autopsy revealed a mixture of fentanyl, oxycodone and alcohol in his system that caused him to choke on his vomit.
The affidavit filed against Kay claims Skaggs would not have died if the fentanyl was not in his system.
The Times reports Kay was director of communications for the Major League Baseball team at the time of the incident. He worked with the team for 24 years and left following Skaggs’ death.
Last October, ESPN reported that Kay told federal investigators that he provided oxycodone to Skaggs and abused it with him for years. He also claimed two team officials knew about Skaggs’ drug use long before his death.
https://www.abc15.com/sports/former...ged-in-overdose-death-of-pitcher-tyler-skaggs
A former employee of the Los Angeles Angels is being charged for allegedly supplying the drugs that killed pitcher Tyler Skaggs last year, according to multiple reports.
Court documents obtained by the L.A. Times and NBC News show Eric Prescott Kay is being charged with illegal possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
Kay is accused of supplying fentanyl to Skaggs before he overdosed and was found dead in his Texas hotel room in July 2019. An autopsy revealed a mixture of fentanyl, oxycodone and alcohol in his system that caused him to choke on his vomit.
The affidavit filed against Kay claims Skaggs would not have died if the fentanyl was not in his system.
The Times reports Kay was director of communications for the Major League Baseball team at the time of the incident. He worked with the team for 24 years and left following Skaggs’ death.
Last October, ESPN reported that Kay told federal investigators that he provided oxycodone to Skaggs and abused it with him for years. He also claimed two team officials knew about Skaggs’ drug use long before his death.
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Ironic that this is the same Eric Kay now charged with providing drugs to Skaggs.
No wonder he also knew the names of other players using drugs...as he was likely their dealer.
It's sad that Skaggs died but why is his dealer being charge with his death? If this is the case, why aren't other dealers that sell to kids that end up dying being charged with their deaths?
They are. There was a story on Oklahoma that they tried to get the death penalty for the dealer who sold heroine that caused an OD. Not saying i support the death penalty, but I have no issues with murder charges. This guy is a drug dealer in my opinion.
Matt Harvey admits to supplying late Tyler Skaggs with drugs
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Federal prosecutors are aiming to prove that former Angels communications director Eric Kay provided the drugs that led to Skaggs’ overdose in July 2019. Harvey, who was with the Angels that season, was granted immunity in the case. Kay’s defense team wants to establish that Skaggs got opioids from multiple sources, and Harvey admitted to being one of those sources.
Harvey testified that he gave Skaggs pink Percocet pills in June 2019. A text message that was shown in court revealed that Skaggs asked Harvey for a pill so Skaggs could be “loosey goosey” for one of his starts. Harvey, who says he illegally used painkillers himself at the start of the 2019 season, admitted to providing Skaggs with oxycodone.
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There is reasonable doubt now. Kay likely gave Skaggs the drugs, but can't be proven he gave the drugs Skaggs OD'd on.
Eric Kay Found Guilty for His Role in Death of Tyler Skaggs
Eric Kay Found Guilty for His Role in Death of Tyler Skaggs (Published 2022)
Kay, a former Angels employee, faces decades in prison for providing an Angels pitcher with the fentanyl that led to his death.
Kay was accused of providing Skaggs with the opioid fentanyl, which was determined to have caused Skaggs’s death at age 27 in a hotel near Dallas. A jury of 10 women and two men found Kay guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance resulting in death and serious bodily injury. With the verdict, Kay faces the possibility of decades in prison.
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Tyler Skaggs’s agent urged him to pitch through pain for years before death, texts show
By Gus Garcia-Roberts and Jack Douglas
Today at 5:00 a.m. EDT
LOS ANGELES — In 2016, Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs was trying to return to the majors after nearly two years sidelined following Tommy John surgery on his elbow. But then he experienced discomfort in his groin and, wary after having suffered various injuries throughout his career, wanted to tell the team.
His agent, Ryan Hamill, disagreed, advising Skaggs that it would jeopardize the service time he needed to qualify for salary arbitration and accompanying seven-figure raises. ... “We can aleeve and Advil the f--- out of it,” Hamill told Skaggs via text, according to court records reviewed by The Washington Post.
Two years later, in 2018, Skaggs described hamstring pain that was “getting worse pretty much every day.” But Hamill repeatedly warned him against taking time off, including by telling him that he would hurt his chances to make the All-Star Game. When Skaggs said the Angels wanted to place him on the injured list, Hamill disagreed. ... “Why no dose pack,” Hamill texted, referring to an anti-inflammatory steroid. “Flush this s--- out.”
The agent’s advice to his client — to play through pain in pursuit of short-term accolades and paydays — underscores the sort of raw dilemma faced by elite athletes who deal with grueling competition and schedules. But as with so many other chapters in Skaggs’s story, the advice seems disastrous in hindsight. ... Skaggs died in 2019 at 27 after ingesting a fentanyl-laced opioid pill on an Angels road trip to Texas. In a trial last month that ended in the conviction of the Angels’ former communications director who gave Skaggs the lethal dose, federal prosecutors suggested that his death was the result of a culture in baseball of self-medicating to be able to play through injuries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/03/22/tyler-skaggs-injuries-opioids-death/
By Gus Garcia-Roberts and Jack Douglas
Today at 5:00 a.m. EDT
LOS ANGELES — In 2016, Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs was trying to return to the majors after nearly two years sidelined following Tommy John surgery on his elbow. But then he experienced discomfort in his groin and, wary after having suffered various injuries throughout his career, wanted to tell the team.
His agent, Ryan Hamill, disagreed, advising Skaggs that it would jeopardize the service time he needed to qualify for salary arbitration and accompanying seven-figure raises. ... “We can aleeve and Advil the f--- out of it,” Hamill told Skaggs via text, according to court records reviewed by The Washington Post.
Two years later, in 2018, Skaggs described hamstring pain that was “getting worse pretty much every day.” But Hamill repeatedly warned him against taking time off, including by telling him that he would hurt his chances to make the All-Star Game. When Skaggs said the Angels wanted to place him on the injured list, Hamill disagreed. ... “Why no dose pack,” Hamill texted, referring to an anti-inflammatory steroid. “Flush this s--- out.”
The agent’s advice to his client — to play through pain in pursuit of short-term accolades and paydays — underscores the sort of raw dilemma faced by elite athletes who deal with grueling competition and schedules. But as with so many other chapters in Skaggs’s story, the advice seems disastrous in hindsight. ... Skaggs died in 2019 at 27 after ingesting a fentanyl-laced opioid pill on an Angels road trip to Texas. In a trial last month that ended in the conviction of the Angels’ former communications director who gave Skaggs the lethal dose, federal prosecutors suggested that his death was the result of a culture in baseball of self-medicating to be able to play through injuries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/03/22/tyler-skaggs-injuries-opioids-death/
Former Angels employee sentenced to 22 years in death of Tyler Skaggs
Former Angels employee sentenced to 22 years in death of Tyler Skaggs
Former Los Angeles Angels employee Eric Kay was sentenced Tuesday for providing drugs to pitcher Tyler Skaggs that led to his 2019 overdose death in Texas.
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