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Active MLB Pitcher Alleged To Have Provided Prescription Drugs to Tyler Skaggs

Reds pitcher Wade Miley was alleged to have been an early source of prescription drugs for Tyler Skaggs, per a report from Sam Blum of The Athletic.

Sports Illustrated

Four years later, Andrew Heaney remembers Tyler Skaggs the person, not the tragedy

ARLINGTON, Texas — Maybe Andrew Heaney will carve “45″ in the dirt behind the pitching rubber when he takes the mound Sunday. Maybe he will start the game against Houston with a big overhand curveball, a pitch he does not throw. Maybe he will just look at his right wrist…

Tribune News Service

Former Mets All-Star Matt Harvey Announces Retirement From Baseball

The veteran pitched for nine years in MLB.

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Judge OKs lawsuit against Angels over Tyler Skaggs death

A California judge is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against the Los Angeles Angels over the drug-related death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs

The Independent UK

A former Los Angeles Angels employee gets 22 years in Tyler Skaggs' overdose death

Eric Kay was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for providing Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his overdose death in 2019.

WEKU

Ex-Angels employee sentenced to 22 years in prison in Tyler Skaggs overdose death

FORT WORTH, Texas — Former Angels communications director Eric Kay was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Tuesday after being convicted of providing counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that led to the overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

Los Angeles Times

Ex-Angels Employee Sentenced to 22 Years for Tyler Skaggs’s Death

Eric Kay had been found guilty on two counts of drug distribution resulting in death and drug conspiracy in February.

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Former Angels employee sentenced to 22 years in Tyler Skaggs overdose death

Eric Kay was convicted on one count each of drug distribution resulting in death and drug conspiracy.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ex-Angels employee sentenced to prison for supplying drugs in Tyler Skaggs overdose death

Los Angeles Times

Good Riddance, Arte Moreno. Thanks for Wasting Trout and Ohtani

His ownership is defined by mismanagement and utter disappointment. His exit can’t come soon enough.

Sports Illustrated

Q&A: What’s next for the Angels: Leaving Anaheim? New owner? Shohei Ohtani?

Arte Moreno is exploring selling the Angels, the team announced Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times

Gene Collier: Matt Harvey's ban just the latest development in baseball's saddest story

PITTSBURGH — Sentencing for former Los Angeles Angels communications director Eric Kay is set for June 28, right about the moment the 60-day suspension Major League Baseball imposed on pitcher Matt Harvey this week is set to expire, and that's just one of a thousand or more perverse coincidences in…

Tribune News Service

Orioles’ Matt Harvey suspended 60 games for drug distribution following testimony in Tyler Skaggs-Eric Kay trial

BALTIMORE — Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that Orioles pitcher Matt Harvey has been suspended 60 games without pay for violating the league’s joint drug prevention and treatment program.

Tribune News Service

MLB Suspends Matt Harvey 60 Games for Violating Joint Drug Program

The suspension comes after Harvey testified in the Eric Kay trial that he supplied Tyler Skaggs with opioids while the two were teammates.

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Ex-Met Matt Harvey suspended 60 games for drugs three months after testifying in Angel staffer Eric Kay case

The Matt Harvey story has taken another sad turn.

Los Angeles Times

Judge denies new trial for Eric Kay in Tyler Skaggs' death

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in Texas rejected Eric Kay's request for a new trial Tuesday, more than two months after a jury found the former Angels communications director guilty of providing counterfeit oxycodone pills that led to the overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

Los Angeles Times

El veredicto contra Eric Kay es el inicio de un largo y triste camino para Angels, MLB y la familia Skaggs

En la primera frase de su declaración de clausura el jueves, el gobierno federal dejó claro de qué creía que se trataba este juicio. "Este caso", dijo al jurado la fiscal adjunta Lindsey Beran, "es sobre una persona".

Sports Illustrated

Labor Wars: A New Hope (Well, Maybe)

With 10 days to go until the MLB lockout impacts the scheduled start of the regular season, the two sides have made little progress on a new collective bargaining agreement. Yesterday in Manhattan, where temperatures were in the 50s and the atmosphere ideal for some spring baseball, the ...

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Los Angeles Times

Eric Kay verdict is the start of a long, sad road for Angels, MLB and Skaggs family

FORT WORTH, Texas — In the very first sentence of its closing statement Thursday, the federal government made clear what it believed this trial was all about.

Tribune News Service

Former Angels employee Eric Kay found guilty of drug charges in Tyler Skaggs' overdose death

FORT WORTH, Texas — An opiate addict and dealer operating in the bowels of Angel Stadium, where he worked handling press inquiries, provided to a starting pitcher a fentanyl-laced pill that led him to aspirate vomit and die during a road trip to Texas in 2019, a jury in Fort…

Sports Illustrated

Skaggs Family, Angels Release Statements After Eric Kay Is Found Guilty

Said the Skaggs family: “Tyler was the light of our family. He is gone, and nothing can ever bring him back. We are relieved that justice was served.”

Los Angeles Times

Eric Kay found guilty of supplying drugs that led to death of Angels’ Tyler Skaggs

FORT WORTH, Texas — A jury on Thursday found Eric Kay guilty of giving Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his death in July 2019.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jury convicts former Angels employee in Tyler Skaggs’ overdose death

Eric Kay was convicted of one count each of drug distribution resulting in death and drug conspiracy. He faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced on June 28.

Los Angeles Times

Eric Kay found guilty of supplying drugs that led to Tyler Skaggs’ death

FORT WORTH, Texas — A jury on Thursday found Eric Kay guilty of giving Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his death in July 2019.

Sports Illustrated

MLB Drug Testing Finds No Opioid Violations in Two Seasons

Five players testified that Eric Kay, who faces charges relating to Tyler Skaggs’s death, provided them with oxycodone.

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