Former Angels employee Eric Kay’s trial began on Tuesday, and the defense said Matt Harvey was a possible drug source for Tyler Skaggs
The Tarrant County medical examiner’s office listed his cause of death as a mixture of “alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone intoxication with a terminal aspiration of gastric contents.”
The prosecution said in its opening statement that an unnamed player will testify who gave Skaggs the pink pills but denied it was before the road trip that ended in Skaggs’s death, as the defense claims. The Texas prosecution must establish that the distribution of the fatal fentanyl took place in the state. In addition to facing a felony charge of causing Skaggs’s opioid related-death, Kay faces a second felony charge: distributing opioids.
The prosecution also stated that Kay distributed opioids to numerous players, and “even got them from the umpire’s clubhouse attendant at the ballpark,” per. In an affidavit supporting the criminal complaint against Kay, it revealed that Skaggs and Kay exchanged text messages on June 30, when the lefthander asked Kay to come to his room and bring pills.
“Eric Kay and Tyler Skaggs were not ‘outside of work’ friends,” assistant U.S. attorney Lindsey Beran said,Former Angels teammate Andrew Heaney began his testimony Tuesday, and six more current and former MLB players are listed as witnesses, including Harvey, Cam Bedrosian, C.J. Cron, Mike Morin, Blake Parker and Garrett Richards.
Harvey is currently a free agent after pitching for the Baltimore Orioles during the 2021 season, during which he recorded a 6.27 ERA in 28 games.
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