On June 22, 2020, the world of MLB it shook after the news broke that the player Los Angeles Dodgers’ Andrew Toles arrested in Miami after police found him sleeping on a property inside the city’s airport in apparent destitution and in a very precarious state of mind. Until before this report, everyone, including his family, had lost some trace of the player.
Andrew Toles was at one time one of the most promising players for the Los Angeles Dodgers, having his peak in MLB in the 2016 NL Championship Series, where he hit .462 with a 1.082 OPS; He is now being cared for by his father Alvin Toles day and night, after his schizophrenia and bipolar disorder worsened in the 2019 season, when he failed to report to the Dodgers’ Spring Training and was put on the restricted list due to personal problems.
Since then, Toles has been to at least 20 mental health hospitals, according to information from Bob Nightengale of USA Today, and none could find a solution to the problems of the player, who escaped and lived in destitution for a long time until his father found it. Alvin Toles was able to obtain legal custody of his son Andrew and brought him back to live in his hometown of Decatur, Georgia, where his father cares for him and keeps him in a house less than 50 meters from his.
The truth is that it has not been easy for the Toles family to go through Andrew’s situation, since Alvin, who is a former NFL player, separated from his wife not long ago and still takes care of Andrew’s sister, Kasey 22 years old. Alvin says his son Andrew cannot be in a mental institution anymore, as he is completely traumatized, almost keeping him at home on medication, with little hope of full rehabilitation.
Andrew’s older sister Morgan Toles mentioned to Nightengale that her brother is practically a zombie; it is simply existing and is not very aware of what is going on around it. He doesn’t even know that his Dodgers were World Series champions. No one in his family knows if at some point Andrew’s illness will improve, and hopes are not high.
At the moment the Dodgers are still in contact with Toles’ family, since they have kept him on their restricted list to let him know that he is still part of the organization and have given financial aid to his still player, paying him his salary and hope to take him to a team game when they visit the Atlanta Braves, hoping that seeing some familiar faces like Justin Turner, Clayton Kershaw and their manager, Dave Roberts, can help him out.
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