MLB: Pitcher Matt Harvey implicated in Tyler Skaggs case; it was his alleged ‘dealer’

The case of the death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs It is quite tragic in many ways, since the pitcher was struggling with a strong addiction to alcohol and drugs, mainly opiates, which according to police investigations were provided within from the same Angels organization. The main one listed is former employee Eric Kay, but there appears to be a player involved as well.

At the first hearing of Kay’s trial, the defense attorney brought up the name of pitcher Matt Harvey, who, according to the defense, argued that on the day he died, Kay asked Tyler Skaggs who had provided him with some Percocet pills. commercial for a brand of drug that mixes oxycodone and acetaminophen) with Skaggs allegedly saying “Matt Harvey gave it to him.”

ESPN reporter TJ Quinn mentions that Harvey will be called to testify in the Skaggs death case and Eric Kay’s involvement in his death. In addition, Quinn mentions that the autopsy of the deceased pitcher found no trace of Percocet in his body, although the police experts did find pills of said brand in the hotel room where Skaggs died.

Skaggs and Harvey were partners during the 2019 MLB season, the first of the “Knight of the Night” after his departure from the New York Mets.

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie at Al Bat in early 2018 and am in my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I’m a fan of the San Francisco Giants, number one defender of Barry Bonds, and hater of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to have the World Series taken from them for their cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy football, flag football, basketball, and just about any other game that involves a ball or ball. I’m also an amateur musician, a penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the world capital of shrimp, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived for a while in Australia; I survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

see more