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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 · May 17, 2022

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.

Sports Illustrated · May 17, 2022

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.

Tribune News Service · May 17, 2022

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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 · Apr 26, 2022

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".

Los Angeles Times · Feb 23, 2022

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 ...

Sports Illustrated · Feb 18, 2022

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.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 18, 2022

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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…

Tribune News Service · Feb 18, 2022

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.”

Sports Illustrated · Feb 17, 2022

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.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 17, 2022

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.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 17, 2022

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.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 17, 2022

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.

Sports Illustrated · Feb 17, 2022

Report: Matt Harvey Could Face Suspension After Admitting Opioid Distribution

Matt Harvey could be facing punishment for admitting in court he provided Tyler Skaggs with opioids.

Sports Illustrated · Feb 17, 2022

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Los Angeles Times · Feb 16, 2022

Former Angels employee Eric Kay won't testify in his defense, his attorneys indicate

FORT WORTH, Texas — Eric Kay will not testify in his defense, his attorneys indicated in U.S. District Court on Wednesday.

Sports Illustrated · Feb 15, 2022

Matt Harvey Discusses Drug Use in Trial of Former Angels Staffer

In his testimony, the pitcher talked about his discussions with Tyler Skaggs about drugs and his, as well as Skaggs’s, substance use.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 15, 2022

Four former Angels say they received oxycodone pills from Eric Kay

FORT WORTH, Texas — Four former Angels players testified Tuesday to using oxycodone pills they received from Eric Kay, the team’s former communications director charged with giving Tyler Skaggs the drugs that resulted in his death in a suburban Dallas hotel room in July 2019.

Tribune News Service · Feb 14, 2022

Angels staffer told colleague he watched pitcher do 3 opiate lines off menu before he died

In mid July 2019, a couple of weeks after Tyler Skaggs died inside a hotel room in Southlake, Eric Kay's behavior had become erratic, a witness testified Monday.

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Tribune News Service · Feb 12, 2022

Tyler Skaggs' death was early sign of fentanyl problem in Tarrant County, officials testify

FORT WORTH, Texas — The death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs in 2019 was one of the first in Tarrant County involving fentanyl, and that number continues to increase, toxicologists testified Friday in federal court.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 10, 2022

Tyler Skaggs’ mother testifies that Angels pitcher had opioid issue in 2013

FORT WORTH, Texas — On the first full day of testimony in the trial of Eric Kay, a former Angels employee charged with giving pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his death, Debbie Hetman testified that her son admitted he had an issue with Percocet nearly six years…

Tribune News Service · Feb 10, 2022

Los Angeles Angels security guard describes finding player's body in Texas hotel room

Tyler Skaggs' legs and feet in cowboy boots hung off of his Southlake hotel room bed. Blood pooled inside his body at the right side of his face. He had no pulse.

Sports Illustrated · Feb 9, 2022

Matt Harvey Named as Possible Drug Source for Ex-Teammate Tyler Skaggs

Anthony Kay, who's on trial in connection to Skaggs's death, allegedly witnessed Skaggs ingesting drugs he obtained from Harvey on the night of his death.

Tribune News Service · Feb 8, 2022

Jury selected in trial of former Angels employee charged in Tyler Skaggs' overdose death

Jurors in the trial of a Major League Baseball executive accused of providing a controlled substance that caused the death of a Los Angeles Angels player in Southlake will likely hear from a witness to whom prosecutors offered immunity in order to testify.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 4, 2022

Seven former Angels could be summoned as witnesses in Eric Kay trial

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors could call seven former Angels players as witnesses during the trial of the ex-communications director Eric Kay in the fatal overdose of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

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