Ex-Angels employee charged in Tyler Skaggs’ death supplied players with drugs, feds say

Federal prosecutors say they plan to present testimony from several Major League Baseball players who allege they received oxycodone from a former Angels employee who faces trial in the fatal overdose of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, shown in 2019. Federal prosecutors plan to present testimony from “approximately” five Major League Baseball players who allege they received oxycodone from a former Angels employee who faces trial in the fatal overdose of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, according to a court filing late Friday. The filing, which outlines some of the evidence prosecutors will introduce at the trial, accuses former Angels communications director Eric Kay of being the “singular source” who supplied oxycodone to the players in amounts of “two to three pills while others would ask for up to 20 pills.” “The evidence will also demonstrate that Kay often coordinated the distribution through text messages or through conversations involving the victim,” the filing says. In another exchange that started June 8, 2019, Kay offered Angels tickets to a different seller advertising an “M30 shirt.” “Any chance u can get to Angel Stadium? The filing says “that Kay would communicate with individuals during the workday and even ask them to deliver oxycodone pills to Angel Stadium, showing that he had the opportunity to obtain the pills he distributed to on June 30, 2019.” The filing also says law enforcement searched Kay’s office at Angel Stadium in December 2019.