Angels

Testimony in the wrongful death trial against the Los Angeles Angels began Wednesday, Oct. 15, with a former team vice president saying he didn’t recall seeing illicit drugs in the home of a communications staffer who two years later gave pitcher Tyler Skaggs a counterfeit pill containing fentanyl that led to the ballplayer’s death. Taking the stand in a Santa Ana courtroom, … [Read more...] about In trial testimony, former Angels’ VP denies knowing staffer was providing illicit drugs to players

Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died in a hotel room because the ball club allowed an employee they allegedly long knew to be a drug addict and dealer to travel with players on a Texas road trip, attorneys representing Skaggs’ family told an Orange County jury on Tuesday, Oct. 14, as a civil trial began in a wrongful-death case brought against the organization. Angels’ employees … [Read more...] about 6 years after Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs’ shocking death, trial against ball club begins