Will The Angels Face Consequences For Tyler Skaggs’s Death?

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🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Former Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs unexpectedly died in July. An autopsy revealed he had fentanyl and oxycodone in his system. New reporting suggests an Angels employee — who is cooperating with the DEA — supplied drugs for Skaggs and that two other high-ranking executives knew about Skaggs's drug use as early as 2017. In this episode, The Athletic’s Katie Strang looks back at Skaggs's death, explains how the Angels organization might have mishandled the case, and analyzes the potential liability for the team and Major League Baseball itself.

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0:00.0	Over the weekend, there was a bombshell report about the death of Angel's pitcher Tyler
0:11.6	Skags.
0:13.2	Eric K, a longtime public relations employee for the Angels, made a number of startling
0:18.4	allegations to DEA agents.
0:21.5	According to ESPN's outside the lines, Eric K, a member of the Angels Front Office,
0:27.0	told federal investigators that he supplied opioids to Skags, who died of an overdose this
0:32.6	summer.
0:33.6	K also said that two high-ranking Angels executives were aware of Skags' drug use.
0:39.3	K told agents that the first time he mentioned Skags' use to a team official was in 2017.
0:46.0	The Angels have denied these claims.
0:48.4	Today, the Athletics Katie Strang explains what we know about Tyler Skags' death.
0:53.7	How the Angels organization might have mishandled the case and the potential repercussions on MLB's
1:00.0	drug policy.
1:02.2	From wondering in the Athletic, I'm Kabytha Davidson.
1:05.1	And I'm Anders Keltow.
1:06.6	It's Wednesday, October 16th, and this is The Lead.
1:10.4	It felt like something great was happening.
1:14.6	There was just something about the emotion and the heart of the people.
1:18.8	The values of the past don't matter because we've got this now.
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1:25.7	This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home.
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