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Skaggs' Family Lawyer: Angels to Blame for Fatal Overdosewww.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46596782/lawyer-argues-angels-responsible-skaggs-overdose-death
392 sats \ 5 comments \ @Cje95 16 Oct Stacker_Sports
The more I have read into this civil case the more and more it reeks of a coverup by the Angels. The Angels paid for Eric Kay's legal team during his criminal case for supplying Tyler Skaggs with fent laced pills that caused his overdose and actually three years after he was convicted and started his Federal Prison sentence continue to pay for his defense. Not to mention the lead defense attorney for the criminal case was Michael Molfetta.... his son's high school baseball coach was Eric Kays brother Brett Kay.... and then signed Christian Molfetta the attoney's son as a minor league free agent when his stats..... they were no where near good enough to him to last 4 years in the organization.... his best hitting season.... he hit 200 in A+ in double and triple A he hit under 200.
The Angels entire defense relies on saying that the Angels had no idea that this type of behavior was going on when we had multiple athletes testify in the criminal trial about being supplied by Kay, how he didn't have a track record of doing terrible things or having inappropriate relationships within the organization things that have all be settled.... and how all of this stuff has been documented as occurring.
At the end of the day yes Tyler Skaggs was the one who took the pills, even though he thought they were something else, no one forced him to. However, it is also clear from the criminal case testimony that the Angels just had no sort of order or control over their own employees and appropriate behavior. This lets someone who is abusing continue to instead of getting help and that is the sad part. The Angels could have set up basic things that most if not all teams have to help their players. Angels didnt do that and a player ended up paying with his life.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 16 Oct
Angels are just a mess.
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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 OP 16 Oct
Yes they are.... its interesting to hear all the rumors being kicked up like how Arte Moreno isnt really involved anymore but rather the Angels President, John Carpino, is the one running everything.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 23h
Too bad bad Arte didn’t sell.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 16 Oct
Yeah, no matter how negligent the organization was in keeping Kay on the payroll, I still don't think they are liable for Skaggs' death. (Just speaking from my perspective, I have no idea what the law actually says).
It sounds like Kay has some deep connection to the organization though, which wasn't made clear in the article. Why do they protect him so much?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 23h
So the issue is that the environment created by the organization was very poor and this stuff was common place and accepted. Kay was a known drug user going back to 2013 and had even been sent to rehab by the team. Its unclear if he ever got sober as his office was a known place to do drugs and at one point a team employee was sent to go check on him at his house. The team employee found him from my understanding blitzed and breaking down pills into tiny baggies for ya know.... distribution.
Other employees within the organization had to take drug test (Kay didnt) and if drug instances occurred (especially at team facilities) it was reported and these people were fired. This stuff never happened to Kay but the trail of evidence is damming to say the least. For instance Kay was also caught doing lines in the clubhouse kitchen, Kay gave Skaggs the pills on team travel to Dallas, and Kay was in his room the night he died.
As part of the case the Angel initially wanted to argue that Kay didnt do it. That was there defense just a couple of weeks ago before the Judge told them they could not reargue the facts and conclusions reached in the criminal trial.
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