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At least four former Los Angeles Angels baseball players told Fort Worth jurors about their use of oxycodone to help them cope with pain from injuries and surgeries — pills they say were all obtained from the team’s communications director.
Prosecutors said Kay also supplied other Angels players with oxycodone from 2017 to 2019 and kept doing so even after some had left the team. Some of those players testified on Tuesday at the trial, now in its second week, about their purchases and use of the drug. The oxycodone pills, known as “blues” for their color, were dropped off in players’ lockers and in their hotel rooms, according to testimony. The players bit, crushed and snorted the drug to ease the constant pain — even in the clubhouse and dugout.
Matt Harvey, who pitched for the Angels in 2019, told the jury about his experiment with painkillers as well as his use of cocaine, saying he told Skaggs that the illegal stimulant was “more my thing.”“You go through a lot of injuries” and need help with it, said Harvey, who acknowledged having undergone three surgeries.
Skaggs’ widow, Carli Skaggs, told jurors her husband suffered through a lot of injuries and major surgeries during his baseball career that caused him stress because he wanted to win games.Kay, 46, was known to distribute the pills to Skaggs and others at the Angels’ stadium, a federal criminal complaint says. He was indicted by a grand jury in October 2020 on charges of drug distribution and drug conspiracy. If convicted, he could face up to life in prison.
Soon after, the league announced changes to its drug policies and began requiring testing for cocaine, fentanyl and opioids. Those who test positive must enter a treatment program. Players who refuse are subject to discipline. Carli Skaggs, the widow of Tyler Skaggs, walks out of a federal court building after testifying in Fort Worth on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022.
“There was only one person that went to Tyler Skaggs’ hotel room and lied to police about it,” Beran said. Kay at the time was on his first trip since being away from the team for about a month for treatment of an addiction to oxycodone. Defense attorney Reagan Wynn told the jury Kay’s addiction to painkillers went back years and that Kay first connected with Skaggs during spring training in 2014.
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