Overview
- The judge let jurors hear Eric Kay’s deposition in which he told a Texas detective his direct supervisor knew his relationship with Tyler Skaggs involved drug use or distribution.
- The Angels began their case by replaying CJ Cron’s testimony that Skaggs told him Kay could get opioids and that Cron paid cash for pills in the clubhouse between 2015 and 2017.
- Carli Skaggs testified she did not know of her husband’s illicit use, acknowledged a pill-sharing culture, and faced texts showing Skaggs sought a pain pill from a teammate and joked he was a “drug addict.”
- Team orthopedist Neal ElAttrache said he was not told of any prior opioid issue before Skaggs’ 2014 Tommy John surgery and that he would have managed pain differently if informed.
- The family seeks about $120 million in damages, and the trial is slated to finish in mid-December as Kay serves a 22-year sentence for providing the fentanyl-laced pill tied to Skaggs’ 2019 death.