At 2:35 on the afternoon of June 30, 2019, less than 24 hours before his drug-related death, Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs allegedly received a text message from the team’s director of communications, Eric Kay.
“[How] many?” Kay wrote.
For years, according to federal prosecutors and reportedly Kay himself, Kay had provided the 27-year-old lefty with oxycodone pills. Here, hours before the team departed on a road trip to Texas, investigators believe that Skaggs requested more.
"Just a few like 5,” Skaggs texted.
“Word,” Kay responded.