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What The Eric Kay Verdict Means For The Angels — And Major League Baseball

What The Eric Kay Verdict Means For The Angels — And Major League Baseball

The Lead · Audible

February 24, 202221m 31s

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Last week in a courtroom in Fort Worth, Texas, a jury found Eric Kay, the former Los Angeles Angels communications director, guilty of distributing counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that led to the death of Tyler Skaggs in 2019. Today, The Athletic's Sam Blum tells us some of the key points that were argued in the trial, what we learned in explosive testimony from some of Skaggs’s former teammates, and what all of this could say about the impact of the opioid epidemic on Major League Baseball.

Follow Sam Blum’s coverage of the Eric Kay trial, and the Angels: https://theathletic.com/author/sam-blum/?source=theleadpodcast

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