Tyler Skaggs hid his drug addiction, preventing the Angels from providing help before his death, attorney for the ballclub says

Attorneys for the Los Angeles Angels hope to prove that Tyler Skaggs was a drug addict for so long and went to such great lengths to hide his addiction that there was no way for the team to prevent his 2019 death, a lawyer for the organization told an Orange County Superior Court judge on Monday, Dec. 1 as the ongoing wrongful death trial against the ballclub entered the defense phase.

Attorneys for the Skaggs family — who contend the Angels knew about Skaggs drug issues and the fact he was receiving illicit opioids from former team communications staffer Eric Kay — rested their case on Monday morning, after more than a month and a half of testimony from roughly two-dozen witnesses.

Attorneys for the Angels — after briefly telling Judge H. Shaina Colover outside the presence of the jur