Eric Kay told detective that he spoke to Angels’ VP about doing drugs with Tyler Skaggs years before pitcher’s death

Eric Kay, the Los Angeles Angels’ staffer who provided Tyler Skaggs with illicit opioid pills, told a Texas detective that years before the pitcher’s death Kay had informed a vice president of the ballclub that he had used drugs with Skaggs, according to testimony Tuesday, Dec. 9 in an ongoing wrongful death trial.

Delaney Green, who investigated Skaggs’ death in a Texas hotel room at the start of an Angels’ road trip in July 2019, confirmed that Kay, in an interview with law enforcement, alleged that he previously had spoken to Tim Mead — a former Angels’ vice president and Kay’s former boss — about his drug ties to Skaggs.

“Did Erik Kay tell you and the DEA that in 2017 he told Tim Mead about using drugs with Tyler Skaggs?” an attorney asked Green during a brief portion of a deposition