An Angels staffer on Monday, Oct. 20 denied knowing that a former co-worker tied to the death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs had long struggled with an addiction to opioids, as the wrongful death trial against the ball club entered its second week.

Tom Taylor, a longtime traveling secretary with the Angels, acknowledged during his testimony in Orange County Superior Court that despite former Angels communications staffer Eric Kay’s at-times abnormal behavior over the years, he never reported Kay for potential violation of the team and league substance abuse policies. Kay is now in federal prison for providing Skaggs with a counterfeit pill containing fentanyl that led to the pitcher’s death in 2019.

Taylor, a longtime personal friend of Kay’s, also denied that Kay admitted to him in 2013 that h

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