Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout testified on Tuesday that he loved his former teammate Tyler Skaggs “like a brother.” He also mentioned that he never saw the signs of substance use before Skaggs’s brutal overdose during the team’s trip to Texas in 2019.

Mike Trout, the three-time American League MVP and one of the Angels’ and the league’s most recognized figures, took the stand in a civil trial in Southern California examining whether the Angels franchise bears the responsibility for Skaggs’s death. The case centers around whether Eric Kay, who was then the former communications director, provided Skaggs a fentanyl-laced pill that led to his untimely death.

Trout, speaking rather quietly and even acknowledging that he doesn’t like public speaking, described the close friendship

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