MLB star Matt Harvey admits cocaine use during Tyler Skaggs trial

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Former baseball pitcher Matt Harvey has opened up about his own as well as Tyler Skaggs’ drug use as part of the trial involving former Angels employee Eric Kay. The latter is also accused of providing Skaggs with the drugs that may have led to the pitcher’s death.

Eric is currently facing a couple of serious charges and is accused of distributing oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl to Skaggs back in July 2019 before he was found dead in his hotel room while the Los Angeles Angels were on a road trip in Texas.

Notably, the former MLB star was a teammate of Skaggs’ at the time of his demise. According to a report in ESPN, Kay’s attorney said Skaggs had said of the drugs that killed him, “Those are Percocets I got from Harvey.”

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“No one really asked,” Harvey replied.

“Looking back, I wish I had,” Harvey had said. “… Guys are constantly doing what they can to stay on the field. At the time I thought I was being a good teammate.”

Harvey’s former manager – Terry Collins not surprised on his cocaine usage

Harvey’s manager for most of his Mets tenure, Terry Collins, was asked if he was surprised to hear the pitcher had admitted to cocaine usage on a phone call by a NY Post journalist.

“The answer is, probably not,” Collins told The Post. “There was a testing program going on throughout Major League Baseball. We weren’t allowed to do any of our stuff. Some accusations were being thrown around the clubhouse, for sure, but I had no proof of it at all. I can just tell you what the guys were saying.

“There was a time I addressed an off-the-field issue with one of the other guys on the team and his statement was, ‘Well, I’m not doing what Matt Harvey is doing.’ I said, ‘This isn’t about Matt Harvey, this is about you.’ I tried to get off that subject as fast as I could. Was there knowledge in the clubhouse? Without question,” he told.

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