Baseball player Matt Harvey suspended 60 MLB games.
The reason: He admitted that he handed drugs to his former teammate Tyler Skaggs, who died of an overdose in 2019.
At a trial in February, former star Matt Harvey, 33, admitted he gave Tyler Skaggs “three or maybe four pills” of the opioid type.
At the same time, he admitted that he was a cocaine user before, including during the 2019 season when he played for the LA Angels with Tyler Skaggs.
The MLB (Major League Baseball) organization has now decided to suspend Harvey for 60 games because he violated the league’s drug protocol, according to several US media reports, including the AP.
risky life
Former Angels star Tyler Skaggs died in 2019 at the age of 27 of an overdose in a Texas hotel room. Eric Kay, a former communications director for the L.A. Angels, was convicted in February of providing Skags with drugs that led to his death.
Kai risks up to 20 years in prison when his sentence is set at the end of June.
During the trial, three former club players, including Matt Harvey, testified about drug use in and around the Los Angeles Angels during the time they played for the team.
Harvey agreed to testify at trial in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
Formerly All Stars
The 33-year-old bowler currently plays for the Baltimore Orioles, but is best known for his time with the New York Mets between 2012 and 2018.
He participated in the All-Star Game in MLB in 2013, but only a month later sustained a serious elbow injury that required surgery. It took two years before Harvey returned and since then he has not been able to reach the same heights.
