The Tyler Drug Scandal — Death, Dealers, and the MLB Fallout

The 2019 death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs reopened in 2025 as court filings and depositions revealed new names and links in a network of prescription pills and illicit supply. Allegations that MLB players — and later a high‑profile club employee convicted in Skaggs’s death — participated in distributing dangerous pills have rippled through baseball.