The destiny of Matt Harvey‘s baseball profession in the meanwhile has been revealed.
Harvey—who testified in court docket in February that he supplied the late Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs with medication—has acquired a 60-game suspension with out pay that retroactively went into impact on April 29, based on MLB.com.
According to the positioning, Harvey’s suspension comes because of violating the Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
Harvey—who as soon as performed for the Los Angeles Angels and now’s contracted with the Baltimore Orioles—was suspended by Major League Baseball after he supplied an affidavit within the trial of Eric Kay, per ESPN.
Kay, who was previously the Los Angeles Angels communications director, was delivered to trial over the July 2019 dying of Skaggs—who was present in his Texas lodge room after having suffocated from his personal vomit. Skaggs’ post-mortem decided that he had fentanyl, oxycodone and alcohol in his system.
In February, Harvey testified in court docket that he had used cocaine and oxycodone himself throughout his profession, and likewise supplied Skaggs with oxycodone tablets whereas on the Los Angeles Angels workforce, per ESPN. Throughout the trial, Harvey and 4 different Los Angeles Angels alums admitted to receiving opioids from Kay.
After the eight-day trial ensued, a jury discovered Kay responsible on two felony prices (together with offering the medication that resulted within the dying of Skaggs).
