Tyler Skaggs, a left-handed pitcher with the Los Angeles Angels, has died. He was 27.https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/ml...-texas-age-27/Monday’s game between Los Angeles and the Texas Rangers was cancelled as a result of the death.
RIP.
Tyler Skaggs, a left-handed pitcher with the Los Angeles Angels, has died. He was 27.https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/ml...-texas-age-27/Monday’s game between Los Angeles and the Texas Rangers was cancelled as a result of the death.
RIP.
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Originally Posted by Hockey Guy
Isnt this the 3rd angels starting pitcher to die recently in their mid 20's? (Kile/Adenhart/Skaggs) Fcking bizarre/tragic, dont see how that team really recovers from that this year.
kyle was a cardinal...
Isnt this the 3rd angels starting pitcher to die recently in their mid 20's? (Kile/Adenhart/Skaggs) Fcking bizarre/tragic, dont see how that team really recovers from that this year.
He was also 33 not anywhere close to 20skyle was a cardinal...
I doubt its drug related, MLB tests like monthly. It likely is just a terrible case of early heart disease that was undetected. He was coming into a huge contract year, just a bad beat. By all accounts a good guy.
Maybe you’re thinking of Tommy Hanson who last pitched for the Angels before OD’ing at age 29 in 2015?
Isnt this the 3rd angels starting pitcher to die recently in their mid 20's? (Kile/Adenhart/Skaggs) Fcking bizarre/tragic, dont see how that team really recovers from that this year.
Yeah the story I linked mentions Adenhart was killed by a drunk driver during the 2009 season.
Isnt this the 3rd angels starting pitcher to die recently in their mid 20's? (Kile/Adenhart/Skaggs) Fcking bizarre/tragic, dont see how that team really recovers from that this year.
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This is really weird. Skaggs pitched the day before his death, and seemed totally fine. He had a mediocre game, but no health problems were apparent at all.
I wonder if roids had to do with this. Roids are known to damage the heart, so perhaps he was one of those players abusing them, and he was one of the unlucky ones to develop a fatal problem from it.
I guess it could also be an undiagnosed congenital heart problem, too.
A guy I went to school with (elementary all the way through college) abruptly died at age 34 from one of these. Didn't do drugs. Had a successful career, was married, had a kid, very clean-living guy. Just abruptly died one day from a heart attack. Very sad. We weren't friends, but he was always a nice guy.
We will probably find out soon enough. The only thing being said right now is that it wasn't suicide and that foul play wasn't suspected.
Regarding other Angels players to die...
There was Nick Adenhart who died of a car crash in 2009.
Luis Valbuena, a free agent who had last played for the Angels in 2018, died during the offseason in a car crash in Venezuela.
Donnie Moore killed himself in 1989 after getting released by the Angels in 1988, and failing to make the Majors again. He was best known for blowing 1986 ALCS Game 5, up 3-1 on Boston, and the Angels ultimately lost that series. (Boston later blew the World Series against the Mets partially thanks to one Bill Buckner.) Moore's suicide didn't directly have to do with baseball. He got into an argument with his wife, shot her, and then killed himself. It's possible that the argument wouldn't have happened if he wasn't on edge from his baseball career having failed. While some think that Moore's career collapsed due to ALCS Game 5, in reality he had injury issues in 1987 and 1988, which eventually put an end to his career.
Lyman Bostock was killed in 1978 after getting shot dead, in what was called a case of mistaken identity.
Mike Miley died in 1977 prior to that year's season. He was the Angels' #1 draft pick in 1974, and played during the 1975 and 1976 seasons. He died in a single-vehicle car crash.
In 1974, Bruce Heinbechner died in a head-on car crash.
In 1972, Chico Ruiz died in a car crash.
It's important to note that automobile deaths were a lot more common in the 1970s than today, due to the cars which were much less safe compared to now.
The Angels also had a bus crash in 1992, where miraculously nobody died.
https://halohangout.com/2017/05/22/o...r-anniversary/
It’s also important to note more MLB players were selling automobiles in the off season during the 70’s.
Dec 18, 1944, Red Sox catcher Mo Berg had a cyanide pill and a revolver in his pocket during Werner Heisenberg’s atomic lecture in Italy.
Mo used neither.
I don’t think he ever met Chico.
nvm
Is a four month autopsy normal?The Terrant County (Texas) Medical Examiner told reporters it would begin an autopsy on Tuesday and estimates it will be completed on Oct. 2. The medical examiner will withhold any autopsy information until then per the family's request, according to USA Today's Gabe Lacques.
https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/07/02/ty...october-angels
Yes.
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