Wade Miley responds to allegation that he supplied drugs to Tyler Skaggs
Wade Miley has opened up on the allegations surrounding Tyler Skaggs' death.
Miley, 38, gave a blunt response to the court documents revealed this week that accused him of providing drugs to Skaggs, an Angels pitcher who died from an accidental overdose in 2019.
'I hate what happened to Tyler,' Miley told reporters Friday. 'It sucks. My thoughts are with his family and friends. But I'm not going to sit here and talk about things that somebody might have said about me or whatnot. I was never a witness for any of this. I've never been accused of any wrongdoing.'
Cincinnati Reds' Wade Miley pitches in the first inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland, Monday, June 9, 2025.
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Miley's name was reportedly brought up by Skaggs' former agent Ryan Hamil in a deposition surrounding a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his family against the Angels in June 2021, in which they are seeking $210 million in damages.
'(Skaggs) came clean,' Hamill testified, according to The Athletic. 'He said he had been using – I believe it was Percocets – and he said he got them through Wade Miley.'
The two pitchers were teammates on the Diamondbacks from 2012-13, with Hamill saying he confronted Skaggs about his drug use in 2013.
This is not the first time Miley's name has been brought up regarding Skaggs, as now-convicted ex-Angels communications director Eric Kay mentioned him during a recorded prison phone call with his mother.
Tyler Skaggs throws in the first inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field on June 13, 2019 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Kay, who is currently serving 22 years in prison for providing the fentanyl-laced pills that an autopsy said led to Skaggs' death, told his mother that Miley had been a drug source for the late pitcher.
It still remains unclear how the court documents from the Skaggs family were posted publicly, with attorneys for the Angels accusing the family in court on Monday of posting them intentionally.
Rusty Hardin, the Skaggs family's attorney, has since denied the allegations.
'The documents were filed pursuant to California rules of the court and the existing protective order, and were designated to be conditionally filed under seal,' Hardin told The Athletic.
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