Cincinnati Reds left-hander Wade Miley said Friday that he has not been accused of any wrongdoing, one day after reports stated a deposition from a lawsuit alleged he supplied Tyler Skaggs with drugs when both players were with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The deposition is part of a motion for summary judgment filed by the Los Angeles Angels, requesting a lawsuit from the Skaggs family be dismissed.

The deposition from Ryan Hamill, Skaggs’ agent, contains testimony that he was concerned in 2013 about Skaggs’ drug use. Hamill said he and Skaggs’ family confronted Skaggs about his drug use. Skaggs was then in his second season as a teammate of Miley with the Diamondbacks.

“He came clean,” Hamill testified. “He said he had been using — I believe it was Percocets — and he said he got them through Wade Miley.”

Skaggs died on July 1, 2019, at age 27 in a Dallas-area hotel. The autopsy found fentanyl, oxycodone and alcohol in his system.

Miley briefly addressed the issue before Friday’s road game against the Detroit Tigers.

“I hate what happened to Tyler, it sucks. My thoughts are with his family and his friends,” Miley said. “But I’m not going to sit here and talk about things that someone might have said about me or whatnot. I was never a witness for any of this. I was never accused of any wrongdoing.”

Former Angels communications director Eric Kay is serving a 22-year prison sentence in Texas after being found guilty on two charges of providing drugs related on Skaggs’ overdose.

The Athletic reported that the criminal proceedings against Kay included a recorded phone conversation in which Kay told his mother that Miley was a drug source to Skaggs.

Asked if Major League Baseball has contacted him regarding the allegations, Miley said, “I’d rather just focus on the Cincinnati Reds right now and baseball and what I have to do moving forward. I’ve got to get ready for a game on Sunday.”

Miley was mentioned in Kay’s criminal case, but he was never charged with a crime.

Skaggs was traded to the Angels after the 2013 season. He went 28-38 with a 4.41 ERA in 96 career starts.

Miley, 38, is with his eighth big league team and attempting to revive his career after Tommy John surgery in 2024.

Miley has a career 109-99 mark with a 4.09 ERA in 319 games (311 starts) since making his major league debut in 2011. This is his second go-round with the Reds. He was with the team in the 2020 and 2021 seasons, going 12-10 with a 3.55 ERA in 177⅓ innings over 34 starts (32 innings).

The Skaggs family is suing the Angels, contending that high-level team officials, as well as other employees, knew Kay was a drug user and should have known he was Skaggs’ source.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The Belmont Stakes is set to be run at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York for a third consecutive year in 2026.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the New York Racing Association announced Friday that it will be the third and last time the Triple Crown finale is held there before returning to Belmont Park on Long Island in 2027.

“Saratoga has served our fans and stakeholders extremely well as the temporary home of the Belmont Stakes during the construction of a new Belmont Park on Long Island,” NYRA president and CEO David O’Rourke said. “Belmont Park will always be the home of the Belmont Stakes and we look forward to its return to the newly reimagined Belmont in 2027.”

It was confirmation of an expected extension of the race’s stay at Saratoga while Belmont Park undergoes nearly a half-billion dollar renovation project. It is on track to reopen in September 2026, with the Breeders’ Cup returning to New York at Belmont Park in the fall of 2027.

The Belmont will again be run at 1 1/4 miles instead of its traditional 1-1/2 mile distance that has been known as the “test of the champion.” That has been the case the past two years, as well, because of the configuration of the main dirt track.

Aaron Civale is getting his wish for a trade after resisting the Milwaukee Brewers‘ attempt to move him to the bullpen.

The Brewers dealt Civale and $807,000 to the Chicago White Sox for first baseman Andrew Vaughn, the teams announced Friday.

The trade comes two days after the Brewers said they were shifting Civale to the bullpen for the first time in his seven-year career. That was being done to make room for flame-throwing prospect Jacob Misiorowski in the Milwaukee rotation.

But Civale pushed back against the bullpen move, saying he wanted to continue starting, even if that meant getting traded to another team. His agent, Jack Toffey, made the trade request to Brewers general manager Matt Arnold.

“We’re exploring the options to give me the chance to do what I do best, and that’s to go out there and start,” Civale said Thursday.

Civale (1-2, 4.91 ERA), who turned 30 on Thursday and is eligible for free agency after the season, was the odd man out when the Brewers opted to go with a rotation of Misiorowski, Freddy Peralta, Jose Quintana, Quinn Priester and Chad Patrick. Misiorowski tossed five scoreless innings in his major league debut Thursday to help the Brewers win 6-0 in the opener of a four-game series with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Civale, with a 40-37 career record and a 4.06 ERA, said his last regular-season relief performance came in college at Northeastern.

“Whatever’s next, I’m not exactly sure what’s going on,” Civale said. “This is typically early in the season for a trade to go down, but I know what I can do. I think a lot of people know what I can do. Whatever the next steps are, they are. Go from there.”

Civale is now heading from a Brewers team that won the past two National League Central titles to a White Sox club that has lost more than 100 games each of the past two years and is already 21½ games back in the American League Central with a 23-46 record.

Vaughn, 27, was in his fifth season with the White Sox. He was hitting .189 with five home runs and 19 RBIs in 48 games this season before being sent to Triple-A Charlotte in May in hopes of getting him back on track. The Brewers assigned Vaughn to Triple-A Nashville.

Civale becomes the third former Brewers player to join the White Sox in the past month. Chicago claimed infielder Vinny Capra off waivers and signed pitcher Tyler Alexander after Milwaukee designated him for assignment.

In other moves Friday, the Brewers recalled right-hander Grant Anderson and outfielder Drew Avans from Triple-A Nashville. Outfielder Daz Cameron was placed on the paternity list.

Information from The Associated Press and Field Level Media was used in this report.