Former left-handed Tyler Skaggs was a three-sport athlete at Santa Monica High School, playing baseball, ball, and football. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Angels from 2012 until his death in 2019.

His parents were athletes: his mother Debbie was a longtime head softball coach at Santa Monica High School, while his father Darnell played high school baseball as a shortstop.

His stepfather, Dan Ramos, played college baseball as well. Growing up, Skaggs attended his mother’s softball practices, where he assisted the players by fielding balls.

News of Skaggs’s death triggered an outpouring of grief in Major League Baseball. On July 2, Patrick Corbin of the Washington Nationals, who was drafted in the same round as Skaggs and had been traded with him to Arizona, switched his jersey number to Skaggs’s No. 45 for a game against the Miami Marlins.

Meet Carli Miles Tyler Skaggs Wife

Tyler Skaggs until his death was married to Carli Miles. Skaggs married his girlfriend, Carli Miles, on New Year’s Eve in 2018. Media report indicates that Tyler Skaggs proposed love to ho Carli Miles while they were on vacation in Bora in 2017.

Their wedding location was nearly razed down by raging wildfires but the two were planning to marry in Malibu, California.