A judge ruled Bubba Harkins' claim the Angels and MLB defamed him when they fired him for providing sticky substances can go to trial.
dismissed was rejected by an Orange County Superior Court judge on Friday, clearing the way for the case to go to jury trial on July 31.
Attorneys for the Angels and MLB filed a motion for summary judgment on May 31, claiming Harkins conceded in a deposition that he provided “sticky stuff” to visiting pitchers to aid in their grip of the baseball in violation of MLB rules and that he was unable to identify who leaked the details of his 2020 firing to the media.Harkins, the Angels’ visiting clubhouse manager, filed a defamation claim after being fired for providing foreign substances to pitchers.
In 10 minutes of oral arguments before Judge Melissa R. McCormick on Thursday, Adam Lauridsen, the attorney representing the Angels and MLB, argued that the substance itself is illegal because it was “being provided to a pitcher with knowledge that the pitcher is going to apply it to his hand or the ball to get an improved grip.”
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