 Tonight, the baseball world mourns the sudden death of Angel's pitcher Tyler Skaggs, found dead at just 27 years old. Welcome in to MLB Whip Around. I'm Amber Theoharis, along with Nick Swisher and Eric Karros. We'll get you caught up on tonight's games a little bit later in the show, but first, we begin with the tragic passing of Angel's pitcher Tyler Skaggs. The 27-year-old was found unresponsive in his hotel room this afternoon in South Lake, Texas and pronounced dead on the scene. Foul play is not suspected and an investigation is ongoing. The Angels released this statement earlier today. They said it is with great sorrow that we report Tyler Skaggs passed away earlier today in Texas. Tyler has and always will be an important part of the Angels family. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Carly, and his entire family during this devastating time. With the Angels on the road, fans in Anaheim made their way out to Angel Stadium, starting a memorial. Skaggs was an L.A. native who was drafted by the Angels out of Santa Monica High School in 2009. Tonight's game against Texas was postponed, but Rangers manager Chris Woodward spoke earlier today. I personally heard just tremendous things about him and in L.A. everybody spoke very highly of him. It's just a really sad situation obviously and you know our hearts go out and we're thinking about him. We're thinking about his family, the organization, his wife, everybody that knew him that was friends with him. It's important that we all kind of obviously keep him in our thoughts and prayers but also have just the perspective of you know how fragile life is just really sad. For more on Skaggs death we bring in our MLB insider J.P. Morosie, J.P. obviously an unspeakable loss for Tyler's family. Can you help give us a sense of what kind of person and teammate Tyler Skaggs was? Well good evening Amber and he was at the center of the Angels Clubhouse in so many ways as we just saw actually last night a very upbeat Instagram post from him that was actually his idea for the team to have a Texas themed road trip to play the Rangers. There they are and that photo again was posted just last night by Tyler Skaggs and this again was his idea. He was very close on the Angels team to Mike Trout, very close to Andrew Heaney. I spoke today as well with Brad Ziegler who pitched with him with the Arizona Diamondbacks who spoke to the duality of Skaggs both a very light hearted easy going teammate in the clubhouse but then a very serious competitor on the mountain. In fact this year in so many ways Amber he had really adopted the Angels new usage of analytics and really tried to find different ways to perfect his pitching style and become even better as a pitcher. So very curious young man I had a long talk with him in spring training a number of years ago just so easy to talk to him. I remember walking away from the conversation feeling like I had known him for 10 years. He was that easy to relate to and I think as we reflect on his legacy and his place in the game Amber I think my thoughts really go most of all to his mother Debbie who there is so many wonderful stories of the two of them and their relationship. She was a long time coach at Santa Monica High School as a softball coach and so Tyler really grew up around that field around her players learning the game through that way and actually I was actually just told tonight in fact that Tyler planned to honor his mother's Mexican heritage by playing for Mexico in the next world baseball class and he had taken some steps to do that as a family attribute so it just gives you a sense of how thoughtful a young man Tyler Skaggs was. Man as a mother you just can't imagine the pain that she's in tonight and you just pray that she can find some peace somehow but as you said this happened while the angels were in Texas getting ready to start a series I mean so hard for that organization what are their plans as they attempt to move forward. Well Amber all indications are at least at this point in time from speaking to sources today that they are going to play a game on Tuesday so that this series will resume the Rangers and Angels on Tuesday in Texas obviously with heavy hearts and I certainly I know a lot of people around the Angels organization reflecting back to loss of Nick Adenhart ten years ago that tragic loss. Also this team has really dealt with a lot of tragedy in recent years former pitcher Tommy Hansen passed away three years ago Aaron Cox the brother-in-law of Mike Trout died last year he was a minor league pitcher in the organization and of course during the winter time Luis Valbuena perished in the car accident in Venezuela so the team has gone through a lot this is going to be a very difficult time and I know certainly as Nick and Eric can speak to just the way that the clubhouse functions this is going to be a very difficult time because these players are so used to their routines he's a part of those routines and again as we talked about a central figure in that clubhouse a very fun loving person for so long in the clubhouse so I know a lot of heavy hearts and difficult days ahead for the Los Angeles Angels JP thanks so much for the information stick around we'll talk a little bit later with you in the show. And as he said I mean this one really hits home guys he said baseball is a small fraternity it's a very unique brotherhood and a 27 year old young man is lost tonight and that's very sobering. No it really isn't and you know I go back about a month ago doing an Angels Mariners game and I'm sitting in Brad Osmos office the manager and in comes Tyler and he's joking around with Brad about when am I going to pitch next you know I don't want to rest on five or six days blah blah and then he sees me and he says hey okay how's your son doing so my son a few years ago he and Tyler Skaggs were at the same rehab clinic going through their rehab process and the fact that he asked me about it and that he even remembered as a father I'm thinking man you know forget baseball player we're talking about just the character type of person he was you know you sit back and you hear something like this and you just go it's unbelievable and it makes you take stock in what's really important in life. Yeah I think this is just so much bigger than the game in general I think this is even bigger than the you know this rings true I mean there's just the fraternity of athletes I mean there's always that major respect you have regardless of what you've done you know what the grind is like and and this rings through it all it's just so hard I'm in maybe sitting here I'm a father of two I couldn't even imagine going through you know what his mother's going through right now it's just a sad time for the game and thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected by this. And I remember ten years ago with this organization going through this the grace that Mike Socia led that team forward through this I'm sure we'll see this team band together again and do the same but a very difficult night as we continue to remember Tyler Skaggs who was dead at the age of twenty seven.