Former major league infielder Sean Burrows died of a fentanyl overdose in May, TMZ reported, citing the Los Angeles County coroner.
The official cause of death was listed as fentanyl poisoning, according to the media report.
The death was ruled an accident.
The ninth overall pick in the 1998 MLB draft died in May at age 43 after being found unconscious in a parking lot in Long Beach, California, after dropping off his 6-year-old son at a Little League game.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
In a 2011 interview with ESPNBurrows said he struggled with drug addiction.
“I was hanging out with the wrong people and doing the wrong things,” Burrows told the outlet at the time, “and that was more important to my last few years and my final years playing baseball.”
“I was like a trash can. If there was anything I had or needed, I would find it and take it,” he added. “I was never the type of person to go out on the streets. I was trying to take as many drugs as I could, legal or illegal.”
Burrows was coaching his son’s team at the time of his death, and his mother, Debbie, told the Orange County Register at the time that the former Padres infielder died of cardiac arrest.
He became a key player for the team as both a pitcher and hitter, helping the Long Beach All-Star team win consecutive Little League World Series championships in 1992 and 1993.
He pitched consecutive no-hitters in the Little League World Series and appeared on “The Late Show with David Letterman” in 1993.
The son of 1974 American League MVP Jeff Burrows, Burrows was drafted ninth overall by the Padres and played seven major league seasons with San Diego, Tampa Bay, Arizona and Minnesota.
He made his MLB debut in 2002 and batted .282 with 11 home runs over four seasons with San Diego.
He also helped the U.S. team win a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
