Over the weekend, Harrison Bader was involved in an accident that has delayed Harrison\u2019s prior treatment timeline for plantar fasciitis and, unfortunately, his return to the field. We are still investigating the circumstances of the accident, but will be suspending payment to Harrison until he is able to resume performing services for the Club.<\/p>\n
What I appreciate about that statement is how clumsy it is, because it suggests that Buster didn\u2019t write it using generative AI. Oh, but you\u2019re here for the analysis.<\/p>\n
Well, Harrison Bader was out late Saturday night into Sunday morning and, possibly while intoxicated, crashed the scooter he was riding into the back of a San Francisco Fire Department truck. Maybe it was the force of the impact or the truck was beginning its motion, but one of the tires ran over his foot. So, this is a severely aggravated injury and it will be interesting to see how it impacts his career going forward.<\/p>\n
His time as a Giant would certainly seem to be up in the air, not just given the injury, but because of the foolishness. For all of us who thought this was a bad signing from concept, I don\u2019t think we factored in the player\u2019s behavior very much.<\/p>\n
Even if we accept that most baseball players are overgrown boys, Bader was set to confer with the team\u2019s medical experts the very next day. Plenty of players have been known to hit the field hungover, but doing all of this when you\u2019ve already missed so much time and you\u2019re about to be transported on the team\u2019s dime to evaluate you further just\u2026 it\u2019s beyond a bad look, and whatever moral, ethical, or troll arguments you want to make will probably stick. We don\u2019t even need to ask what Bader was thinking, because we know he wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
What\u2019ll be interesting to see is how the suspension of pay is handled. We don\u2019t know the severity of the injury relative to recovery, for example, so, if his foot was crushed, let\u2019s say, and there\u2019s a 14-month recovery timeline or whatever, does \u201cuntil he is able to resume performing services for the Club\u201d mean his contract will have been, effectively, voided? And will the MLBPA stand for such a maneuver? But also, does \u201csuspending payment\u201d mean the same thing as \u201csuspended without pay?\u201d In the latter, you imagine that he doesn\u2019t get that money once the suspension ends. In \u201csuspending payment,\u201d you can envision a scenario where they need to put that money in an escrow account until the matter is resolved. Careful wording that\u2019s consistent with the current Collective Bargaining Agreement or just another clumsy aspect of the statement? [I\u2019ll probably edit this section once someone clarifies.]<\/p>\n
And then there\u2019s the other complication of the pending lockout. I guess it\u2019s only bad news for Harrison Bader, so I apologize for sounding alarmist.<\/p>\n
The Giants get to save some more dollars to go along with all those open 40-man spots. Should help them pay down Robbie Ray\u2019s contract at the deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the weekend, Harrison Bader was involved in an accident that has delayed Harrison\u2019s prior treatment timeline for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,102878,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-420273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants-news","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}