If you are just waking up, where have you been? The Braves kicked off their postseason by adding righty outfielder Lane Thomas from the Royals. If you had been reading us all this time, you may have had an inkling.
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From Lane Thomas's Fangraphs profile, he appears to have peaked in 2023. He hit 28 home runs with the Nationals that year and compiled 2.9 WAR. But he hasn't reached those heights since. Lane suffered a left MCL injury in April 2024 before being shipped to the Guardians. In 2025, he suffered a bone bruise before serving two IL stints for plantar fasciitis. However, he was able to keep away from scooters long enough to come back and have a league average offensive season in the outfield for Kansas City. Now, I feel you may not be sold on Thomas in the same way that the Braves were. Nevertheless, if Atlanta employs him in the correct manner, he becomes a very useful piece.
A brief aside to mention a couple of things. Shoutout to Ivan to get me started on this, and we'll hopefully catch some typos later if necessary. Also, thanks to whomever leaked this trade info before 10 pm so we had time to put something together for Sunday morning.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants are suspending payment to injured outfielder Harrison Bader after he aggravated his injured left foot during a scooter accident last weekend.
Bader has been out since late May dealing with plantar fasciitis in his left foot. The team said the injury got worse following the accident early Sunday morning in San Francisco.
"Over the weekend, Harrison Bader was involved in an accident that has delayed Harrison's prior treatment timeline for plantar fasciitis and, unfortunately, his return to the field," Giants President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey said in a statement Friday. "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."
Bader signed a two-year, $20.5 million contract with the Giants before this season that includes a $4.5 million base salary for this season. He is owed $1.42 million for the remainder of the season.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Bader was involved in a vehicle collision while riding his scooter around 2 a.m. Sunday morning in San Francisco's Marina District. He was taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

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The San Francisco Giants will be withholding payment to Harrison Bader following a late-night scooter accident that worsened his left foot injury, the team announced Friday. Bader was announced as out for the season on Thursday.
In a statement attributed to president of baseball operations Buster Posey, the Giants said they were still looking into the accident that "delayed" Bader's return from plantar fasciitis, but would not be paying him until he's performing again:
"Over the weekend, Harrison Bader was involved in an accident that has delayed Harrison's 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."
Bader signed a two-year, $20.5 million contract with the Giants in free agency last offseason. It seems likely he will file a grievance against the Giants through the MLB Players ***** ociation, which happens pretty much any time a team unilaterally withholds money from a player.
Curiously, Giants manager told reporters on Thursday that he believed Bader's return "would have been a longshot to begin with" due to the plantar fasciitis. One would imagine that comment being of interest for the MLBPA.

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The Giants said Harrison Bader will miss the remainder of the season after being involved in a late-night scooter accident
Bader was already scheduled to meet with a specialist for his ongoing foot discomfort on Monday, July 27 after sustaining further injuries in the scooter accident
A source told the SFist that Bader crashed into a San Francisco fire engine just before 2 a.m.
San Francisco Giants center fielder Harrison Bader will miss the rest of the season after he suffered a "major injury" in a scooter accident.
The Giants put Bader, 32, on their injury report list on Tuesday, July 28, citing that he "had a scooter accident on Saturday night/early Sunday morning and further injured" his left foot, which he had been seeking special treatment on for left plantar fasciitis prior to the scooter accident.

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San Francisco Giants outfielder Harrison Bader is done for the season due to a foot injury that wasn't helped by a late-night scooter accident last weekend.
Giants manager Tony Vitello told reporters Thursday that Bader is out for the rest of 2026, according to NBC Sports Bay Area's Alex Pavlovic. However, Vitello reportedly said that was already the case due to Bader's pre-existing case of left plantar fasciitis, rather than the scooter accident.
Vitello reportedly said the team was still sorting through the details of that accident.
A report from SFist provided new details earlier Thursday. Bader's accident reportedly occurred at around 2 a.m. on Sunday, when the 32-year-old crashed his scooter into a fire engine in the vicinity of Balboa Cafe, a popular bar in San Francisco's Marina District.
From SFist:

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Former Florida baseball star Harrison Bader's injury woes just got worse, much to the chagrin of his current MLB club, the San Francisco Giants.
The 10-year MLB veteran has been out since May 29 battling left plantar fasciitis. He then exacerbated that injury in a scooter accident over the weekend, according to the Giants.
Bader met with a foot and ankle specialist in Indianapolis on Monday, but the evaluation "was complicated by the fact that he had a scooter accident on Saturday night/early Sunday morning and further injured his same foot," according to the franchise's representative.
"The impact of that injury changed the nature of his evaluation, which had originally been to determine the severity of the initial injury/condition," the Giants said.
The center fielder then returned to San Francisco, where he was further examined again on the same day. He was expected to receive an MRI on Tuesday to "better understand the severity of the injuries sustained from the scooter accident," according to the club.

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San Francisco Giants outfielder Harrison Bader was involved in a weekend scooter accident that aggravated his left foot injury, the team announced July 28.
Bader played for the Cincinnati Reds for part of the 2023 season. He has played for seven teams over 10 MLB seasons.
Bader hasn't played since May 29 because of left plantar fasciitis.
The Giants said Bader met with a foot and ankle specialist July 27 in Indianapolis, but it "was complicated by the fact that he had a scooter accident on Saturday night/early Sunday morning and further injured his same foot."
The Reds are scheduled to visit the Giants in San Francisco August 24-26.

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San Francisco Giants outfielder Harrison Bader was involved in a weekend scooter accident that aggravated his left foot injury, the team announced July 28.
Bader played for the Cincinnati Reds for part of the 2023 season. He has played for seven teams over 10 MLB seasons.
Bader hasn't played since May 29 because of left plantar fasciitis.
The Giants said Bader met with a foot and ankle specialist July 27 in Indianapolis, but it "was complicated by the fact that he had a scooter accident on Saturday night/early Sunday morning and further injured his same foot."
The Reds are scheduled to visit the Giants in San Francisco August 24-26.

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Add one bizarre injury to the San Francisco Giants season.
Harrison Bader was headed to Indianapolis to meet with a foot and ankle specialist for his left plantar fasciitis that sidelined him for two months on Monday, but ran into a bit of trouble late-Saturday, early-Sunday morning.
Bader, 32, was involved in a scooter accident in San Francisco, the team announced, which further injured the outfielder's sore left foot. He will have an MRI "to better understand the severity of the injuries sustained from the scooter accident," the Giants said.
Bader still made it to Indianapolis to meet the specialist on Monday, but the accident complicated the meeting.
"Reached out to him, asked him if he was OK. Obviously he's not better than he was prior to that," manager Tony Vitello said. "It's going to delay the recovery process for him, but even prior to it, you're looking at a pretty frustrating long runway."

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Brooklyn Nets guard Egor Demin had his 2025-26 rookie NBA season ended prematurely due to plantar fasciitis in his left foot that left some fans wondering how he would recover. Brooklyn saw Demin show more of his potential, especially with how well he shot the three-pointer compared to his one-and-done season at BYU and it looks like he carried that into this summer.
Demin has played so well during the California Classic that some around the league, specifically No Ceilings founder Tyler Rucker for the purpose of this article, arguing that the Russian has shown enough already. Through just two games in the Classic, Demin is averaging 23.0 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 3.0 **** ists per game while shooting 55.6% from the field and 26.7% from behind the three-point line.
Demin, 20, ended his rookie season with averages of 10.3 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 3.3 **** ists per game while shooting 39.9% from the floor and 38.5% from deep in 52 games played. The former BYU Cougar said prior to the Classic that he was focusing a significant portion of his time in the weight room so that he could get strong enough to be more of a threat off the dribble.
"[I'm] trying to drive to the rim as much as I can, more than I used to, and embrace the physicality, and my positional advantages," Demin said after his first game in the Classic when he dropped 23 points and seven rebounds against the Sacramento Kings. "I would say from a size standpoint, and just been working on a lot of stuff that I want to execute this this year."
Demin will likely play at the beginning of the Las Vegas Summer League, but it's possible that if he continues to play well that he may just one or two games so that the Nets can evaluate the rest of the players on the roster. Whichever way it goes, Demin has showcased how much he has improved from last season and if he keeps going, he'll have the kind of second year that will excite fans about the immediate future.

LONDON (AP) — Sure, Naomi Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam champion who also impresses with her fashionable outfits.
On Tuesday, she sounded like the rest of us. The plantar fasciitis was acting up. She’s working too much.
“I’m just getting old,” Osaka said.
The 28-year-old Osaka’s Wimbledon run and fashion show ended in a 7-6 (4), 6-4 loss to Karolina Muchova in the quarterfinals of the grass-court Grand Slam.
Osaka, a former No. 1 player, had ousted top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in the fourth round — with arguably some of her best tennis since returning from maternity leave — but couldn't find her rhythm Tuesday against her Czech opponent.

Brooklyn Nets guard Egor Demin came into this offseason hoping to demonstrate what he has been working on since his rookie season was cut short due to plantar fasciitis in his left foot. Brooklyn is looking for players like Demin to show that they have improved from last season and he put that on display with the first game the Nets played as part of their summer circuit.
"It feels great. I mean, it's always awesome to be back after a while not playing the game I love. So, it feels awesome," Demin said after Saturday's 79-76 loss to the Sacramento Kings in the California Classic. Demin finished the game with 23 points and seven rebounds which made him by far the leading scorer for Brooklyn as well as being the third-leading rebounder.
"I don't want to say pressure of being a leader, but kind of embracing the role of a guy who's spent a year in the NBA already," Demin said when asked what his motivation was for his performance against Sacramento. "I want to take that role of myself, coming here and lead the team, mentally on the bench and on the court as well, right? As much as I just tried to do what I've been working on this whole summer."
Demin, 20, is coming off a rookie season in which he averaged 10.3 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 3.3 ******* ists per game while shooting 39.9% from the field and 38.5% from behind the three-point line. Demin, the eighth overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, is one of four players from his draft class that are playing, or expected to play, in the summer circuit along with Drake Powell, Ben Saraf, and Danny Wolf.
Demin struggled shooting the ball from long-range as he finished the game shooting 2-of-8 from three-point land, but his ability to get to the rim was impressive to watch, especially considering how much he struggled in that area this past season. It's unknown how much Demin will play in Sacramento and/or in Las Vegas as part of the summer circuit, but so far, he has shown that he has gotten better since last season and he recognizes it.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It's not the start to the holiday weekend that the Angels wanted.
Left-hander Reid Detmers got tagged for five earned runs, the offense was non-existent until the eighth inning and Logan O'Hoppe left the game after a foul ball hit him in the mask, and he is now under concussion protocol in the Angels' 5-2* loss against the Red Sox on Friday night.
"We don't really know yet, we've got to kind of see what the tests show with the doctor," Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said about the status of O'Hoppe. "After the doctor looks at him, we're going to see where we're at. But he's just going through some protocol testing right now."
It could be a huge blow to the Angels if O'Hoppe heads to the injured list, as the Angels are already thin on catching depth with Travis d'Arnaud on the injured list with plantar fasciitis and will not return for at least another couple of weeks.
If O'Hoppe does indeed hit the injured list, the catching tandem in Anaheim will likely be Tyler Heineman and Logan Porter.