SAN DIEGO — The ramifications of Harrison Bader’s late-night scooter crash have gone beyond the lines and into his bank account.

The Giants will not issue anymore paychecks for the time being to the free agent outfielder they signed to a two-year, $20.5 million contract this past winter.

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President of baseball operations Buster Posey announced the drastic move in a statement Friday, almost a week after Bader crashed his scooter in the early hours of this past Sunday morning.

The crash, Posey said, “delayed Harrison’s prior treatment timeline for plantar fasciitis and, unfortunately, his return to the field.” While the club continues to investigate the circumstances of the accident, the Giants “will be suspending payment to Harrison until he is able to resume performing services for the Club.”

The Giants’ legal department had been looking into Bader’s crash, according to the San Francisco Standard, and there exists language in MLB’s collective bargaining agreement that could back up the organization’s move to penalize him financially.

Section 5(b) of the CBA prohibits players without written consent from their team from engaging in activities “involving a substantial risk of personal injury,” which could apply to the operation of a motorized scooter, though that is not expressly outlined in the provision.

It could be a tricky point for the Giants to argue, given the prevalence of scooter-riders to pass through their clubhouse. The electric two wheelers have been a popular mode of transportation among players, and one team member granted anonymity to speak candidly sympathized with Bader, telling the Post that “90% of us have been on a scooter at 1 a.m.”

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This is a unique situation as only Bader managed to injure himself while aboard the scooter. Although manager Tony Vitello said it would have been a “long shot” for Bader to return from the plantar fasciitis that had kept him out since May, the crash ended any doubt that he was done for the season after appearing in only 30 games.

Potentially aiding the Giants’ case, the incident took place at 1:50 a.m. this past Sunday morning in the heart of one of San Francisco’s liveliest nightlife districts as bars began to close. The team has not said whether it believes alcohol to be a factor, though Bader was allegedly inebriated when he previously crashed another scooter into the back of a parked car in 2014 while at the University of Florida.

One eyewitness told SFist that Bader crashed his scooter into the back of a San Francisco Fire Department engine, which then backed over his foot, “causing major injury.” According to the San Francisco fire and police departments, the incident took place on the same block in the Marina district as the popular Balboa Cafe.

Bader was supposed to undergo imaging on Tuesday for the organization to learn the extent of the injuries suffered in the crash, but they had yet to make those results available as of Friday.

Bader was already not traveling with the team because of his long-term injury status, and he did not accompany the club on its current road trip that began Thursday. He visited a foot and ankle specialist in Indianapolis on Monday for a scheduled appointment about his plantar fasciitis, but the “impact of [the crash] changed the nature of his evaluation,” the Giants said in a statement Tuesday.

Those within the organization are searching for more details, just like the public.

Bader has not reached out to his teammates, nor vice versa, team sources told the Post. While Vitello said Friday that he was satisfied with his understanding of the circumstances that led to the crash “from talking to our people and talking to him,” he initially said that Bader “didn’t share a lot of details with me.”

Additionally, one anonymous source cited by The Athletic said that Bader had “not fully cooperated” as the team tries to get to the bottom of what happened. Vitello added that Bader has been at the ballpark at the same time as the team twice since the incident but only during games “so all I’ve seen are pictures.”

The outfielder, batting .170 with a .557 OPS, was earning $7.5 million this season and is owed another $13 million in 2027.