Former San Francisco Giants outfielder Mac Williamson sued the team for a concussion he suffered while stumbling on oracle Park’s bullpen mound in 2018.
Williamson chasing a fake ball when he fell and hit his head opposite the wall along the third baseline.
According to Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle, the 30-year-old argues that the franchise “maintained a damaging threat to players by having the mounds in the box and did not move them to a safer place even after they were given the injured players. “
Schulman shared one of the Giants:
<< MLB and its clubs have a long-standing practice of dealing with claims arising from player injuries, the jointly negotiated grievance procedure and the workers' payment system.
“Williamson’s claims are resolved very well through those processes, through the courts. “
The concussion occurred in San Francisco’s 4-3 victory over the Washington Nationals on April 24, 2018, and was lost just over a month before returning to the field.
However, he argues in the lawsuit that “it has been the same since he suffered the injury. “
“The concussion ended my career and left me with lifetime injuries that also had a significant effect on my private life,” he said. “I suffer from nausea, sleep disorders, mood swings and other problems.
“I wake up every day in the hope that today will be a better day and that I will get closer to what I felt before the injury. “
According to Schulman, Williamson claimed he had a verbal exchange with former Giants owner Peter Magowan about the bullpen, who said the commissioner at the time, Bud Selig, said the mounds were harmful when the Giants first opened Oracle Park, the team still maintained them.
Last December, the Giants announced that they were moving their bullpens and hitting the wall in midfield:
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