It's July 1, so that means Bobby Bonilla got a check for $1,193,248.20 today, just as he will every July 1 through 2035. He then only played 60 games in 1999, hitting .160/.277/.303, so the Mets saw fit to get rid of him before the 2000 season instead of paying him $5.9 million that year. This is all due to a deferral clause from when the Mets bought out the final year of Bonilla's contract before the 2000 season. And now they'll be paying him a bit more than four times that -- just stretched out over 25 years. So Happy Bobby Bonilla Day to all of you. I bet his 4th of July parties are the shit.
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