It's Bobby Bonilla Day! Why New York Mets still pa...

According to ESPN News, it's Bobby Bonilla Day again. The former infielder last played for the New York Mets in nineteen ninety-nine, but the team continues to write him a check every July first. Bonilla negotiated a unique deferred-compensation package that pays him a million dollars annually through twenty thirty-five. It's become one of baseball's strangest rituals: a player who departed decades ago still cashing paychecks from his former team, a testament to one very shrewd contract negotiation.

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