Mets paying Bobby Bonilla 30 million over the next 25 yr. Wait What.
Posted on 27. Apr, 2010 at 2:13 pm by SKI in Baseball, MLB Baseball, New York Mets
Hey, New York Mets fans, think things couldn’t get any worse? Next year former outfielder Bobby Bonilla goes back on the payroll at the ripe old age of 48.
In 1999, Bonilla returned to the Mets for a second stint at Shea following his borderline disastrous free-agent signing in 1992. Bonilla wasn’t any better the second time around, so the Mets waived him in 2000. The problem was that the team still owed Bonilla $5.9 million in guaranteed salary.
Bonilla’s agents worked out a deal with the Mets where he would defer the salary if the team would pay him $1,193,248.20 every July 1 from 2011 to 2035. Not a bad deal for someone who was so bad the team basically paid him to go away.
Gotta love the Mets front office now and then, just making great moves everywhere you look. Not only did Bobby B go from 5.9 million to 29 mil, but they have to add that onto their payroll. If they have to have him on their payroll they might as well put him back on the roster. Have you looked at the Mets lineup. Tell me Bonilla couldn’t be hitting cleanup for the Mets right now. I see him dropping 20 bombs this year, which is more than anyone on the Mets will. So keep thinking that you are relevant Mets fans, but when these kind of deals are made by your front office you have to know you have no chance of winning.
On a side note I need to find out who his agent was, because if he can swindle this kind of a deal out of the Mets I need him when we make it huge and it’s contract time.
5 Responses to “Mets paying Bobby Bonilla 30 million over the next 25 yr. Wait What.”
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Meerkat
27. Apr, 2010
That is absolutely priceless.
If I were a multi-millionaire, I’d pay some big-smiling black brother to walk around Citi Field for each Mets home game wearing a throwback Bobby Bonilla jersey.
3D
27. Apr, 2010
It’s genius b/c he basically got a risk free, guaranteed 7% on his 5.9 mil for 25 years and paid out over those years so he can’t blow it all at once.
+2 points for Bobby Bo
El Rey
27. Apr, 2010
Just the Mets being the Mets.
This post just screams out for ski to put up clips of the Bonilla v Garvey Cheap Seats.
goodplaye
27. Apr, 2010
nice pic of the brilliant GM of the Mets there. Funny that isn’t the worst move he’s made.
SKI
27. Apr, 2010
I already have the Bobby Bo Cheap Seats somewhere on one of the earlier posts, but I think it’s tim to bring back the daily Cheap Seats