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>July 1 is Bobby Bonilla's day to get paid by Mets
>By Matt Snyder | Baseball Writer
>July 1, 2013 9:05 pm ET
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>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. That's due to a deferral clause from when the Mets
>bought out the final year of Bonilla's contract before the
>2000 season.
>The deal was signed by the Marlins in 1996, but Bonilla was
>traded to the Dodgers in the 1998 blockbuster that involved
>Gary Sheffield and Mike Piazza. Bonilla was later flipped to
>the Mets. 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.
>And now they'll be paying him a bit more than four times that
>-- just stretched out over 25 years.