[HoulihansTX]

When the Mets cut bait with Bonilla after the 1999 season, they were on the hook for $5.9 million. Instead, the Mets agreed to pay Bonilla $29.8 million between 2011 and 2035. Those annual $1,193,248.20 payments begin July 1.

Bobby is also being paid $500,000 annually by the Orioles, from a similar buyout. He also holds a position with MLBPA, as a "special assistant", which pays him $200,000 yearly. When a secretary was asked about what Bobby's job entails she said, "He just talks to players".

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Safe to say that this guy is my hero. I never saw him play, and you never hear about him holding any significant records. But its safe to say that he was in the right place @ the right time. Rumor is the Mets used the money that they were initially going to pay Bobby to invest with Madoff.

Obviously that worked out well for the Mets.

And dont bash my hero Bonilla. He didnt do anything wrong. This whole fiasco is purely the work of typical Mets mismanagement.

[TRE1968]

man he is set up for a while

[LGHT]

Wow talk about a negotiator!! The old don't pay me $1 now pay me $10 later trick!! hahaah kudos!

[Reds_FAN]

If someone offered me that deal I would sign in a minute, good for him and stupid on the Mets part.

[BiffTFinancial]

Mets thought they could parlay that $5.9 mil with Madoff and have more than enough to pay Bonilla with it. the best laid plans....

[HoulihansTX]

Mets are the Brandon Lang of MLB

[Dad]

Mets are the Brandon Lang of MLB

Bonilla made $52 million as a player and he will make $30 million after retirement because the Mets are idiots.

[Duby]

Wow that is sick

[wtt0315]

wow least one player was smart. My mets are dumbfks.

[wtt0315]

if i would of signed that deal i would of been killed new years eve of 2011 knowing my luck

[floridagolfer]

The next time I hear the commissioner say the owners need another revenue stream and so we need to add another round of playoffs, I'd like to scream in his face, "No, you idiot, just get some owners who have a brain."

[BRAVES1985]

ya i heard this in the offseason

mets

[gafl]

Now what Bonilla said when he first joined the Mets is really true. "Nobody will ever be able to wipe this smile off my face".

[unusialsusp5]

mets must have thought the world was going to end before they had to pay him...