Mets’ Bobby Bonilla Day somehow has millions of dollars still to go in crazy contract

Every year when Bobby Bonilla Day rolls around, the thought occurs: This has to be close to the end of it, right?

Wrong.

The 2025 celebration of Bobby Bonilla Day still leaves a decade to go in the festivities. 

For the uninitiated: Every year on July 1, the former New York Mets star gets paid $1,193,248.20.

It's part of what was called a $29 million contract in 1991. By 2000, when the Mets chose to release Bonilla, then owner Bernie Madoff decided in the buyout it'd be better to defer paying Bonilla the $5.9 million he was still owed across 25 years (2011-2035) with eight percent interest.

So this will go on until 2035.

As of 2025, the Mets have now made this payment to Bonilla on 16 occasions. He has made more than $19 million off the deferred money deal so far, and has 2026-2035 still remaining.

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Bonilla was born on Feb. 23, 1963. He's 62 as of July 1, 2025. And he's still well-paid by Major League Baseball.

He was a good MLB player, a switch-hitter who batted .279 in his career with 2,010 hits and 287 home runs. Bonilla made six All-Star teams and won a World Series with the Marlins.

In his five seasons with the Mets specifically, Bonilla hit .270 with 95 homers.

But here we are almost a quarter-century from the time Bonilla retired from baseball after a failed stint with the Cardinals in 2001. And Bonilla's bank account just grew quite a bit when the calendar flipped to July, just like it still will for another decade.

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