Bobby Bonilla, Los Angeles Dodgers (Vincent Laforet /Allsport)
On Bobby Bonilla Day, remembering the Dodgers trade that sent him back to New York.
Bobby Bonilla makes the headlines every July 1 for a peculiar reason: the former slugger is still getting paid by the New York Mets for a contract they deferred back in 2000.
While it sounds ridiculous – the Mets are paying Bobby Bonilla twenty years after he left the team? – there was a business reason for the Mets’ decision.