For the 16th straight year, the Mets are paying Bonilla $1.19 million on July 1 due to one of the most bizarre deals in sports history.
After Bonilla, now 63, hit just .160 across 60 games for the Mets in 1999, the team decided to buy out his deal in January 2000 and agreed to defer the remaining $5.9 million sum with 8 percent interest spread across 2011-2035.
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