Bobby Bonilla Will Earn More Than Any Mets Outfielder in 2013

All, Baseball Ty Duffy February 19th. 2013, 4:33pm

The Mets are cutting costs. After hitting a peak of $149 million during the 2009 season, New York’s daft younger sibling has cut back to $84 million. Even that paltry number inflates the true situation.

New York has more than $19 million going to players not playing for them, dropping the real payroll to $64.5 million. Of that $64.5 million, $36.5 million (57 percent) is being spent on Johan Santana and David Wright. Only eight other players have salaries that will reach seven figures.

The Mets’ highest paid outfielder is Jason Bay; they paid $21 million to buy him out in the offseason. Their second-highest paid outfielder is Bobby Bonilla, earning $1.19 million per year in deferred payments through 2035.

Not all is amiss in Mets land. Citi Field does have a Shake Shack. The trouble is one could spend a lovely afternoon at any other Shake Shack location and not be helping the Wilpons make up their Madoff losses.

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38 Responses to “Bobby Bonilla Will Earn More Than Any Mets Outfielder in 2013”

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jim Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:37 PM
The trouble is one could spend a lovely afternoon at any other Shake Shack location and not be helping the Wilpons make up their Madoff losses.
Maybe, but my guess is that the Shake Shack at CitiField will probably have the shortest lines.
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starkweather Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:38 PM
RELATED: Bobby Bonilla is still the Mets best OF
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GloriousMullet Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:39 PM
The Mets are still paying him? How much is Mookie Wilson and Keith Hernandez making?
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The White Frank White Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:40 PM
RELATED: i could manage this team better.
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:46 PM
need to ditch the black in the color scheme.
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Caribou Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:47 PM
This whole story of still being n the hook for Bonilla makes the Mets those lovable losers we know and love.
/Bonilla sucks left hind teat and always did
//stilled pissed he somehow wormed a WS ring while with the Marlins
///And Van Slyke still the best OF on that PIT team in the late 80s – early 90s
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arkbadger Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:48 PM
The Mets are still paying him? How much is Mookie Wilson and Keith Hernandez making?
they took their payments in piles of coke back in 91.
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starkweather Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:49 PM
///And Van Slyke still the best OF on that PIT team in the late 80s – early 90s
I’ll take the egomaniacal prick with the bad skin on my team, you can have Van Slyke.
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sweett310 Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:50 PM
Sooo…any posts on Mayweather today? Fighting one of his most dangerous opponents in a long while? Jumping ship from HBO and completely changing the landscape of American boxing business in a single move? No? Nothing?
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:50 PM
Bobby Bonilla, earning $1.19 million per year in deferred payments through 2035.
this guy has to be one of the savviest athletes ever. Others are going broke and he’s gonna be cashing a million dollar check each year until he’s 70 years old.
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jayhawk88 Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:52 PM
Do you suppose there are account execs at JG Wentworth that dream of the day Bobby Bonilla gives them a call?
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Jay V Of Considerable Influence Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:53 PM
/And Van Slyke still the best OF on that PIT team in the late 80s – early 90s
Ummmmm…no.
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ButtersBC Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:53 PM
I still think the contract was clever on the Mets part, they just blew it by not using the more valuable funds at the time to sign good players
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knitty Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:53 PM
Maybe they thought Bonilla wouldnt be alive by 2013… also Steve Phillips was the GM (enough said) so he needed the money to pay Todd Ziele and Mike Hampton outrageous contracts… plus werent they making over the 8% IR with Madoff investments?
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squawkbox Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:56 PM
Florida Atlantic University stadium naming rights going to a prison company.
Makes perfect sense to me.
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:56 PM
Sooo…any posts on Mayweather today? Fighting one of his most dangerous opponents in a long while? Jumping ship from HBO and completely changing the landscape of American boxing business in a single move? No? Nothing?
this is an MMA Ring Girl blog.
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scripty Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:58 PM
/And Van Slyke still the best OF on that PIT team in the late 80s – early 90s
John Cangelosi and Cecil Espy, lines 1 & 2
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johndewar Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:58 PM
/And Van Slyke still the best OF on that PIT team in the late 80s – early 90s
Ummmmm…no.
Barry Lamar Bonds thinks he was pretty good when he played in Pittsburgh.
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scripty Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 4:59 PM
I think the Arizona Diamondbacks that will be paying out a few guys like Mark Grace and Jay Bell til 2060 or something. However, they at least got a WS out of it.
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ms621 Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:02 PM
RELATED: i could manage this team better.
Any of us could manage a baseball team.
/fetch
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s1rweeze Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:08 PM
All these names bring me back to the days of getting a Mike LaValliere card in every freaking pack I opened.
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hussler2 Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:13 PM
///And Van Slyke still the best OF on that PIT team in the late 80s – early 90s
Good lord.
“And I still think Horace Grant was the best player on the Jordan era Bulls”
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hussler2 Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Also, Shake Shack is a great example of something introduced to New York City about 5-10 years after a strong contingent of the country has already experienced it, and NYC thinking it’s the greatest fucking thing since midget porn.
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Jason McIntyre Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:17 PM
love
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Jay V Of Considerable Influence Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:17 PM
Also, Shake Shack is a great example of something introduced to New York City about 5-10 years after a strong contingent of the country has already experienced it, and NYC thinking it’s the greatest fucking thing since midget porn.
I’m not following what you are talking about. Shake Shack STARTED in NYC. 9 years ago. I don’t know what your point is.
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mizerle06 is sarah phillips Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:19 PM
Sooo…any posts on Mayweather today? Fighting one of his most dangerous opponents in a long while? Jumping ship from HBO and completely changing the landscape of American boxing business in a single move? No? Nothing?
who and what?
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A.P. Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:21 PM
Jay V with the shake shack win
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ms621 Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:21 PM
Also, Shake Shack is a great example of something introduced to New York City about 5-10 years after a strong contingent of the country has already experienced it, and NYC thinking it’s the greatest fucking thing since midget porn.
Well, we learned something new about hussler2 today.
/adds to spreadsheet that he likes midget porn
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Shining Base Path Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:24 PM
How much are they paying sidd finch?
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Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:25 PM
Did I miss any BA top 100 talk? Or was it basically just a Bundy/Profar jackoff session?
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VladimirCrouton Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:29 PM
Or was it basically just a Bundy/Profar jackoff session?
Bauer/Lindor > Bundy/Profar
/kidding
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hussler2 Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:35 PM
I’m not following what you are talking about. Shake Shack STARTED in NYC. 9 years ago. I don’t know what your point is.
Not Shake Shack per se, but the idea of that type of burger place as “new” when established places like in N Out and Five Guys had been in existence for years serving a very similar type of burger / fare.
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hussler2 Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:36 PM
I don’t know what your point is.
Felt similarly about Scott Machado and Terrence Williams
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hussler2 Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:41 PM
Another way to read it would be:
“Shake Shack serves In N Out burgers in Manhattan in 2004. Best Burger of the Year awarded less than a year later.”
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starkweather Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:49 PM
Or was it basically just a Bundy/Profar jackoff session?
Bundy was robbed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jay V Of Considerable Influence Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:51 PM
Not Shake Shack per se, but the idea of that type of burger place as “new” when established places like in N Out and Five Guys had been in existence for years serving a very similar type of burger / fare.
I don’t agree with this at all. Five Guys didn’t start franchising until 2004, and to that point was strictly a DC thing. In N Out is just a regional phenomenon —one that seems to have exploded in more widespread popularity really only in the last 10 years.
Plus, while Shake Shack’s burgers are certainly part of the attraction, they do a healthy piece of their business in shakes. I don’t think Five Guys (which doesn’t even serve shakes) or In N Out are the best comparisons.
I’m not trying to say that Shake Shack was some sort of revolutionary concept, or even that the phenomenon that you initially described vis a vis NYC and trends doesn’t exist. I just think that this particular example is a poor one.
Also…Shake Shack is far superior to the always overrated In N Out.
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Jay V Of Considerable Influence Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 5:55 PM
Felt similarly about Scott Machado and Terrence Williams
Did you feel similarly about Paul George or Jrue Holliday, both of whom I spoke just as crazy effusively about? You’re right sometimes, you’re wrong sometimes. I don’t get paid for my basketball opinions, thankfully.
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starkweather Says:
February 19th, 2013 at 6:03 PM
Shake Shack is far superior to the always overrated In N Out.
I’ve never had Shake Shack but can definitely agree In N Out is pretty overrated. It’s a really great fast food burger – it’s as cheap as or cheaper than McDonald’s and the like – but it would rank somewhere around my 30th favorite burger in L.A. And I’ve got the gut to proof that I know what I’m saying.

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