Before he and his contract became the living embodiment of LOLMets, Bonilla was a very good ballplayer—and worth just about every dollar he was paid, until the Mets decided to defer his final payday with them. FiveThirtyEight has more:
, Baseball-Reference.com’s Hall of Fame metric of choice.) But he’s gotten a bad rap over the years for his falling-out with the Mets and the deferred contract.
From humble beginnings in the game, Bonilla beat the odds to become one of its best players during his prime, even playing well after the Mets made him baseball’s highest-paid star. It’s amusing and absurd to think of Bonilla being paid $1.19 million every year by the Mets until he’s 72 years old, but that fact shouldn’t overshadow the rest of his career.
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