Bobby Bonilla ‘took the Mets to the woodshed’ with his lucrative 25-year deal
Bobby Bonilla of the New York Mets looks on before a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on May 15, 1999 at Shea Stadium in New York.
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Bobby Bonilla, who retired as a baseball player in 2001, hasn’t played for the New York Mets since 1999.
Yet Bonilla is among the highest-paid position players on the Mets’ payroll this year.
The team paid the…