The Possible End of Deferred Contracts

🫧 Open on Bubbles [I’m sure some greedy owners will find something new and dumb to amuse us.] Today is once again Bobby Bonilla Day , the day when retired Major Leaguer Bobby Bonilla gets $1.19 million dollars from the New York Mets. That happens despite Bonilla last playing for the team in 1999, and retiring from baseball altogether in 2001. Such is the ridiculousness of deferred contracts, which will also see the Dodgers paying Shohei Ohtani $68 million a year from 2034 to 2043 . It appears the tactic may