Happy Bobby Bonilla Day

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Copied from another site here’s a partial list of deferred salaries in baseball at the moment. It’s a long list.



The Atlanta Braves paid Bruce Sutter 1.12mil/yr from 1989 through 2021 and a lump sum balloon of 9.1mil in 2022. This has been going since 1985 and with the lump sum will be both a longer and more expensive deferred contract than Bobby Bonilla’s
The Baltimore Orioles will ALSO pay Bobby Bonilla 500k/yr through 2028
Orioles also paying Chris Davis 3.5mil/yr each July 1 from 2023-2032, and $1.4mil/yr from 2033-2035
Orioles also paying Darren O’day 1mil/yr from 2020-2023
Orioles also paying Alex Cobb 5mil/yr from 2022-2025.
Orioles also paying Mark Trumbo 1.5mil/yr through 2022
Orioles also paying Andrew Cashner 1.5mil/yr through 2022
Orioles also paying Ubaldo Jimenez 2.25mil/yr through 2022
The Boston Red Sox will pay Dustin Pedroia 2mil/yr from 2021-2024 and 2.5mil/yr 2025-2028
Red Sox also paying Chris Sale $10mil/yr from 2035-2039, add’l 5mil in 2040 if they exercise 2025 option
Red Sox also paying Manny Ramirez 1.9mil+2.5% interest through 2026
Red Sox also paying Adam Ottavino 3mil in 2022
The Cincinnati Reds will pay Bronson Arroyo 1.3mil/yr through 2021
The Reds also paying Ken Griffey Jr. 3.5mil/yr through2024
The Colorado Rockies will pay Todd Helton 1.3mil/yr with 3% interest through 2024
Rockies also paying Vinny Castilla 106k/yr from 2015-2029
The Chicago Cubs will pay Jason Heyward 5mil/yr from 2024-2027
The Houston Astros will pay Zack Greinke 12.5mil/year from 2022-2026 (Deferral traded with Grienke from the Dbacks.)
The Los Angeles Angels will pay Albert Pujols 10mil/yr for 10 years upon either his retirement or the end of his contract.
The Los Angeles Dodgers paying Freddie Freeman 4.75mil/yr from 2028-2040
The Miami Marlins will pay Wei-yin Chen an average of 12mil/yr through 2022
Marlins will also pay Giancarlo Stanton $10mil/yr from 2026-2028
The Milwaukee Brewers will pay Ryan Braun 1.8mil/yr from 2022-2031
The Brewers also paying Lorenzo Cain 1mil/yr from 2023-2027
The Brewers also paying Matt Garza 2mil/yr through 2021
The Brewers also paying Christian Yelich 2.5mil/year from 2031-2042, more if mutual option exercised.
The New York Mets will pay Bret Saberhagen 250k/yr through 2028
The Mets also paying Bobby Bonilla 1.19mil/yr through 2035
The Mets also paying Jeurys Familia 2mil in 2022
The Mets will also pay Jacob DeGrom an average of 13.5mil/yr from 2035-2039, less if 2024 option declined.
The Mets would have paid David Wright 2mil/yr from 2021-2023, 2.5% interest also due 2023 but renegotiated as part of his retirement.
The Mets also paying Francisco Lindor $5mil/yr from 2032-2041.
The Mets also paid Johan Santana $5mil/yr from 2014-2020.
The Oakland A’s will pay Trevor Rosenthal $3mil/yr from 2022-2023.
The San Francisco Giants will pay Mark Melancon 1mil/yr from 2021-2028.
Giants also paying Anthony DeSclafani $3mil in 2022.
The Seattle Mariners will pay Ichiro 25mil total through 2032 with 5.5% interest (exact details unknown.)
The St. Louis Cardinals will pay Matt Holliday 1.4mil/yr through 2029
The Cardinals also paid Jim Edmongs 3mil/yr from 2010 through 2019
The Texas Rangers are still paying Alex Rodriguez through 2025, but exact terms are unknown due to their 2010 bankruptcy. He was due $26mil at time of the bankruptcy.
The Toronto Blue Jays will pay Troy Tulowitzki 500k+3% interest from 2025-2034
The Washington Nationals will pay Rafael Soriano 2mil/yr through 2024
Nationals also paying Matt Wieters 5mil in 2021
Nationals also paying Stephen Strasburg 10mil/yr from 2024-2030
Nationals also paying Daniel Murphy 3mil in 2020
Nationals also paying Max Scherzer 15mil/yr from 2022-2028
Nationals will pay Ryan Zimmerman 10mil/yr for 5 years from whenever his playing career ends
Nationals also paying Patrick Corbin 3.3mil/yr from 2024-2026
Nationals also paying Brian Dozier 2mil in 2020
Nationals also paying Anibal Sanchez 2mil in 2021
Nationals also paying Brad Hand 2.167mil from 2022-2024