Bobby Bonilla Day is an opportunity to poke fun at the Mets, but the deal is the reason the team ended up with one of its all-time greats.

Bobby Bonilla Day' is a yearly reminder of a unique and often laughed-at deal the New York Mets made.Even though Bonilla hasn't played for them in years, he still gets paid $1.19 million every year until he turns 72.

Thursday was orientation at the University of South Florida, a sea of rising freshmen and their families, and somehow no one noticed the guy who’s the 16th-highest-paid player on the New York Mets’ 2025 payroll.