Several legendary retired baseball players continue to receive massive annual payments from former teams due to unique deferred compensation structures written into their historic contracts. Most famously, former Washington Nationals and New York Mets star Max Scherzer, along with iconic slugger Bobby Bonilla—whose famous annual July 1 payout from the New York Mets has become an unofficial holiday for baseball fans—receive substantial guaranteed checks every single year long after hanging up their cleats, thanks to contracts designed with zero-interest deferred installments.