Complex sentence: Bonilla is currently being paid approximately $1.19 million by the New York Mets each year, as part of a deal made when the Mets released Bonilla before the 2000 season and still owed him $5.9 million for the final year of his contract.
Split into simpler sentences: Bonilla is currently being paid approximately $1.19 million by the New York Mets each year. This was part of a deal made when the Mets released Bonilla before the 2000 season while still owing him $5.9 million for the final year of his contract.