Here is how much the Brewers are still paying Ryan Braun and for how long

Despite the fact that his career wound up as one that was mired with controversy, Ryan Braun will forever be viewed as one of the greatest Milwaukee Brewers of all-time. He's the franchise's leader in home runs while being second in RBI, SLG, OPS and doubles.

He's got his name scattered all over the club's all-time leaderboards and he's also a Rookie of the Year, six-time All-Star and former NL MVP. Braun is a classic "what if" case. What if he never took PEDs or what if he never dealt with injuries? We could be talking about a player headed for Cooperstown.

Braun signed a pair of lengthy contract extensions that ultimately kept him in Milwaukee through the end of his storied career. The second deal, a five-year, $105 million pact, came with a few little-known asterisks that would make Bobby Bonilla, Ken Griffey Jr. and (more recently) Shohei Ohtani, proud.

Details of Ryan Braun's deferred contract with the Brewers

In a small note that has flown under-the-radar since the ink on this deal dried, Braun is going to be paid $1.8 million by the Brewers every July 1 through 2031. That date is usually known around the baseball community as "Bobby Bonilla Day", but it's the very same day that Braun gets his payout as well as others who have deferred money on their contracts left after their playing days came to an end.

The ex-Brewers superstar agreed to structure his deal this way simply to leave the Brewers more money to play with during the years he took the field for them. Taking a smaller amount of money during his playing days so the team can surround him with star power was a big-brain move, and it's also got him making steady money well into his retirement.

Obviously, Ohtani is the face of contract deferrals by now. The two-way phenom signed a record-shattering 10-year, $700 million contract with a whopping $68 million per year deferred until the life of the contract runs out. At that point, the remaining money owed to him will be paid out from 2034 to 2043.

Lorenzo Cain's contract that ran through 2022 also includes deferrals that will see him make $1 million per year through 2027. Another past example of this from the Brewers was Matt Garza's dud of a contract that saw him make $2 million through 2021 despite the fact that his playing career ended in 2017.

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