Assuming the coronavirus pandemic allows for a normal season in 2021 the Los Angeles Dodgers will owe three of their players—Clayton Kershaw, Mookie Betts and Kenley Jansen—around $75 million combined. The Tampa Bay Rays rarely pay that much to their entire roster.
Yet these two franchises, who operate on opposite ends of the sport’s disparate financial spectrum, now find themselves in the exact same place: squaring off for a championship in the World Series after posting the best records in their respective leagues.
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