Playoff Payrolls: 2 Missing Dodgers Nearly Total Rays’ Money

Playoff Payrolls: 2 Missing Dodgers Nearly Total Rays’ Money
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw throws to an Arizona Diamondbacks batter during the first inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles on Sept. 13, 2021. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo
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Two missing Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers, Trevor Bauer and Clayton Kershaw, earn nearly as much as the entire Tampa Bay Rays’ major league roster heading into the playoffs.

The defending champion Dodgers enter the postseason with more than three times the payroll of the Rays, the team they beat in last year’s World Series.