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On January 29, 2023, Novak Djokovic found his way to a 22nd Grand Slam, bringing this year’s drama-filled Australian Open to an end. For two weeks, players from across the globe gathered in Melbourne, Australia. Lifted bans, new rules, late-night matches, and more littered the headlines of the first Grand Slam event of the year.

For many baseball fans, the allure of Opening Day is up there with Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July. Spring is in the air, and all thirty fan bases are told that the coming season might be theirs to win it all. Yet, with the growing payroll disparity between MLB’s richest and poorest franchises, many teams – by virtue of their reduced spending capacity – did not have a legitimate shot to contend for a World Series when the 2023 season began a few weeks ago.