The Bottom Line

The Rangers took the World Series last night with a 5-0 win over the Diamondbacks. Consider what that means, White Sox fans. The team that started the season with the ninth-highest payroll in baseball won it all. Corey Seager, he of the $325 million contract, was named Series MVP, while his highly paid teammate Marcus Semien didn’t do too badly either, hitting .292 with two homeruns and eight RBIs. Jerry Reinsdorf might say, what will happen in the second half of those contracts Seager and Semien signed? Fair enough, but the best answer to that is, what happened to the Sox after their Series win in 2005? Zero return appearances, that’s what. This was the Rangers’ third World Series appearance in fourteen years. You know what’s worse than losing a World Series? Not appearing in one.