After the Mets successfully took the road advantage away from the Dodgers by winning yesterday in Los Angeles, the Guardians will seek to do the same to the Yankees in New York. They are seen as the plucky underdogs in terms of payroll, though it helps being in the AL Central. On Opening Day, the highest payroll in that division belonged to... um, the White Sox, and they were all the way down in fifteenth spot. The truth is, you don’t need as much resources to compete there, as you do in other divisions. For example, the NL East had three of the top eight payrolls.